What Is a Custom Report Section?
Including Custom Sections in Reports, Books, and Web Projects
Editing Custom Sections...
- Names Sections
- Dates Sections
- Places Sections
- Facts Sections
- Flags Sections
How do Custom Sections Appear in...
- Word Processors?
- Book Projects?
- Web Projects?
Reunion can create custom report sections for books, web projects, and word processors. A custom report section (or custom section) is a compilation of information about a specific aspect of the report you’re creating. Custom sections are smaller reports within your main report - a report within your report. They are compiled based on the information (names, dates, places, facts, and flags) found in the main report.
Custom sections are optional. You can build reports which have no custom sections or reports with one or many different custom sections.
For example: You might want to list all the birthdays for the living people in your report, create an index of people grouped by Occupation or Education, or create a custom index of people with the Military flag checked.
Custom sections are enabled from the panel where each report is created. After clicking
in the navbar and selecting your desired report type (i.e., Book, Register, Person Sheet, Web Project, etc.), check the checkbox. This will enable the button.Most reports in Reunion support custom sections. To include custom sections in your report, click on the
button in Reunion's navbar on the left and select your desired report. Then check the checkbox and click the button to the right of the checkbox.The Custom Sections window allows you to create, select, and sort the custom sections that you want to include in your report.
When the Custom Sections window opens, you will see the number of custom sections selected for the report at the top-left, you'll see a list of the custom sections on the left, and the settings for the selected custom section on the right side of the window.
Check the checkbox to the left of each custom section you would like to include in your report. If you have included more than one custom section in your report, you can drag-and-drop the custom section in the list to achieve your desired order of sections.
All custom sections are available to all reports types that support custom sections. For example if you create a custom section for a register report - that same custom section will be available for the book and other types of reports that support custom sections.
The order and included sections are specific to each report type. This way you can have one set of custom sections included for one report and a different set of sections included for another report. The settings will be saved for each report type.
Reunion has already created a handful of custom sections for you to include in your reports. However, you may want to modify those custom sections or create new custom sections to suit your needs.
To create a new custom section, click on the
button at the bottom left of the sections list. A menu will appear, select the type of section you would like to create.Whether you created a new custom section or have selected an existing section, the following paragraphs describe the settings that appear for each custom section type on the right side of the window. The first two text fields apply to all section types...
Description: A description of the section to quickly remind you of what the custom section will contain. The custom section description appears in bold text for the entry in the list of sections.
Report title: This is the title that will appear at the top of page (the beginning) of the custom section in the report.
The remaining custom section settings are different depending on the type of the selected custom section.
Name sections will count the number of times a last name or first name & mid name appears in your main report. The names section type can be used to create a list showing the most frequently (or least frequently) used names and optionally show a date range for that name.
Settings for the names custom section are as follows...
Name: Name field that is used to build this section. Options are...
Include: Option to limit the scope of names that are counted. Options are...
Sort: Order in which the names are reported. Options are...
Date range: Optional date range to list with each name. Options are...
List: Use these options to create a shorter and more focused list of names. Options are...
Note: The Top n% and Bottom n% settings are for shortening large lists of names. If your report does not contain a lot of names these settings will have minimal or no impact and All names will be listed.
Dates sections will create a list of people arranged by their event dates. For example you might want to include a section listing the birthdays for living people.
Settings for the dates custom sections are as follows...
Sort: The order in in which the dates are presented. Options are...
Include: Option to include dates for all events or dates for selected events.
When
is checked, dates for all events included in the report will be listed in the section. When is unchecked, a list will appear and one or more events can be added to the list by clicking on the button - the button with the plus sign. Events can be removed from this list by selecting the event in the list and clicking the button - the button with the minus sign.List: Checking the
button will include the name of the event for each person listed in the section. This option is useful if more than one event or all events are included in the section. If only one event is included in the section then the button can be left unchecked and the event name can be incorporated into the report title.Prune: Option to limit the reporting to people who are living and people who are still married.
Places sections will create a list of people arranged by their event places. For example you might want to include a section listing the burial places.
Settings for the places custom sections are as follows...
Reverse place name sort: Each place entry is parsed into comma delimited items and then alphabetized, item by item, in reverse. Click here for more information. Options are...
Include: Option to include all event dates or just specific dates for birth, marriage, divorce, death, or burial.
Include: Option to include places for all events or places for selected events.
When
is checked, places for all events included in the report will be listed in the section. When is unchecked, a list will appear and one or more events can be added to the list by clicking on the button - the button with the plus sign. Events can be removed from this list by selecting the event in the list and clicking the button - the button with the minus sign.List: A menu of four options of how to list people under each place subtitle...
Prune: Option to limit the reporting to people who are living and people who are still married.
Facts sections will create a list of people arranged by the contents of their facts fields. For example you might want to include a custom section listing the occupation of the people in your report.
Settings for the facts custom sections are as follows...
Sort: The order in in which the facts are listed. Options are...
Include: What is included in this section...
Prune: Check the
checkbox to only include living people in the custom section.Flags sections will create an index of people that have a specific flag set. For example is you are using the Military flag, you can create a custom section that is an index to people in your report with the Military flag set.
Settings for the flags custom sections are as follows...
Include: Select the flag that must be set for a person to be included in this custom section.
Last name subtitles: Check this option to group people with the same last name under a last name subtitle.
Prune: Check the
checkbox to only include living people in the custom section.Note: | Unlike the other custom section types, flags do not need to be included in the main report for this custom section to be created. |
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For reports that have your word processor as the destination, the included custom sections will appear as a new page in the body of the report immediately before the index for the main report. If you have more than one custom section included in the report, the sections will be included in the report in the same order that they appear in the Custom Sections window for that report.
The Report title defined for each custom section will appear at the top of first page of each section.
People listed in the custom section will be cross-referenced in the same way as they are in the index for the main report. For example by register number in the register report.
For book reports, the included custom sections will appear as book sections (chapters) in the book project window.
The Report title defined for the custom section will appear at the top of the page and on the contents page for the book.
People listed in the custom section will have a clickable page number to the right of their name.
For reports that have a web-based destination, the included custom sections will be placed on a separate page in the web project.
The Report title defined for the custom section will appear at the top of page and on the contents page for the web project.
People listed in the custom section will be clickable to navigate to their entry in the report.