Hi, Howard —
Thanks for taking a stab at answering my question. The issue you faced sounds quite frustrating, and I’m glad you found a solution. Unfortunately, my issue has to do solely with Legacy, and not with its integration with FamilySearch’s tree. I actually had data that came from a FamilyTreeMaker file that was imported into Legacy — the import is already completed and there’s been too much work to go back to the importing step. But that’s how the information ended up in the wrong fields. Once I try to merge this temporary Legacy tree with my main tree (which I haven’t done yet, since I’m trying to clean up and standardize things), I will have a problem with this particular event because the format is so different from my regular Legacy event. There are two possible solutions that I can see — one is to create a new event, and rework all the sentence definitions so that these particular ones use the description field in a different way. The other solution would be to standardize the input of the data by switching the information that is in the Legacy event fields. My preference is for the latter. If there’s a way to do this from within Legacy, that would be terrific. If I need to use Access to switch the field information, I’m open to doing that (although I hope it would be fairly simple to do since I haven’t really used Access to modify my Legacy database before). cheers, Kirsty J From: Howard Cady [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 10:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Switching fields in an event Kirsty, There is a work around for this error in LegacyFamilyTree, but first I will re-report the error and then give a work around example. My OS Windows 8.1, 32 and 64 bit computers, Legacy version 8.0.0.473 setup to connect to FamilySearch (FSFT) with remembered name and password. Some individuals in FSFT have under “Facts and Events” an entry “Life Sketch” e.g. William Scott b. 25 Sep 1801, d. 1 Jun 1880, FS ID# LWQM-F3Q. The Life Sketch Event’s description can be quite long and far exceeding 255 characters. When I try to share this type of event by downloading (sharing) from FS to Legacy on my computer Legacy stores the information in Table tblER and tries to store the description in a 255 character field tblER.Description rather than the proper MEMO field tblER.Desc (What a confusing choice of field names!). When the Description field overflows (>255 characters) a message is sent to FS that causes it to instantly drop my internet connection and generate an OS Error on my computer. Until I have deleted the offending event I am not allowed to reconnect to FS with that person active. This error was reported to Legacy in September 2014 and a ticket for repair generated, but the error was not fixed thru version 473. I do not know anything about uploading a LifeSketch Event from Legacy to FS, but I have my doubts. THE WORK AROUND – BABY STEPS USING A COPY OF LEGACY’S SAMPLE FILE 1. Create an unattached male - William Scott b. 25 Sep 1801, d. 1 Jun 1880, FS ID# LWQM-F3Q. and select him in Legacy’s Individual Information Screen. 2. Connect to FamilySearch by clicking the FamilySearch tool in Legacy – should display 15 possible duplicates 3. Select the Share Tab – should display William Scott’s information - Legacy on the left and FamilySearch info on the right. 4. Find the “LifeSketch” event on the right (FSFT) side and click the share arrow to start the download to your file. This will bring up a screen “Select action to perform” with the right side showing “Legacy” information and the left showing “FamilySearch” with more than a screen full of information. 5. Use the Windows select feature to highlight the FSFT information and ctrl-c to copy the information to Windows clip board. 6. Close the FSFT window, return to the Legacy’s Individual Information Screen, and open the Individual Information Screen to add an event to William Scott’s information. 7. Add a “LifeSketch” event to William Scott. Select the Notes field and use ctrl-v to transfer windows clip board to the Notes field. 8. Enter anything you want into the Date and Place fields, but DO NOT enter anything in the Description field of this event. (Anything in the Description field will prevent connection of this individual for further sharing with FSFT) I do not know which event caused you trouble, but I suspect the same difficulty with any event that has lots of information in the FSFT description field. Howard Cady From: Kirsty M. Haining <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 5:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Switching fields in an event Hi, everyone — I’m hoping someone has already solved this problem and knows what to do. I have imported data that has information in the description field that I want to be in my event notes field. How can I get the data from these fields to be switched automatically (and, obviously, quickly and efficiently)? Thanks for your help. cheers, Kirsty Haining Seattle, Washington J 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
