Whats New

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These are the highlights of some of the major new features in RootsMagic 8:

• Native MacOS support
• Run RootsMagic directly from a flash drive on Windows, Mac, or both
• Open databases in separate windows to support multiple monitors
• Easily switch between different data views (sources, places, tasks, media, etc) without losing your place in those views
• Live edit for sources, places, tasks, media, etc
• Open multiple edit screens at same time
• Access other data lists (sources, places, tasks, media, etc) w/o having to close Edit Person screen(s) first
• Persistent search results let you switch to other screens / data w/o having to regenerate search
• View and edit immediate family members directly from a person's edit screen (timeline)
• Map any group of people (not limited to immediate family anymore)
• New report and charting engine
• Fan charts
• Save wall charts to PDF
• Save reports directly to .DOCX, .XLSX, and other formats
• Photos on Pedigree view and Family view individuals
• Expand and collapse generations on descendant view
• Couple view
• Reusable citations
• View uses of sources / citations directly from source / citation list
• Tasks (all new)
  • Tasks can be attached to multiple people
  • Tasks can be attached to actual (multiple) source records
  • Tasks can be attached to multiple media, addresses, or repositories
  • Tasks can be filtered by any combination of data, people, families, events, places, place details, names, sources, citations, addresses, repositories, media, or folders
  • Quickly filter tasks by repository, address, media, source, citation, place, or person
• Command pallette
• More colors for color coding
• Quickly view, add or remove people from multiple groups at once
• Relative media paths
• Home page dashboard (news, files properties, recent files, etc
• Reversible place list
• View where a place is used directly on screen
• Directly edit a person using a place in place list or mapping
• Slide in workflow