On 15/11/2010 13:53, James Cook wrote: > After reading over the tagging feature in Legacy, it seems that is > intent is to help assemble groups of people for generating lists > and/or reports. It does mention that the tags could be named if you > wish, but no examples of why one might want to do so. I wondering in > what ways others have found this feature useful. Specifically, I am > wondering if are making use of them as temporary (just long enough to > get a desired report), or permanent (not sure how this works, but say > marking anyone with six fingers or toes), or a mix of both. Just > generally, a run down of the ins and outs of how you use and managing > these tags.
I have 4 permanent tags which indicate the 4 main lines of my family from my grandparents backwards. For my parents generation downwards I use combinations of the 4 tags which are each named with the suranme of the grandparent. The other 5 tags I use on a temporary basis and have found it very necessary to name them so that I remember why I tagged someone and know when it is ok to delete that tag or untag an individual. Temporary tags might be people who need a particular Source updated or multimedia added, to give but 2 examples. > > > What I really want to do, is mark individuals with custom attributes. > I thought maybe tagging was the way to go, but I can see running out > of nine options in a hurry. Perhaps events (or maybe a singe event > called "Tags" with simply a notes section of comma delimited tags) > would better serve my purpose. Some examples may help. I'd like to > track and have available in reports various attributes, such as twins. > I know in the child settings, there is a dropdown box where I can set > twins into my Legacy database, but I've not been able to discover how > to get his information back out in reports or other ways of sharing > the research. There are other attributes - Revolutionary War, Civil > War, Mason, Baptist, Methodist, Republican, Politician, etc - that do > not have entries built into the Legacy UI. I could create custom > events for each specific attribute, but this seems a bit of overkill. > I think I've done this with eval copies of other software, and am > wondering how to achive this in Legacy. If you think creating specific Events would be overkill then creating just one Event and entering the various combinations of Revolutionary War, Civil War, Mason, Baptist, Methodist, Republican, Politician, etc in the Notes section might work for you. You can use the Search feature to pick out anybody with a particular word or words in their Event Notes and tag that group for a Report. However, there are already Events for various Military matters, for Religion and for Occupation so I am wondering if you really need another Event field for this information. > -- 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
