On 21/08/2012 23:45, Sentz wrote: > One of the reasons I bought Legacy was because of the sourcewriter and > clipboard tools. I have been struggling with these tools for about a > year. I have rerun Geoff's start up Ultimate Guide on the topic and > watched his various webinars where he uses the source writer and > clipboard, including his most recent one, and have also read > documentation. I think I have the process down and then something goes > haywire with the sourcewriter or the clipboard. I am not a novice with > data entry or relational data bases, so this is getting very > frustrating. What I end up doing is not doing anything in the database > for a while, take a breather and try again. > The latest problem....I was entering an alternate death event for my > great grandmother. I clicked on the tirangle and set up the master > source which went okay. Then I set up the detail including linking an > image of the page from the death index that I had downloaded and cropped > from Family Search. Everything looked okay and I clicked save and then > clicked the bar on the left on the window for the event detail. Then > saved the event. It's my understanding that a plus sign should show on > the line following the event. Am I correct? When I check on the > documentation link for the record, the death citation information is not > showing. Also, in the event window, the data field labels were > highlighted. Perhaps is this case it has to do with where I have the > document image stored. > I keep thinking that there must be some little step that I am not doing > correctly. Any advice would be welcome.
The + will be there if you have attached a picture to the Event, not if you have attached it to the Source. -- 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
