I have submitted an enhancement request from the Legacy home page. Jenny, I particularly liked your analogy to linking to a multimedia item. It is exactly the same concept, except than one is linking to a row in the Legacy database, rather than an external file. I used wording to that effect in the enhancement request.
I'm not expecting any quick action on this one as it probably requires database changes, but at least the suggestion has been made. In the meantime, the source clipboard (yes, including the three bar icon when used appropriately) is an excellent tool to save keystrokes and get consistency in 'multiple iterations' of the same citation. Even if this enhancement were implemented, I see it being used in addition to the source clipboard. While one would not need to use the clipboard to create identical citations, I can still see it being used to create a "citation template" to be referenced in many people and/or events, with the user then going into each citation and tweaking some piece of data unique to that citation (maybe a page number). Paul Gray -----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: July-27-11 3:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Single Source Citation link to multiple People and Events On 27/07/2011 10:32, Ron Ferguson wrote: > Paul, > > you say " > It would be so nice if we could create a single citation and then link it to > multiple people, fields and/or events." > > I must be misunderstanding, because that is what I do using the Source > Clipboard. I read Paul's post as meaning that there should be one iteration of the citation only, not numerous of them. Rather like we now have one photograph and Legacy links to it several times if you attach it to several people. So all the citations would be stored in one place, once, and you would just copy and paste the link. -- 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 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 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
