Peter Simpson wrote: > Time to see if this forum can crack a problem. > A number of our user group have been for too long trying every means possible > to achieve what we believed should be the simplest of tasks. > Finally one of our group enquired to Legacy tech support and received a > confusing response. > In order to achieve some major ongoing data management solutions for a very > large body of research we have need to generate a txt file of every name in > the legacy database. > What is seen on the screen everytime you click the name list icon in Legacy, > that being 1st column rin, 2nd column surname and given names followed by the > short date (ie years only - we can live with blanks, bef and abt) in > brackets is exactly what we need. > We cannot understand that if Legacy can generate internally a window that has > the precise data displayed in the absolute & exact form needed, why we > cannot print that out nor save same in the csv form available from which we > can so easily convert to txt ourselves. > What are we all missing please? > Any help appreciated. > Peter Simpson > >
Go to http://www.gedmagic.com/ and download GEDxlate lite. Create a gedcom from Legacy including all individuals. Run that gedcom through GEDxlate and you can produce a report that will probably give you what you need. The sort of functionality you are asking for in Legacy would add to the already large overhead in the program and when the tools exist to accomplish what is needed there is no need to re-invent the wheel. Remember, Legacy is first and foremost a genealogy program. The other data manipulations are not really genealogy. -- Gene Y. http://myyoungs.atspace.com/index.htm Researching Young, Zies, Harer & Cox with Legacy Family Tree Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
