If your source details are not set to be included then they will be left out of the GEDCOM as well. To globally change this for all the source details: Go to Options > Customize > Sources In the area for source details make sure the option to include these is citations is selected Click the reset button to have Legacy update all your source details to be included.
Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 28/05/2010 12:51 PM, Ward Walker wrote: > Update: > > I just updated my (Deluxe) build from 7.4.0.30 to 7.4.0.39 and got a > different result. (Somehow I missed or overlooked the notice of a newer > build.) The detail information is once again present in the GEDCOM file and > likewise in the Source Detail fields in the re-imported family file. This is > good! However, in the Legacy family file, the check box to "Add this detail > to the source citation on reports" is not checked. I can't recall whether > this was the behavior during last year's tests. It looks like a Legacy import > bug. Other systems might behave differently on import, as I don't think there > is anything in the GEDCOM that could influence this import decision. > > If one manually checks the above box, then, as before, all the information is > present in the citation, but it is badly formatted. Non-Legacy products would > surely do the same, given the same GEDCOM file. > > An example of the formatting problem: The export of a master source includes > the string "... e-mail<; ...", while the detail source field contains the > string "... 27 Dec 2009> ...". The resulting output citation places these > two strings in different locations! > > Ward > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ward Walker > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 11:42 AM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Incomplete Export of Source Details > > > Ron, > > For both problems (source details missing, and source fields scrambled), > the test need go no further than the GEDCOM file produced by Legacy. The > first problem is entirely a Legacy bug. The root cause of the second problem > is the GEDCOM standard, although Legacy might be able to mitigate the effect > somewhat during the export. > > Dave, Ron, and Connie, > > I just tried a 1-individual GEDCOM 5.5 export. The source details were > completely missing from the SW-originated citations, although the text from > the Text/Comments tab of the Detail was present. (The source details from a > Basic-originated citation were not missing.) The 2 SW templates involved in > this test were: Internet> Website, generic (as in Dave's test) and Email> > Grouped by corresponent. > > The templates that I had investigated last year all had the details in the > export. I don't recall if I looked at these 2. Perhaps Legacy has changed > such that details are now missing for ALL templates! If so, a serious, but > understandable, problem has evolved into a major defect. > > Ward > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ron Ferguson > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 3:44 AM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Incomplete Export of Source Details > > > Dave, > > One of the reasons I suggested that you test is because there are two > programs involved, Legacy and TNG. Whilst my main method of publishing my > data is on websites I do not like TNG, much preferring the Legacy Pedigree > pages. What one needs to consider is not only whether Legacy is exporting the > Source Details etc. but whether the importing program is reading them > correctly. > > Yesterday I exported to a GEDCOM 5.5 and imported into My Heritage, and > the Source Details do not seem to be there. I have yet to examine the problem > in detail but I suspect that they are in My Heritage somewhere, and are > simply not being included in its reports. This could be the case with TNG. > > I know that there are a number of users who do use TNG and perhaps one > of them could advise on this question. But I still consider that it is > something best tested on one's own set up. > > Ron Ferguson > _____________________________________________________ > > *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth > http://www.fergys.co.uk > Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw > And the Fergusons of N.W. England > ____________________________________________________ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dave Keeney > To: [email protected] > Sent: 28 May 2010 04:18 > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Incomplete Export of Source Details > > > Maybe it's different by SW template. I'm talking about Internet> > Website, generic. > I'll check some others but I have yet to see any get exported. > Dave > > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Connie Sheets<[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dave, > > Legacy has always supported the exporting of "Source Detail in the > Source Writer templates," as far as I'm concerned. There was one Source > Writer template (Tax Records) I'm aware of where the detail did not export; > it has been fixed. > > Connie > > > > --- On Thu, 5/27/10, Dave Keeney<[email protected]> wrote: > > Has there been any advances to this issue in the last year? > > E.G. has Legacy stated that they will support the exporting of Source > Detail in the Source Writer templates? Or anything like that? > > If not I'll need to go back and unconvert all of my Source Writer > sources. > > Legacy is an important part of my genealogy toolbox, but no more > important that my use of TNG. 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