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I have tried to bodge a skin by removing all the report generator instructions in the config.xml for the various files except for the following
  </GenerationMessages>

  <Report Template="init.htm" />
  <Report Template="index.html" />
  <Report Template="FamilyNames.txt" />  
  <Report Template="home.htm" />
  <Report Template="heading.htm" />
  <Report Template="style.css" />
    
  <StartPage>index.html</StartPage>

  </ReportGenerator>

I am not sure which other ones I can safely remove.

I then removed all the associated files mentioned in the config.xml and it seemed to work without generating 41000 individual htms or 13000 family htms though all the photos and thumbnails were created so I will try removing these folders as well from the skin and see what that does.

I have attached the names list that I was looking for.

names.htm (1,594 views, 57.30 KB)

Edited: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 by IainTait

Well maybe we have both had a senior moment because the Narrative Report already produces such a file, i.e. complete A-Z Surname index (see link bottom of home page of report) in file toc_names.htm (e.g. http://familytrees.genopro.com/IainTait/Beath_-_Tait_Family_Tree/toc_names.htm)

the list is perfect for formatting

Adams, Alken
Barber, Barlow, Beevor, Bragg, Brereton, Bryan, Bush
Challenger, Clayton, Collier, Collins, Cussen
Donald
Eckstein, Edge, Edwards, Eldridge

etc.

All I need to do now is to ann the letters of the alfabet in an htm file as follows:-

   <center>   A

Adams, Alken

                         B
Barber, Barlow, Beevor, Bragg, Brereton, Bryan, Bush

                         C
Challenger, Clayton, Collier, Collins, Cussen

etc.

Would it be possible to create a skin that produces only this list, a bit like the gedcom file skin or the birthday skin ?

Adams, Alken
Barber
Barlow
Beevor
Bragg
Brereton
Bryan
Bush
Challenger
Clayton
Collier
Collins
Cussen
Donald
Eckstein
Edge
Edwards
Eldridge
Farrar
Fish
Fox
Gahan
Gaile
Glenn
Glover
Goodwin-Wilson

which seems rather strange as the first line has a comma with a space after the comma but all the others are as before.

Edited: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 by IainTait

I noticed that at the beginning of the code you have put   &lt;%[ instead of <%[ so I tried both and found that the first one did nothing and the second one in the FamilyNames.txt gave the list below

Corbett, Crawford
Falconer
Hargin
McKean
Peacock
Sinclair
Smith
Tait
Tannahill
Watson
Whyte
Wilson

Thanks again.

I have placed the file FamilyNames.txt in the test skin with this text inside:-

<%[
' Use a string dictionary to count the frequency of each last name.
' Counting the last names ensures each entry is unique.
' We could use the ObjectRepertory, but the StringDictionary is faster.
Set oStringDictionaryNames = Util.NewStringDictionary()
For Each i In Individuals
oStringDictionaryNames.Add i.Name.Last
Next

' Sort the dictionary from the largest to the smallest number
' to have the most popular last name at the top of the list
oStringDictionaryNames.SortByKey
iNameLast = oStringDictionaryNames.Count - 1
For iName = 0 To iNameLast
  strNameLast = oStringDictionaryNames.Key(iName)
  If (strNameLast <> "") Then
    Report.WriteLn strNameLast
  End If
Next
]%>

with the control <Report Template="FamilyNames.txt" /> in the config xml but this creates an enormously long vertical column of names which is very difficult to format as I have to move each name up a line, add a comma and a space and then move the next name up etc. and with thousands of unique names, this will take ages.

Please could you help me with this and show me how to add the comma and space between the names and have them follow each other on the same line.

As an after-thought, would it be possible to make a skin "Export FamilyNames List" which would behave a bit like the "Export to Gedcom" and only create a text file or htm file of the names list as I have mentioned above ?

Edited: Tuesday, March 2, 2010 by IainTait

Could commas be added between each name like in your home.htm ?

Remove the following line: