I just mentioned changing the data structure of the databaseas as one way of accomplishing enhancement #4. But there is a way to do enhancement #4 that does not involve changing the way the databse is structured, so I agree with you Dennis.
I have found the search and replace feature to be tricky to use (please everyone, do not turn this thread into a discussion on search and replace). At any rate, my issues are not asociated with just replacing a word or two. I am wanting to add analysis paragraphs to the comments field of all of my source citations/details. Typing it in one source citation/detail and haveing it automatically update all of the other cource citations/details that are copies of it would save hundreds of hours. The four enhancements I recommended are not really a new feature, but just make the existing Advanced Sourcing feature complete. Also, looking at the database tables, it looks like these enhancements would be reltively easy to develop. Legacy does not need these 4 enhancements to keep many of its existing users. It needs these enhancements to keep some of its existing users. But more importantly, it needs these enhancements to pull market share from Family Tree Maker and Roots Magic, its two biggest commercial competetors. New users importing their data from other genealogy programs will need these enhancements to make cleaning up their data easier. I see this as a business decision. Low cost enhancements, big potential market share impact. Lee ---- "Dennis M. Kowallek" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:53:53 -0500, "Lee Irons" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >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. > > Not only a big pill to swallow for Millennia, but for the users who are > used to it working the way it does. When you change it you would have to > pop up a warning that it will also be changed everywhere else, and maybe > even have to offer the user the opportunity to "break" that shared > citation into separate citations (in case the user only wants to change > it for one individual and not the others). > > I remember discussing this on the LUG in my 1st couple of years on the > LUG (and I've been here 9 years). It's probably not going to happen. The > best you can probably hope for is a better search/replace to make things > easier. > > -- > > 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. > > > 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
