Elizabeth,

I think that using Legacy you have little option other than to do them
individually.

Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/


From: Elizabeth Young
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [LegacyUG] Re: sources incomplete on reports in 7.5

I apologize for my previous confusing post.

I am using Legacy 7.5 version 7.5.0.42 Build Date 20 Jan 2011
Standard version.

And it looks as though there is a more recent build as of the 24th, so I
shall give that a try later today..

In regards to my previous post:
Ron Ferguson, I must respectfully disagree with your statement that Source
Writer is available in both versions. I believe it was in the past, but it
is no longer. This is supported by the comparison chart on Legacy's download
page.
>From the Options menu, I select Customize, then the Sources tab.
At the bottom left of the Sources tab is "Source Entry System"
I cannot select Source Writer System since I am using the Standard version
of Legacy (I get a popup offering the Deluxe version). I do not recall this
happening with the Standard 7.4 edition.
I have no quarrel with the absence of Source Writer - as I have learned more
about documentation I have started using the Basic Source system more since
I find it satisfies my inner control-freak, I just have a number of older
master sources created with Source Writer under previous versions of Legacy.

Thank you for your suggestion, Virginia, to reset to defaults.
Unfortunately, that made no difference in how my reports are looking.

As my family file grows, I have started to re-think how I wish to organize
my sources. So perhaps my difficulties will be a incentive to implement my
nascent source clean-up plan. I inherited all of my mother's genealogical
research earlier this year and whoooo, there is a lot!

Here is, I hope, a clearer picture of what I am trying to accomplish and the
difficulties I am having. I realized that some of the information I provided
previously (if it was even understandable) was not quite accurate, so I have
attempted to amend that in the following.

I have seven distinct master sources (yes, too many master sources!)
assigned to a certain individual in my family file: Allen E. Gorham. I can
view and edit these sources and their details by clicking on the "Show list
of assigned sources" icon visible in the "Family" view.
three of those sources have a bullet next to them, indicating (I believe)
that they were created with Source Writer in a previous version of Legacy.
One of those master sources has been edited by me since I installed 7.5..
The other two have not been edited since the install. The other four sources
do not have the bullet and were created using the basic system subsequent to
my 7.5 install.
Clicking on the "Reports" icon on the toolbar, I am directed to several tabs
where I can chose what type of report and options I wish.
I chose "Individual Report" and select Allen E. Gorham. After setting the
report options to default (just to undo any hare-brained thing I tried
earlier) I go into Report Options, Sources tab and check the Print Source
Citations box.
In the "Include" tab, I check the box for Event Information.
I assume that these actions will produce an individual report with source
detail and citations for events in that individual's life. This maybe where
I am going wrong in my thinking.

When I preview the report on the screen, I have two sources, not seven,
listed at the end of the report.
The two sources that do appear are the two created with Source Writer in a
previous version and unmodified by me since. The detail information and
comments of the five missing sources appear in the report, but the source
citations do not.

I hope that is a bit clearer and that I've provided an interesting puzzle
for the board.

liz

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Elizabeth Young <[email protected]> wrote:
Just upgraded to 7.5 (non-paid version) from 7.4 (non-paid version). Windows
7.

Since only one way to create sources is available to me on the new version,
I have a mixture of sources in my file: blah blah blah :)


--
Elizabeth Young
Rescue, CA





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