What's new in ScionPC 8.3
Sep 19, 2016
- New - Improved navigation
- New - Search computer for GEDCOM files
- New - If loaded database has not been changed, program no longer asks if you want to save it on exit
- Updated - Count of surnames-by-sex added to statistics report and web-page
- Updated - Picture details now displayed below default pictures on personal and family album web pages
- Updated - Support for long-obsolete Amiga databases discontinued
- GEDCOM export of non-Gregorian calendars in dates was incorrect. Fixed.
- GEDCOM "Selected export" of ancestors/descendants could terminate early at single-parent families. Fixed.
- Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
New in ScionPC 8.2 (May 20, 2014)
- New - Back/foward buttons to browse through visited database entries
- New - "Immediate Relatives" button in "Pedigree" area of personal page
- New - Optional support for intersex individuals
- New - "Quick Pick" button added to Fact Details dialog to speed up data entry
- New - Copy/paste facts between people/families
- New - Add quick-links to external applications to the "Tools" menu
- New - Who/Where/When report
- New - New tool to set/clear personal/family User IDs
- New - List of Events dialog
- New - Website GENDEX index file generation
- New - ScionPC Reference Manual (if in program folder) can be accessed from the Help menu
- Updated - Checking of surname spelling consistency added to Audit report
- Updated - Personal Summary reports can now be printed in alphabetical order
- Updated - Print Personal Events reports (with or without historical events) for selected people
- Updated - Statistics report and web-page now include count of fact occurrences
- Updated - Web pages can now have either ".htm" or ".html" file extensions
- Updated - Merge Places dialog now displays the number of occurrences of each place name
- Updated - Merge People dialog improved
- Updated - Autotext configuration moved to Preferences dialog
- Updated - Copy attachment full filename to Windows clipboard from List of Attachments dialog
- Updated - Improved report compatibility with various word processors
- Generation of some extremely long reports (many hundreds of pages) could sometimes freeze. Fixed.
- Some navigation links on web pages were loosing their underlining. Fixed.
- Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
New in ScionPC 8.1 (Mar 19, 2013)
- New - Person-in-History Chronology Report listing personal events along with important historical events
- New - Multi-Relationship Report listing those people with multiple parents (e.g. both birth and adoptive parents) and/or multiple partners
- Updated - Quick access to web sites, files and email addresses in the Details preview area of Lists of Sources/Notes
- Updated - Quick access to email addresses referenced in the editable fields of Sources and Notes
- Updated - Multiple partners in displays and reports are now automatically ordered by marriage/union date
- Updated - Thumbnail display added to List of Attachments dialog
- Updated - Improved navigation elements added to all default (and 'bonus') web-page templates
- Updated - Historical events can be optionally included on the personal Timeline tab
- Updated - Death dates added to Descendant Charts
- Updated - Combined surname/given-name filtering added to person/family/name selection dialogs
- Updated - Improved List of Names dialog
- Updated - Relationship Calculator enhanced to simplify selection of possible relative. Reporting feature added.
- Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
New in ScionPC 8.0 (Jun 6, 2012)
- New - Timeline tab added to Personal Details Page
- New - Program can be localised into Western European languages. Sorry, no translations yet - volunteer translators welcome!
- New - Program options integrated into a single dialog
- New - "Master" List of Places (with referencing and editing capability)
- New - Simplified entry of accented characters using Microsoft's Character Map
- New - Quick access to files and web sites referenced in the editable fields of
- Notes and Sources:
- Updated - Improved GEDCOM support
- Updated - Enhanced Relationship Calculator
- Updated - Enhanced privacy handling
- Updated - Event Places List report
- Updated - Descendants Chart report
- Updated - Personal Events Chronology Chart
- Updated - New "web template variables" to add page generation date to web pages
- When reading some data, multiple adjacent spaces were being condensed into a single space. Fixed.
- Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
New in ScionPC 7.6 (Jun 25, 2011)
- New - Tool to find and relocate missing attachments
- New - Tool to add a "deceased" fact to people likely to be dead
- New - Select fact places from a list of existing place names
- New - Thumbnails of people/families displayed on main data pages
- New - Personal Summary reports optionally including ancestors or descendants
- New - Copy personal/family summaries to the clipboard as text
- New - "Drag-n-drop" to re-order on-screen display of personal/family facts
- Updated - Optionally remember default sort-order of List of People
- Updated - Improved documentation of book-style reports
- Updated - Improved support of repositories
- In some reports, the user-defined order of children was not always honoured. Fixed.
- Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
New in ScionPC 7.5 (Feb 14, 2011)
- New - Optional display of personal thumbnails in Enhanced Tooltips
- New - Specify the surname appearance as upper-case, initial capital, or as-entered
- New - Add multiple attachments to multiple people/families in one step
- New - Quickly insert people's names into attachment details
- New - Optionally strip names on "privatisation" of database
- Updated - GEDCOM export now supports export of only selected people
- Updated - Improved GEDCOM import
- Updated - Remember any user-defined fact types for subsequent re-selection
- Updated - Increased generation limit in Progeny, Ahnentafel and List of Relatives Reports
- Updated - Personal Digest reports can now optionally include non-BDM facts
- Updated - Enhanced "shift-click" navigation in Ancestors dialog
- Updated - Extended File Properties dialog
- Updated - Improved date entry
- Updated - Improved handling of Enhanced Tooltip options
- On web pages, date-less children/siblings could display a previous person's dates. Fixed.
- Minor bug fixes and programme enhancements
New in ScionPC 7.4 (Dec 2, 2010)
- New - Set privacy of "living" people
- New - Box-style Pedigree Chart reports
- New - Very concise Personal Digests report
- New - List of People web page (with dates and partners)
- New - Option to display last-used database on program startup
- New - "Browser mode" for on-screen ancestor and descendant charts
- Updated - Relationship Calculator enhanced to show lines-of-descent
- Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.