Jan & Dennis, Thank you for your clarification of the what happens when the event definition is changed. Been nice if the Legacy folks would have put some mention of this in the manual.
Thanks Jan for the step by step of how I can check to see who was changed retroactivity. Going to be a big job as I have many events that were changed. Guess I will have to: 1. Probably best to first revert each event back to the default one. 2. go to each event [looks like a gazillion of them] 3. do show list [looks like another gazillion of them for each event] 4. print these out or tag them, probably best to print out for step 6. 5. check each one to see how the sentence reads 6. note the ones with the incorrect sentences 7. make a different events ie if I was using Education for attended, graduated then I need to make separate events Attended school and Graduated. 8. delete the ones with the incorrect sentence 9. re-enter in the new event All this because nothing was mentioned in the manual or if it is I don't see it in pages 85-87. Jan I am VERY glad you wrote about this. If not for you I would have never know this was retroactive. I appreciate you. Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 7:22 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Event Definition was Printing notes in reports > Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but yes all changes to the Event > Sentence Definition 'stick' for EVERY use of the event. Therefore, if you > used an event yesterday (or four years ago) and today you changed the > Sentence Definition (as opposed to the Sentence Override) those changes > would be made to EVERY use of the event - ie those times you used the > event > in the past as well as any future uses of the event. If you want to make > a > change to how the sentence reads for a specific person you need to use > Sentence Override. > To find out where you have used the event, and therefore check to see if > the > sentence still reads correctly in all instances you can go to View > > Master > Lists > Event Definitions. From the list select an event you want to > check, > then click the "Show List" button. This brings up a list of everyone with > that event. You can either print the list then go back to check each one, > or you can tag everyone in the list (with an unused tag number) for ease > of > locating each person to check how the sentence reads. > > Hope this helps, > Cheers > Jan > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
