The issue is if you click on "Save", Legacy thinks you want to add a marriage.
When you exit a window without adding or editing any data, it's always wise to click on "Cancel" Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! -----Original Message----- From: BMcL Robinson [mailto:b...@vodafone.co.nz] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 5:10 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.4 -- Young Children have Unknown Spouse Hi Brian - I would not say "bug", but "design weakness" (worthy of review, as you are implying). Cheers, Brett BMcL Robinson, NZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian L. Lightfoot" <br...@the-lightfoots.com> To: <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 11:42 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.4 -- Young Children have Unknown Spouse Wow, that's right. I just went to an un-married child, intentionally clicked on the Marriage Information window, entered nothing, typed nothing, and clicked on nothing other than SAVE. Legacy creates an unknown spouse for this person but does not display any name or any other indication of a marriage. In fact, the Family view of the person would continue to look just as it did before. And if the user happened to select in the Customization (Preferences), Data Format tab, Child List indicators to NOT display the special symbols at the ends of names, then they'd have no way of knowing that there is an unknown spouse. They would never know this problem exists unless they created certain types of reports in which case we'd see the infamous "Persons-name married SOMEONE". And then another problem is that it is difficult for a novice or beginning user to figure out how to eliminate this unknown person (actually it's an unknown marriage). You can't click on the area where the unknown spouse's name would be to edit it because....well, Legacy won't allow you to edit something that doesn't exist. Clicking to open the Marriage Information window provides nothing but a blank window. There is nothing to edit, no indication that a marriage exists, and no means of telling Legacy that there really isn't any marriage. I can only encourage beginning users to make sure they remember to right click on everything and anything. Right clicking on the marriage info brings up the desired "Remove the marriage link" option. But now, my big question. Do the rest of you believe that this is a bug --- create a marriage when the user enter absolutely no data whatsoever? I should think that if the SAVE button is accidentally and unknowingly clicked, Legacy should warn the user that no data exists but it will create a marriage link -- Continue or Cancel. Brian in CA > -----Original Message----- > Or you might have gone into the Marriage Information window and clicked > on "Save" when you closed the window. That would add an unknown > marriage. > > > Thanks for using Legacy. > > Sherry > Customer Support > Millennia Corporation > supp...@legacyfamilytree.com > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
