Absolutely! But that is not enough. If you have a set of individuals, and they have different fields filled in, and you add in a set of data, again across different fields, the ability to select the fields does not help, there is still some intersection. In a very simple illustration -- if I have John Smith with event residence sourced, James Smith with event employment sourced, and Jane Smith with event education sourced, and I add the employment field for John, education for James, and residence for Jane, then I tell the tool to add new source for specified fields "residence," "employment," and education," it not only correctly sources the new data but also incorrectly adds the new source to the old data that was already sourced.
As I said, it would be much more helpful, for me at least and the way I enter data, if I could instruct the tool to look for unsourced fields across tagged individuals Cheers. Kevin Walker Wheaton, IL. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/08/2010 02:26, Kevin Walker wrote: >> To answer my own question, through experimentation, I discovered the >> Advanced Sourcing tool does precisely what it says it will -- apply >> the source to any field that contains information. This includes >> those that already have a source. >> >> Attention Legacy programmers, it would have been more helpful if I >> could have specified to only have those fields without a source >> receive the new source. > > The programmers probably assumed that you would know to which fields you > had not assigned a Source and hence they give you the option to select > only those fields. > -- > Jenny M Benson > > > > 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 > > > > 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
