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By bogistad - Friday, March 25, 2011
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My very first posting in this forum dealt with this issue and I still struggle to understand the reason.
I note that the field "Mobile Phone" has been added to the General panel along side Home Phone, Work Phone and Email. Once again I ask - why display these fields in such a prominent position on the first tab? For the relatively few individuals who would have this information in a family tree (98% in my tree are dead!) and for the even smaller number of GenoPro users who wish to use their family tree as a contact medium, why not just leave it in the Contact tab where it logically belongs and from where it can be used just as easily?
I would much prefer to see other fields such as Place of Birth, Place of Death, etc. which would be relevant to most individuals in a tree. Is there any way of making this area dynamic?
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By bogistad - Thursday, April 14, 2011
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I would appreciate if Dan or Jean-Claude could satisfy my curiosity on my post above..
Bob.
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By Norfolkian - Sunday, April 24, 2011
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I assume that there are distinct groups of Genopro users and the layout of the general tab is a compromise.
However I would put myself in the same group as yourself, I keep no contact information on my tree, so this area of the screen is redundant for me too. I do not use pictures either, so the largest screen area devoted to a single item is also redundant.
The best solution to this would be to have a graphical tool to design a custom properties tab that was displayed by default. So the user could place text boxes, image holders, etc. anywhere on the properties screen and assign them to field names. I fear this is a big ask, but it would allow users to optimize their experience when browsing the information behind the genogram.
Ian.
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By vlepore - Wednesday, May 4, 2011
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You could think of several General Dialog, similar to that of the version "Monica, " employed by different types of users a choice depending on their interests.
Proposals may be many, but I think with 3-4 different types could be satisfied over a wide area of users, depending on needs medical, historical, sociological, psychological or …of their work.
These summary folder, may be proposed on the panel "Tools/Options", and chosen by users according to their interests:
Display Genogram Dialog with a __ historical , __ medical, __ sociological or __ psychological approach.
For my needs, to build family trees mainly historical, I propose the following General Dialog:
Naturally expect further proposals!
Sorry for my English ...
Thanks.
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By jcmorin - Wednesday, May 4, 2011
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I agree with you, I'm not sure many people use those field that much, first that should be (at best) customizable or the most popular.
GenoPro is not build on a technology that would let easy make that customizable. Maybe another "General tab" the same way the Genogram tab exist could be replacement as option...
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By adriank888 - Monday, February 20, 2012
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Would like to see another field as above -place of birth would be great, at the moment I use second last name as place of birth as the two things I really need displayed are date of birth and place of birth
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By amfonda - Wednesday, January 15, 2014
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I would strongly support the above proposed changes to the General Tab display. Like the others, I use GenoPro exclusively for genealogy and the phone numbers, e-mail and picture fields are useless. I've been using GenoPro for nearly 10 years and have recommended it to many people. It serves my purposes very well but there are a few drawbacks, this being one. I would prefer to see "Place of Birth", "Place of Death" and a larger Comments field on the General Tab. Perhaps the idea of selectable custom modes, depending on your use profile, is the way to go. Thanks for the continued customer support.
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By Jakk - Thursday, November 6, 2014
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I was just thinking about something similar. I would much prefer to see place of birth, place of death, etc. on the general tab. Also, the "number of lines" control should be moved *from* the general tab to the display tab, so that we can set that property for multiple individuals at the same time. It's starting to look like GenoPro needs a significant rebuild for the next version (3.0?)... so we might as well get proper age-calculation support for BC dates in the process. I think I've been complaining about that one since I started using GenoPro back in 2008. 
There's more, but I'm already getting off-topic. 
Edit: One more relevant thing: Being able to include the job title / profession as part of the full name and display name would be brilliant! Right now, I use the Second Last Name field for such things, because it's visible and in parentheses by default. I would also love to have more options for the full name and display name; in a perfect world, all combinations would be allowable, using drag-and-drop rather than a pull-down menu with limited preset options. As it is, for my nobility and royalty genograms, I can't use the name suffix to indicate the ordinal (I, II, III, etc.) because I can't make the suffix display before the second last name (which is where I put the individual's royal or noble title, which would go in the Profession field if that could be included in the name). I really wish I had more current coding skills; if I did, I'd offer my services to help get started on the upgrade.
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