There is no master. That's the problem. The Source Details are all copies not linked to each other so if you have to edit one you have to edit each one of them individually unlike a source that asks if you want to update all or just the one you're working on. If there was a master location for Source Details where we could select just one and link to many people then it would be so much easier. This is the one thing about Legacy I don't like.
I do a number of GEDCOM exports from Legacy to FTM and these individual Source Details end up producing duplicate image links if the Source Details include images. What a nightmare deleting all those images in FTM because there are thousands of them. Bill Boswell -----Original Message----- From: magnoliasouth [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 7:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to mass edit Source Detail. On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Mike Fry <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah! But therein lies the problem. You create a single Source Detail > and use it in multiple places. This results in multiple citation > records. Difficult to edit the multiple records as a single entity. Yet if the multiples are all the same, how is that difficult? Isn't that the same as the way a Master Source is used? You have the same record with multiple citations with a Master too. Think of it like an ability to have sub-sources or secondary sources. There are the occasional singular source details where you only use them once, but there are many that are used several times. In my case, it was a copy of a Bible record that came in a packet of other source papers by a cousin. The said Bible record is all on one page and lists names with marriages, but nothing else. So the source detail isn't unique, everyone listed on that page will have the same source detail. The sad part is, doing a search for text doesn't work either. If I have written "Marriage only; not date nor place" there is no way to search for all records that have that written in the source detail. Nor is there a way to Search using a Master Source that has the source detail text either. There should be a way, don't you think? Cindy 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
