I confess that I have not tried to do what you wish, but before my last post I did take a good look at the Advanced Sourcing feature and I cannot see how it can be done at present. As I see it, to make it work it work be necessary, for the Event box to link with the Event Master list so that individual Events can be selected.
This might not be the only way, but it is one which comes to mind, and I would have thought that this would not be too difficult to program - but I would bow to Dennis's expertise on this. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 1:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event I agree Ron. I have twice sent followon messages to my ticket number over the past three days asking if it is something they would consider or not, and I am getting no response (after the initial response of , "but you should be able to do what you want to do" and my explanation that I can't). I have brought up shared source citations and shared events in the past (I have been on here a long time, though I'm not prolific with the messages), but this does not seem to go anywhere either. That is what I would really like to see, but in the interim, the ability to link source citations to selected events through advanced sourcing would be adequate. Just trying to ask for a slight plus up of existing capability. In my post, I also asked for an idea on how I could do what I am trying to do without so much effort required to click around. But I seem to be getting the same non-reponse to this question as from Millenia. Crickets. I guess the silence is telling me that no one has figured out a quick way to link a common event to mulitple individuals in Legacy, or a quick way to attach a common source citation to selected existing events of multiple individuals. Either way, Legacy users have to copy it once to a clipboard and then click around to open each individual's edit window one at a time. The other two of the top three software packages seem to think it is a big deal. Not sure why it does not seem to have any attention or attraction with Millenia. ---- Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > You say "I have put the request in to the developers, but the only > response > I am getting is that they think I should already be able to do it. " > > In which case one would have thought they would have told you how. > > Ron Ferguson > http://[email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 12:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event > > Thanks for the response Dennis, > > Millenia seems to have had a demand at some point for the Advanced > Sourcing > capability, otherwise we would not even have it. Right now, advanced > sourcing can be done for other individual attributes and note fields. > Quite > a variety. It can even be done for events. But when "Events" is > selected, > it attaches the source citation/detail on the clipboard to all of the > events > currently attached to each selected individual/marriage, which I'm not > sure > why anyone would ever want to do that. It just seems like Millenia was on > their way to doing it, but then just didn't finish the development before > releasing the advanced sourcing capability. And then they just never got > back to it. > > I have put the request in to the developers, but the only response I am > getting is that they think I should already be able to do it. I notice > the > developers occassionally respond to messages on the user group, so I'm > just > putting it out there to the entire group. > > If this cannot be done and is not planned, does anyone have any ideas on > how > to have fewer clicks and windows to go through to attach the source > clipboard to an event attached to mulitple individuals (or even the event > clipboard). Currently, we have to click around to all of the individuals > and paste the source individually to events or paste the events > individually. This is a very time consuming process. Family Tree Maker > 2012 has the ability to attach source citations to selected events from > the > equivalent of their advanced sourcing window. Roots Masic 5 has the > ability > to share an event (with attached source citations with multiple > individuals > from a single window. It just seems like everyone else is making this > easier. Why wouldn't Millenia? > > ---- "Dennis M. Kowallek" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:37:34 -0500, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >Through Advanced Sourcing, I would like to link the Source > > >Citation/Detail on my > > >Source Clipboard to one selected event (identified by the same Event > > >Type, Date, > > >Place, and Description) that is common to all individuals or marriages > > >I > > >have > > >selected on the "Which Records to Use Tab." Unfortunately, Advanced > > >Sourcing > > >seems to only allow linking the Source Citation/Detail to all events of > > >all > > >individuals or marriages I have selected on the "Which Records to Use > > >Tab." Is > > >there something I am missing, or is this something that Legacy just > > >can't > > >do? > > > > > >If Legacy just can;t do this, are there plans to have this capability > > >in > > >a > > >future release? > > > > Millennia doesn't comment on future enhancements, but yours is the first > > time I have ever heard of this need. Ergo I doubt if a feature like this > > would have much, if any, pent up demand. But you can always submit the > > suggestion to the programmers. > > > > -- > > > > Dennis Kowallek (LTools/Custom Programming) > > http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools > > > > NOTE TO LUG USERS: Use plain text if you want me to read your post. 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