MARVELOUS IDEA! Please make a suggestion that they do this ASAP! For the many of us who need to produce reports now and are stuck using Legacy 7.5 because we can get what we want today, it would REALLY encourage us to start the learning curve on Legacy 8. As it is now, we would have to keep both a Legacy 7.5 and a Legacy 8 fdb. Big deterrent!
If there were a way to set the user files are apply them to a new database, I would start Legacy 8 in a heartbeat! But why bother when I must still use Legacy 7.5, because any time I converted my latest 7.5 fdb to Legacy 8, I would have to go through the onerous process of settings all my user settings! How many hours are there in YOUR day? CE > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Customisation > Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 16:39:03 +0200 > > On 05 Mar 2014 16:18, Ron Taylor wrote: > > > I had this same concern with Legacy 8 customization. The (ff) settings do > > make > > sense for multiple databases. The problem is that Legacy assumes that > > "Reset to > > Legacy-Defaults" should be used when opening a database for the first time > > in > > Legacy 8 versus "Reset to User-Defaults". Once the database has been > > opened, > > the (ff) settings are established and work fine from that point forward. A > > simple question "Would you like to apply User-Default customization > > settings to > > this database?" might be asked when a database is opened the first time in > > version 8. I think it also happens when a new database is started. That > > way, > > the user who assumes all the (ff) settings will be functional in every > > database > > that is opened will have that condition. It is assumed that the (gbl) > > settings > > will be used in every database for the user. > > The problem here is that the first time a NEW file opened, there are no > user-defined FF settings for the file. You'd need to be able to save the FF > settings from a file as a named set that can then be applied to a new file - > NOT > AN EXISTING FILE! > > This way, you could have multiple FF sets to select from when a new file is > created. > > -- > Regards, > Mike Fry > Johannesburg (g) 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
