On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:30:05 -0400, "Russ McGillivray"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Copy vs. Replace: I was thinking the pointer worked the other way, from the 
>source detail to the picture, so you raise a good question. Copy would allow 
>one to still access the picture in Legacy through the Source, but Replace 
>gives the main benefit. So long as there is a 1:1 relationship, i.e. if 5 
>individuals have the same census source detail, then there are already 5 
>records in the multimedia table that can be updated.

PICTURE <<-----> CITATION <<-----> EVENT

An event can have many citations, and a citation can have many pictures.
So the picture points to the citation (amongst other things) and the
citation points to the event (amongst other things).

>Simple update query - can you sketch the main elements? I couldn't find my way 
>through the different ID numbers involved.

It all depends on the answer to the event types question. Perhaps a
better place for this discussion would be at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools/. I don't want to bore people
here.

--

Dennis Kowallek (LTools)
http://zippersoftware.com/ltools
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools



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