Add ability to sort the siblings by age in the Family Tree Layout

Question

There should be a way to specify either the:

• Date of birth
• Age
• Child no. (e.g. 1st child, 2nd child etc.).

This is very similar to Question 9859, but it deserves a feature request.

Thanks in advance!

PS: As a developer, is there a way to help?

Comments

Thank you for offering to help out, but (unfortunately) this is currently not possible.

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How about sorting by the Description field? This would be flexible enough to cover most user cases. I'm referring to a new option in the "Sort Family Members" selector.

PS: I'm taking the reluctance is adding new fields, not the actual implementation, which should be trivial given the maturity of the product.

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Unfortunately, it is quite the opposite. Adding new fields is trivial (yEd already supports custom properties). Adding support for user-defined sort criteria to the algorithm is the difficult part.