I'm not advocating one side or the other to this potential programming change but I'm just curious as to why the change is up to the programmers. You'd think the design and direction of the software would be an executive decision or at least coming from a management design team. Programmers usually don't make this decisions as they are just told what to accomplish and are left in the dark with the mushroom fertilizer.
Brian in CA No anxiety here. No rain either. -----Original Message----- From: Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 1:35 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Mark a PERSON as Never Married? It's already on the suggestion list. Whether or not the programmers will change it back is up to them Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Jim Terry/Support <jimte...@legacyusers.com> wrote: > John, > > You seem to have a lot of anxiety over this issue, to the point of > having hallucinations. If you want to submit this as a suggestion for > an enhancement to the Legacy program, please visit > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Suggest.asp. We are always seeking new > ways to make Legacy better. > > Jim, > Legacy Technical Support > > > > -------- Original Message -------- >> From: "John Lisle" <leg...@johnlisle.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 12:38 PM >> To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Mark a PERSON as Never Married? >> >> JIm, >> >> Sure... I do it all the time, but I was not talking about marriage > status. >> >> I was talking about the checkbox "This person was never married and >> has no children" which is the subject of this thread. >> >> I know that a user can decide that the word "married" in that >> checkbox can mean whatever they want it to mean, but I hallucinate >> that most users assume it means just what it says "married" - formal >> ceremony with "binding" contract assumption. >> >> But, with the checkbox being a combination of two attributes and no >> way to identify what means married, the use of the checkbox will be, >> in my opinion, inconsistent or ambiguous between various users. >> >> john. 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). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
