One needs to remember that GEDCOM is a very old standard and has not been up dated since the early 1990’s.
It was never designed to do a lot of things it is being forced to do today. It was designed to convert ALL of the data in one product so it could be used in an another product. Now we have people complaining that an GEDCOM is showing too much and at the same time others complaining that data is being left out. Why not just use these tools for what they were designed to do. Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == From: Ward Walker [mailto:wnkwal...@rogers.com] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 12:43 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Source Comments in GEDCOM [WAS: Details text showing up in Footnote citation] See below... From: Brian L. Lightfoot <mailto:br...@the-lightfoots.com> Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015 2:15 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Details text showing up in Footnote citation. ... Now for the really bad news that nobody has yet caught. I seems this info on the Comment tab of a Master Source is always included on a GEDCOM submission which kind of negates my idea of keeping it private. Brian in CA ---------------------- Brian, I agree that there is bad news here, especially when the target system for the GEDCOM is not well-behaved. I ran into this with my TNG experimentation. I have just run some additional tests in order to sort out what is happening. Results are below. In summary, I always uncheck the export box that says ‘override source options’. Otherwise, TNG bloats the source citations with unwanted text/comments from the source Detail, and also displays citations that were unwanted. But this is a compromise, because now Sourcewriter detail fields are missing (at least for the templates that I tested) – a Legacy issue. There are other TNG source-handling issues no matter which override option you choose. Ward ******* Legacy Sources On Export to GEDCOM **************** (Export to 'Legacy' GEDCOM was selected for most of these tests.) If choose to override source options: - Sourcewriter Sources: - Master source Text/Comments: Included in GEDCOM - Detail Fields: Included - Detail source Text/Comments: Included - Basic Sources: - Master source Text/Comments: Included - Detail Fields: Included - Detail source Text/Comments: Included - The source is included in the GEDCOM even if the box 'Include this citation on reports' was unchecked on the source detail panel. (There is a _CIT No tag that Legacy probably uses on re-import, but a non-Legacy target system would not.) If choose not to override source options: - The Entire citation is missing if you do not check 'Include this citation on reports' on the edit Detail panel. Otherwise... - Sourcewriter Sources: - Master source Text/Comments: Included - Detail Fields: NOT Included!! - Detail source Text/Comments: Included only if had checked 'Add this text/comments to the Source Citation on Reports. - Basic Sources: - Master source Text/Comments: Included - Detail Fields: Included only if had checked 'Add this Detail to the Source Citation on Reports' - Detail source Text/Comments: Included only if had checked 'Add this text/comments to the Source Citation on Reports. TNG Import: - Displays the source list name first, in the citation (i.e., the name that is supposed to be for internal use, only!!) - Displays no master text/comment text in the citation, or if click on the source number. - But DOES expands all the master source text/comments under the citation in the PDF report!! - Displays master source media, when click to drill down on the source number. - Displays available source detail fields in the citation, although not when drill down on the source number. (Master info only.) - Displays source detail text/comment data, if present, right in the citation!! - Displays no source detail media. (No media link.) - Displays the Description field of the Detail Media file, in the citation!! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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