David, Sorry I can't help you with the sentence definition problem, but I would like to point out one other 'implication' of using the address fields. Although Legacy exports the data in these fields in a GEDCOM under various tags, it's hit or miss whether other programs will import them properly. On the other hand, if you include the full address in the location field, you are pretty much assured that receiving programs will import the whole thing.
I started using the address fields for street addresses because I felt it was 'proper use of the database' i.e. if there is a specific field for street address that's where it should go rather than being one of the elements of the location field. And, if I was always going to be working in Legacy and never creating GEDCOMS to be read in other programs, I would probably still be doing it that way. But I found these tags were either ignored, or misinterpreted, in other (unnamed) genealogy programs. It's not that these other programs were 'wrong', they simply didn't have a database structure that had 'address additional information' linked to a location. Consequently, I have gone back to recording cemetery and hospital names (and rarely street addresses) in the location field. Paul -----Original Message----- From: David [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: July-14-11 5:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Problem using [Address] in Legacy sentence structures I am playing around with using "City, County, State, Country" as the four comma delimited Location-variables; and using [Address] as the name of the place, or the address of the place, or ??????? 1) I tried to change the Legacy Residence (RESI) fact sentence using the following sentence structure: [Date] [HeShe] had a residence [:if [Notes]::with [Notes]]at [Address] [inPlace].[Sources] This structure seems to work as long as their is an [Address]; but when the [Address] is missing .... the sentence structure puts a extra "at" in the sentence. After checking the Legacy Help File; I find, to my disappointment, that the "[:if " structure only works with four variables. [Address] is not one of them! Question: Has this Legacy problem been fixed or is their a sentence structure I can use that will work? Thanks, David in Mesa, Arizona 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
