Not that I haven't messed up and had to go thru this with a set or two of citations, but I'm doing my best now to get the citation the way I want in the clipboard(s) and add it all right the first time. Then I'm moving on to my next bit of research, because research is the fun part. I'm also a self-proclaimed recovering controlling perfectionist... trying to get myself away from having to have everything perfect... reworking, reworking, etc. So, I don't think I would use these enhancements - or at least try not to be in the position to want them. I would rather the programmers work on new features, not aids for making corrections. Just mho. --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams
----- Original Message ---- From: Lee Irons <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, December 13, 2011 10:53:53 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event Sherry got back to me on this one. Here is what I came up with to try to explain it better: Pasting an event to a tagged group of individuals (let�s call this Enhancement #1) would be a step in the right direction. Enhancement #2, another step in the right direction would be the ability in Advanced Sourcing to paste a source citation/detail from the source clipboard to a new event to be created in a tagged group of individuals. Dennis Kowallek has a tool in his LTools to create an event and paste it with an existing source citation/detail to a tagged group of individuals. However, one must know the IDSX number of the source citation/detail from tblSX in the Access database. So it would be nice to have this enhancement built into the Advanced Sourcing feature of Legacy. Another nice aid, Enhancement #3, would be the ability in Advanced Sourcing to link a source citation/detail from the source clipboard to existing events in a tagged group of individuals which events have the exact same Fact Type, Description, Date, and Place. (Currently, Advanced Sourcing only links to ALL events of tagged individuals, which is only useful if each tagged individual only has only one existing event.) Now imagine that Millennia provides these first three enhancements in a future upgrade. I�m all happy and use Enhancement 1 to paste an event with its source citation/detail to a family of 12 individuals. (Note, the current way I would do this is to copy the event to the Event Clipboard from the individual where I first created it and then open each of the other 11 individuals and paste the event.) The event and its source citation/detail now exists as twelve different records in the database. Three months later, I want to change something I have typed in the source citation/detail that is linked to the event. I have to open the source citation/detail of the event of each individual separately to make the change so that it is consistent in all twelve places. This is a huge headache. And I am currently living it with a file of thousands of individuals with tens of thousands of source citations/details with which I used the Source Clipboard liberally to paste common source citation/details on a regular basis. To help relieve me of this ongoing headache, hopefully Millennia will provide the following: Enhancement #4 � Millennia creates an enhancement that allows me to change a copied source citation/detail in all places where it has been pasted at the same time with a single change and save action. From the �Assigned Sources For� window of one of the individuals or marriages that has the source citation/detail pasted to it (or from the Sources tab of the �Name List� window), I would highlight the source citation/detail that has been copied to many places and that I want to change in all places, and then I would click on a button that says �Edit All Copies of Detail.� The program then tags all of the source citation/detail index numbers (IDSX in tblSX) that are exact copies of that source citation/detail. Then, when I�m all done making changes to that source citation/detail and click on Save, the change saves to all of the tagged source citation/detail index numbers, after which it clears the tags in preparation for the next time the feature is used. Note, Millennia has already figured out how to recognize when a source citation/detail is exactly the same as another, because the reports feature is able to print a source citation/detail that has many copies only once in the endnotes of a report. Now, I�m just asking that Millennia use a similar capability to make changes to copies source citations/details. Of course. Another way to accomplish enhancement #4 (and make a much more efficient database) is to reconfigure the data structure of the database so that a single source citation/detail record can be linked to any number of events in any number of individuals and marriages. So, when I link a source citation/detail to an event that is pasted to twelve different individuals, when I go back to change something in the source citation/detail three months later, I only have to change one source citation/detail record referenced by twelve event records, not twelve source citations/detail records referenced by twelve event records. This would be a major change to the way Legacy works (no more need for a source clipboard), and so would probably be a big pill for Millennia to swallow. The four numbered enhancements provided above essentially go together as a package. For those of you who use the source clipboard liberally like I do, what do you think? 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
