4Miranda (3/7/2006)

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Yes, I'm really new to GenoPro, and the forum, and don't have much time to figure all this out.  I'm wondering how I should be using the display tags and if they can be a symbol rather than text.  Tried using them to indicate certain characteristics that I wanted to track in a family, but have no idea if thats possible. Thanks ahead of time for any help.

I don't quite get precisely what are you talking about... Text indicates label for person/item, and it's not (let say) vise not to have label.

http://www.genopro.com/medical_genograms/ .

Note: You might decide to have use for those other then mentioned on the page, and you can describe their meaning through "legend" item available in later betas.

and for the HOW part:

Open one's properties, under "Display" you'll see medical symbols on the left, and possible coulourings on the right side...

Just for the future reference: It was all allready mentioned in the forum... so for the future, please, try keyword search... you might get your answers much sooner...

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"εν οιδα οτι ουδεν οιδα" (Σωκρατησ)  - "The only thing that I know is that I don't know anything" (Socrates)

Thanks, and yes, now  I know about medical genograms. Earlier I didn't connect them with social behavior so was attempting to see if a display tag would work and when I customized a tag with a social behavior, it showed up as text above the individual's gender symbol.  From what you said, that must be a "label".  Didn't know what that was, either.  So what are display tags used for?  My new problem is that I don't know how to do a medical legend.  Where do I explain why part of a symbol is colored the way it is? Guess I'll try key word search.  Thanks for the info.

This is fairly simple to set up once you know how

1. Right click on an empty area of the Genogram and select 'New Text Label
2. Create a new individual (male or female) and drag the symbol into position within the text box
3. Double click on the symbol to bring up the properties box and select the 'Display' tag
4. Select the appropriate quadrant colours/border outlines
5. Go to the 'Report' tag and click on 'Make Label / Exclude from Report (use this option to create a legend)'
6. Click on the 'OK' button to exit the Properties box
7. Double click on the text box outline and you can then modify the text and various other options for the text box
8. Press the 'OK' button to exit

If everything has worked OK, you will end up with something like this:

Good Luck!