Drag and Drop in Reunion
Note: see the chapter Correcting Mistakes to learn about dragging and dropping people to the Clipboard to fix mistakes, such as a child in the wrong family or a spouse linked to the wrong person.
What Can Be Dragged and Dropped?
Each of the following sections begin with an item that can be dragged, together with a list of destinations where each item can be dropped and a brief explanation of the resulting action.
Person buttons (child, husband/wife, parent)...
- To the Home button, to designate them as the home family.
- Into the word "Relatives" in the Sidebar list to identify all his relatives.
- Into the word "Treetops" in the Sidebar list to identify all his treetops.
- Into the word "Ages" in the Sidebar list to show his Ages report in the sidebar.
- To the Relatives sidebar to identify all his relatives.
- To the Treetops sidebar to identify all his treetops.
- To the Ages sidebar to show his Ages report in the sidebar.
Names in any sidebar or List window...
- To the Home button, to designate them as the home family.
- Into the word "Relatives" in the Sidebar list to identify all his relatives.
- Into the word "Treetops" in the Sidebar list to identify all his treetops.
- Into the word "Ages" in the Sidebar list to show the Ages report in the sidebar.
- To the Relatives sidebar to identify all his relatives.
- To the Treetops sidebar to identify all his treetops.
- To the Ages sidebar to show his Ages report in the sidebar.
Places from the Places sidebar...
- To place fields in the family view (under the husband or wife button).
- To place fields in the Edit Person or Edit Family panel.
- To another place in the Places sidebar to merge both places.
Source records...
- To the Sources sidebar or List window.
- To the Marriage button.
- To any Person button in the family view.
- To a list of children in the family view.
- To the Edit Person panel: name, event, fact, and note fields.
- To the Edit Family panel: marriage, event, and note fields.
- To the Edit Family/Children panel - This adds a general source to the target child in the list.
Source records can also be dragged and dropped from one family file to another family file, automatically creating a new source record and citation. For example, in family file A you'd drag a source record from the Sources sidebar (or List window) and then drop it in family file B...
Addresses of web pages (URLs or .webloc files)...
- To the Sources sidebar or List window.
- To the list of Source Fields in the Source window.
- To the Marriage button.
- To any Person button in the family view.
- To a list of children in the family view.
- To the list of citations in the Edit Person panel.
- To the Edit Person panel: name, event, and fact fields.
- To the Edit Person panel, note field - In this case the actual URL is added to the person's note field; rather than creating a new source record.
- To the Edit Family panel: marriage and event fields.
- To the Edit Family panel: note field - In this case the actual URL is added in the family notes field; rather than creating a new source record.
- To the Edit Family/Children panel - This adds a general source to the target child in the list.
Addresses of web pages (URLs or .webloc files) can also be dragged and dropped from a web browser into a family file to create a new source record and citation. For example, if a web page relates to somebody in your family file (marriage record, birth announcement, obituary, etc.), you can view the page in your web browser and then drag it's address (from the address field at the top of the web browser) and drop that into your family file in Reunion...
Text in any field in Reunion (including text in text objects on charts)...
- To the desktop (where it becomes a text clipping).
- To open windows in other apps (for example, an email message or word processing document).
Files from the desktop or Finder...
GEDCOM files from the Finder (in any folder or on the Desktop)...
- To the Reunion application icon (to import a GEDCOM file).
Image thumbnails from Photos (Apple's app) or iPhoto (version 6 or newer)...
Image or multimedia files from the Finder (in any folder or on the Desktop)...
PDF files from the Finder (in any folder or on the Desktop)...
Images from a web browser...
- To any person's button in the family view.
- To the marriage field in the family view.
- To the Media window's thumbnail sidebar (left side).
- To the Multimedia sidebar.
- To the Multimedia section of the Source window.
- To a source in the Sources sidebar.
- To chart boxes and text objects.
- To the chart canvas.
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Thumbnails in the Media window or Multimedia sidebar...
- To boxes in charts.
- To a chart canvas.
- To open windows in other applications.
- To the Finder (to any folder or onto the Desktop).
- To children/parents on the same or a different family record.
- To a Multimedia window in another family file.
Text from open windows in other apps...
Text clippings from the desktop...
- To text fields in the Edit Person or Edit Family window.
- To chart boxes and text objects that are being edited.
- To the chart canvas (to create a new text object).
Pictures in charts...
- To chart boxes and text objects.
- To the chart canvas.
- To the trash in the Dock.
- To open windows in other applications.
Text objects in charts...
- To other charts.
- To the trash can in the Dock.
Boxes in charts...
- To the trash can in the Dock.
Perspective events in charts...
- To other charts.
- To the desktop.
- To the trash can in the Dock.
Note: dragging an object or any combination of selected objects from a chart to anywhere other than that chart will cause the items to be converted to PDF or TIFF depending on the destination.