Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
On 14/12/2011 04:53, Lee Irons wrote: Now imagine that Millennia provides these first three enhancements in a future upgrade. I�m all happy and use Enhancement 1 to paste an event with its source citation/detail to a family of 12 individuals. (Note, the current way I would do this is to copy the event to the Event Clipboard from the individual where I first created it and then open each of the other 11 individuals and paste the event.) The event and its source citation/detail now exists as twelve different records in the database. Three months later, I want to change something I have typed in the source citation/detail that is linked to the event. I have to open the source citation/detail of the event of each individual separately to make the change so that it is consistent in all twelve places. This is a huge headache. And I am currently living it with a file of thousands of individuals with tens of thousands of source citations/details with which I used the Source Clipboard liberally to paste common source citation/details on a regular basis. I don't think I have yet come across an instance where I have needed to make a change to multiple citations where I have not been able to use Search Replace. -- Jenny M Benson 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://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
Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:53:53 -0500, Lee Irons leeir...@cox.net wrote: Of course. Another way to accomplish enhancement #4 (and make a much more efficient database) is to reconfigure the data structure of the database so that a single source citation/detail record can be linked to any number of events in any number of individuals and marriages. So, when I link a source citation/detail to an event that is pasted to twelve different individuals, when I go back to change something in the source citation/detail three months later, I only have to change one source citation/detail record referenced by twelve event records, not twelve source citations/detail records referenced by twelve event records. This would be a major change to the way Legacy works (no more need for a source clipboard), and so would probably be a big pill for Millennia to swallow. Not only a big pill to swallow for Millennia, but for the users who are used to it working the way it does. When you change it you would have to pop up a warning that it will also be changed everywhere else, and maybe even have to offer the user the opportunity to break that shared citation into separate citations (in case the user only wants to change it for one individual and not the others). I remember discussing this on the LUG in my 1st couple of years on the LUG (and I've been here 9 years). It's probably not going to happen. The best you can probably hope for is a better search/replace to make things easier. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools/Custom Programming) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools NOTE TO LUG USERS: Use plain text if you want me to read your post. 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://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
Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
I just mentioned changing the data structure of the databaseas as one way of accomplishing enhancement #4. But there is a way to do enhancement #4 that does not involve changing the way the databse is structured, so I agree with you Dennis. I have found the search and replace feature to be tricky to use (please everyone, do not turn this thread into a discussion on search and replace). At any rate, my issues are not asociated with just replacing a word or two. I am wanting to add analysis paragraphs to the comments field of all of my source citations/details. Typing it in one source citation/detail and haveing it automatically update all of the other cource citations/details that are copies of it would save hundreds of hours. The four enhancements I recommended are not really a new feature, but just make the existing Advanced Sourcing feature complete. Also, looking at the database tables, it looks like these enhancements would be reltively easy to develop. Legacy does not need these 4 enhancements to keep many of its existing users. It needs these enhancements to keep some of its existing users. But more importantly, it needs these enhancements to pull market share from Family Tree Maker and Roots Magic, its two biggest commercial competetors. New users importing their data from other genealogy programs will need these enhancements to make cleaning up their data easier. I see this as a business decision. Low cost enhancements, big potential market share impact. Lee Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote: On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:53:53 -0500, Lee Irons leeir...@cox.net wrote: Of course. Another way to accomplish enhancement #4 (and make a much more efficient database) is to reconfigure the data structure of the database so that a single source citation/detail record can be linked to any number of events in any number of individuals and marriages. So, when I link a source citation/detail to an event that is pasted to twelve different individuals, when I go back to change something in the source citation/detail three months later, I only have to change one source citation/detail record referenced by twelve event records, not twelve source citations/detail records referenced by twelve event records. This would be a major change to the way Legacy works (no more need for a source clipboard), and so would probably be a big pill for Millennia to swallow. Not only a big pill to swallow for Millennia, but for the users who are used to it working the way it does. When you change it you would have to pop up a warning that it will also be changed everywhere else, and maybe even have to offer the user the opportunity to break that shared citation into separate citations (in case the user only wants to change it for one individual and not the others). I remember discussing this on the LUG in my 1st couple of years on the LUG (and I've been here 9 years). It's probably not going to happen. The best you can probably hope for is a better search/replace to make things easier. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools/Custom Programming) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools NOTE TO LUG USERS: Use plain text if you want me to read your post. 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://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 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://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
RE: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
Sherry got back to me on this one. Here is what I came up with to try to explain it better: Pasting an event to a tagged group of individuals (let�s call this Enhancement #1) would be a step in the right direction. Enhancement #2, another step in the right direction would be the ability in Advanced Sourcing to paste a source citation/detail from the source clipboard to a new event to be created in a tagged group of individuals. Dennis Kowallek has a tool in his LTools to create an event and paste it with an existing source citation/detail to a tagged group of individuals. However, one must know the IDSX number of the source citation/detail from tblSX in the Access database. So it would be nice to have this enhancement built into the Advanced Sourcing feature of Legacy. Another nice aid, Enhancement #3, would be the ability in Advanced Sourcing to link a source citation/detail from the source clipboard to existing events in a tagged group of individuals which events have the exact same Fact Type, Description, Date, and Place. (Currently, Advanced Sourcing only links to ALL events of tagged individuals, which is only useful if each tagged individual only has only one existing event.) Now imagine that Millennia provides these first three enhancements in a future upgrade. I�m all happy and use Enhancement 1 to paste an event with its source citation/detail to a family of 12 individuals. (Note, the current way I would do this is to copy the event to the Event Clipboard from the individual where I first created it and then open each of the other 11 individuals and paste the event.) The event and its source citation/detail now exists as twelve different records in the database. Three months later, I want to change something I have typed in the source citation/detail that is linked to the event. I have to open the source citation/detail of the event of each individual separately to make the change so that it is consistent in all twelve places. This is a huge headache. And I am currently living it with a file of thousands of individuals with tens of thousands of source citations/details with which I used the Source Clipboard liberally to paste common source citation/details on a regular basis. To help relieve me of this ongoing headache, hopefully Millennia will provide the following: Enhancement #4 � Millennia creates an enhancement that allows me to change a copied source citation/detail in all places where it has been pasted at the same time with a single change and save action. From the �Assigned Sources For� window of one of the individuals or marriages that has the source citation/detail pasted to it (or from the Sources tab of the �Name List� window), I would highlight the source citation/detail that has been copied to many places and that I want to change in all places, and then I would click on a button that says �Edit All Copies of Detail.� The program then tags all of the source citation/detail index numbers (IDSX in tblSX) that are exact copies of that source citation/detail. Then, when I�m all done making changes to that source citation/detail and click on Save, the change saves to all of the tagged source citation/detail index numbers, after which it clears the tags in preparation for the next time the feature is used. Note, Millennia has already figured out how to recognize when a source citation/detail is exactly the same as another, because the reports feature is able to print a source citation/detail that has many copies only once in the endnotes of a report. Now, I�m just asking that Millennia use a similar capability to make changes to copies source citations/details. Of course. Another way to accomplish enhancement #4 (and make a much more efficient database) is to reconfigure the data structure of the database so that a single source citation/detail record can be linked to any number of events in any number of individuals and marriages. So, when I link a source citation/detail to an event that is pasted to twelve different individuals, when I go back to change something in the source citation/detail three months later, I only have to change one source citation/detail record referenced by twelve event records, not twelve source citations/detail records referenced by twelve event records. This would be a major change to the way Legacy works (no more need for a source clipboard), and so would probably be a big pill for Millennia to swallow. The four numbered enhancements provided above essentially go together as a package. For those of you who use the source clipboard liberally like I do, what do you think? -Original Message- From: Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 1:03 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event I've been working with Lee on this and haven't figured out yet why entering an event
Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
Not that I haven't messed up and had to go thru this with a set or two of citations, but I'm doing my best now to get the citation the way I want in the clipboard(s) and add it all right the first time. Then I'm moving on to my next bit of research, because research is the fun part. I'm also a self-proclaimed recovering controlling perfectionist... trying to get myself away from having to have everything perfect... reworking, reworking, etc. So, I don't think I would use these enhancements - or at least try not to be in the position to want them. I would rather the programmers work on new features, not aids for making corrections. Just mho. --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams - Original Message From: Lee Irons leeir...@cox.net To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Tue, December 13, 2011 10:53:53 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event Sherry got back to me on this one. Here is what I came up with to try to explain it better: Pasting an event to a tagged group of individuals (let�s call this Enhancement #1) would be a step in the right direction. Enhancement #2, another step in the right direction would be the ability in Advanced Sourcing to paste a source citation/detail from the source clipboard to a new event to be created in a tagged group of individuals. Dennis Kowallek has a tool in his LTools to create an event and paste it with an existing source citation/detail to a tagged group of individuals. However, one must know the IDSX number of the source citation/detail from tblSX in the Access database. So it would be nice to have this enhancement built into the Advanced Sourcing feature of Legacy. Another nice aid, Enhancement #3, would be the ability in Advanced Sourcing to link a source citation/detail from the source clipboard to existing events in a tagged group of individuals which events have the exact same Fact Type, Description, Date, and Place. (Currently, Advanced Sourcing only links to ALL events of tagged individuals, which is only useful if each tagged individual only has only one existing event.) Now imagine that Millennia provides these first three enhancements in a future upgrade. I�m all happy and use Enhancement 1 to paste an event with its source citation/detail to a family of 12 individuals. (Note, the current way I would do this is to copy the event to the Event Clipboard from the individual where I first created it and then open each of the other 11 individuals and paste the event.) The event and its source citation/detail now exists as twelve different records in the database. Three months later, I want to change something I have typed in the source citation/detail that is linked to the event. I have to open the source citation/detail of the event of each individual separately to make the change so that it is consistent in all twelve places. This is a huge headache. And I am currently living it with a file of thousands of individuals with tens of thousands of source citations/details with which I used the Source Clipboard liberally to paste common source citation/details on a regular basis. To help relieve me of this ongoing headache, hopefully Millennia will provide the following: Enhancement #4 � Millennia creates an enhancement that allows me to change a copied source citation/detail in all places where it has been pasted at the same time with a single change and save action. From the �Assigned Sources For� window of one of the individuals or marriages that has the source citation/detail pasted to it (or from the Sources tab of the �Name List� window), I would highlight the source citation/detail that has been copied to many places and that I want to change in all places, and then I would click on a button that says �Edit All Copies of Detail.� The program then tags all of the source citation/detail index numbers (IDSX in tblSX) that are exact copies of that source citation/detail. Then, when I�m all done making changes to that source citation/detail and click on Save, the change saves to all of the tagged source citation/detail index numbers, after which it clears the tags in preparation for the next time the feature is used. Note, Millennia has already figured out how to recognize when a source citation/detail is exactly the same as another, because the reports feature is able to print a source citation/detail that has many copies only once in the endnotes of a report. Now, I�m just asking that Millennia use a similar capability to make changes to copies source citations/details. Of course. Another way to accomplish enhancement #4 (and make a much more efficient database
Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
Won't the Event Clipboard work? (strong possibility I don't understand what you are trying to do) --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams - Original Message From: leeir...@cox.net leeir...@cox.net To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Cc: Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com Sent: Fri, December 9, 2011 7:45:35 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event My primary desire would be adding a source citation to a new event that I create right after I create the source citation, followed immediately by attaching the new event to the individuals to which the event applies. My fall-back desire is to attach a common source citation to an common event that is already attached to the individuals. Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 20:21:50 -0500, leeir...@cox.net wrote: Your Add Events in LTools looks like what I am looking for. The way I read your original post, I was under the impression that you had already added the events. But if you haven't, then my Add Events should make your life easier. I also am interested in your Merge Basic to Sourcewriter Source. Read this first... http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/msg39390.html This is all my Merge Basic to SourceWriter Source does. Richard Van Wasshnova can help with this. I don't personally use V7 so my knowledge regarding SW sources is minimal. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools/Custom Programming) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools NOTE TO LUG USERS: Use plain text if you want me to read your post. 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://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 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://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 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://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
Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
I've been working with Lee on this and haven't figured out yet why entering an event in one individual, sourcing it and then adding the event to the Event Clipboard, which would include the source data and any files linked to in the Picture Gallery for that event, wouldn't work for him. The only other thing I could think of was possibly passing on an enhancement request to add the Source Clipboard to a tagged group, focus group or search list of individiuals. It's quite possible that I'm missing his point entirely! Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Won't the Event Clipboard work? (strong possibility I don't understand what you are trying to do) --Paula in Texas 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://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
[LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
Through Advanced Sourcing, I would like to link the Source Citation/Detail on my Source Clipboard to one selected event (identified by the same Event Type, Date, Place, and Description) that is common to all individuals or marriages I have selected on the Which Records to Use Tab. Unfortunately, Advanced Sourcing seems to only allow linking the Source Citation/Detail to all events of all individuals or marriages I have selected on the Which Records to Use Tab. Is there something I am missing, or is this something that Legacy just can't do? If Legacy just can;t do this, are there plans to have this capability in a future release? Lee 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://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
Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:37:34 -0500, leeir...@cox.net wrote: Through Advanced Sourcing, I would like to link the Source Citation/Detail on my Source Clipboard to one selected event (identified by the same Event Type, Date, Place, and Description) that is common to all individuals or marriages I have selected on the Which Records to Use Tab. Unfortunately, Advanced Sourcing seems to only allow linking the Source Citation/Detail to all events of all individuals or marriages I have selected on the Which Records to Use Tab. Is there something I am missing, or is this something that Legacy just can't do? If Legacy just can;t do this, are there plans to have this capability in a future release? Millennia doesn't comment on future enhancements, but yours is the first time I have ever heard of this need. Ergo I doubt if a feature like this would have much, if any, pent up demand. But you can always submit the suggestion to the programmers. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools/Custom Programming) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools NOTE TO LUG USERS: Use plain text if you want me to read your post. 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://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
[LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
Through Advanced Sourcing, I would like to link the Source Citation/Detail on my Source Clipboard to one selected event (identified by the same Event Type, Date, Place, and Description) that is common to all individuals or marriages I have selected on the Which Records to Use Tab. Unfortunately, Advanced Sourcing seems to only allow linking the Source Citation/Detail to all events of all individuals or marriages I have selected on the Which Records to Use Tab. Is there something I am missing, or is this something that Legacy just can't do? If Legacy just can;t do this, are there plans to have this capability in a future release? 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://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
Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
Thanks for the response Dennis, Millenia seems to have had a demand at some point for the Advanced Sourcing capability, otherwise we would not even have it. Right now, advanced sourcing can be done for other individual attributes and note fields. Quite a variety. It can even be done for events. But when Events is selected, it attaches the source citation/detail on the clipboard to all of the events currently attached to each selected individual/marriage, which I'm not sure why anyone would ever want to do that. It just seems like Millenia was on their way to doing it, but then just didn't finish the development before releasing the advanced sourcing capability. And then they just never got back to it. I have put the request in to the developers, but the only response I am getting is that they think I should already be able to do it. I notice the developers occassionally respond to messages on the user group, so I'm just putting it out there to the entire group. If this cannot be done and is not planned, does anyone have any ideas on how to have fewer clicks and windows to go through to attach the source clipboard to an event attached to mulitple individuals (or even the event clipboard). Currently, we have to click around to all of the individuals and paste the source individually to events or paste the events individually. This is a very time consuming process. Family Tree Maker 2012 has the ability to attach source citations to selected events from the equivalent of their advanced sourcing window. Roots Masic 5 has the ability to share an event (with attached source citations with multiple individuals from a single window. It just seems like everyone else is making this easier. Why wouldn't Millenia? Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:37:34 -0500, leeir...@cox.net wrote: Through Advanced Sourcing, I would like to link the Source Citation/Detail on my Source Clipboard to one selected event (identified by the same Event Type, Date, Place, and Description) that is common to all individuals or marriages I have selected on the Which Records to Use Tab. Unfortunately, Advanced Sourcing seems to only allow linking the Source Citation/Detail to all events of all individuals or marriages I have selected on the Which Records to Use Tab. Is there something I am missing, or is this something that Legacy just can't do? If Legacy just can;t do this, are there plans to have this capability in a future release? Millennia doesn't comment on future enhancements, but yours is the first time I have ever heard of this need. Ergo I doubt if a feature like this would have much, if any, pent up demand. But you can always submit the suggestion to the programmers. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools/Custom Programming) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools NOTE TO LUG USERS: Use plain text if you want me to read your post. 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://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 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://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
Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 19:05:39 -0500, leeir...@cox.net wrote: It just seems like Millenia was on their way to doing it, but then just didn't finish the development before releasing the advanced sourcing capability. And then they just never got back to it. I can't read minds so I don't know if Millennia had plans beyond the current version of advanced sourcing. I don't see anything to indicate that they intended to go further. It just seems like everyone else is making this easier. Why wouldn't Millenia? Like I said, I have been on this list for 9 years and don't recall ever seeing a feature request like yours. There have been discussions regarding the sharing of source citations, but this is not the same as what you are asking for. And shared events have also been discussed. *** If you can drum up additional support for your feature on this list ... go for it. But Millennia will not spill the beans on this list regarding future enhancements. The only way you might be privy to that kind of info is if you are invited to join the Legacy beta test list. *** Of course, there is always the option of commissioning an LTool. ;-) Happy Holidays! -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools/Custom Programming) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools NOTE TO LUG USERS: Use plain text if you want me to read your post. 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://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
Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
You say I have put the request in to the developers, but the only response I am getting is that they think I should already be able to do it. In which case one would have thought they would have told you how. Ron Ferguson http://ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk -Original Message- From: leeir...@cox.net Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 12:05 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event Thanks for the response Dennis, Millenia seems to have had a demand at some point for the Advanced Sourcing capability, otherwise we would not even have it. Right now, advanced sourcing can be done for other individual attributes and note fields. Quite a variety. It can even be done for events. But when Events is selected, it attaches the source citation/detail on the clipboard to all of the events currently attached to each selected individual/marriage, which I'm not sure why anyone would ever want to do that. It just seems like Millenia was on their way to doing it, but then just didn't finish the development before releasing the advanced sourcing capability. And then they just never got back to it. I have put the request in to the developers, but the only response I am getting is that they think I should already be able to do it. I notice the developers occassionally respond to messages on the user group, so I'm just putting it out there to the entire group. If this cannot be done and is not planned, does anyone have any ideas on how to have fewer clicks and windows to go through to attach the source clipboard to an event attached to mulitple individuals (or even the event clipboard). Currently, we have to click around to all of the individuals and paste the source individually to events or paste the events individually. This is a very time consuming process. Family Tree Maker 2012 has the ability to attach source citations to selected events from the equivalent of their advanced sourcing window. Roots Masic 5 has the ability to share an event (with attached source citations with multiple individuals from a single window. It just seems like everyone else is making this easier. Why wouldn't Millenia? Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:37:34 -0500, leeir...@cox.net wrote: Through Advanced Sourcing, I would like to link the Source Citation/Detail on my Source Clipboard to one selected event (identified by the same Event Type, Date, Place, and Description) that is common to all individuals or marriages I have selected on the Which Records to Use Tab. Unfortunately, Advanced Sourcing seems to only allow linking the Source Citation/Detail to all events of all individuals or marriages I have selected on the Which Records to Use Tab. Is there something I am missing, or is this something that Legacy just can't do? If Legacy just can;t do this, are there plans to have this capability in a future release? Millennia doesn't comment on future enhancements, but yours is the first time I have ever heard of this need. Ergo I doubt if a feature like this would have much, if any, pent up demand. But you can always submit the suggestion to the programmers. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools/Custom Programming) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools NOTE TO LUG USERS: Use plain text if you want me to read your post. 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://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
Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
I agree Ron. I have twice sent followon messages to my ticket number over the past three days asking if it is something they would consider or not, and I am getting no response (after the initial response of , but you should be able to do what you want to do and my explanation that I can't). I have brought up shared source citations and shared events in the past (I have been on here a long time, though I'm not prolific with the messages), but this does not seem to go anywhere either. That is what I would really like to see, but in the interim, the ability to link source citations to selected events through advanced sourcing would be adequate. Just trying to ask for a slight plus up of existing capability. In my post, I also asked for an idea on how I could do what I am trying to do without so much effort required to click around. But I seem to be getting the same non-reponse to this question as from Millenia. Crickets. I guess the silence is telling me that no one has figured out a quick way to link a common event to mulitple individuals in Legacy, or a quick way to attach a common source citation to selected existing events of multiple individuals. Either way, Legacy users have to copy it once to a clipboard and then click around to open each individual's edit window one at a time. The other two of the top three software packages seem to think it is a big deal. Not sure why it does not seem to have any attention or attraction with Millenia. Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: You say I have put the request in to the developers, but the only response I am getting is that they think I should already be able to do it. In which case one would have thought they would have told you how. Ron Ferguson http://ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk -Original Message- From: leeir...@cox.net Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 12:05 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event Thanks for the response Dennis, Millenia seems to have had a demand at some point for the Advanced Sourcing capability, otherwise we would not even have it. Right now, advanced sourcing can be done for other individual attributes and note fields. Quite a variety. It can even be done for events. But when Events is selected, it attaches the source citation/detail on the clipboard to all of the events currently attached to each selected individual/marriage, which I'm not sure why anyone would ever want to do that. It just seems like Millenia was on their way to doing it, but then just didn't finish the development before releasing the advanced sourcing capability. And then they just never got back to it. I have put the request in to the developers, but the only response I am getting is that they think I should already be able to do it. I notice the developers occassionally respond to messages on the user group, so I'm just putting it out there to the entire group. If this cannot be done and is not planned, does anyone have any ideas on how to have fewer clicks and windows to go through to attach the source clipboard to an event attached to mulitple individuals (or even the event clipboard). Currently, we have to click around to all of the individuals and paste the source individually to events or paste the events individually. This is a very time consuming process. Family Tree Maker 2012 has the ability to attach source citations to selected events from the equivalent of their advanced sourcing window. Roots Masic 5 has the ability to share an event (with attached source citations with multiple individuals from a single window. It just seems like everyone else is making this easier. Why wouldn't Millenia? Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:37:34 -0500, leeir...@cox.net wrote: Through Advanced Sourcing, I would like to link the Source Citation/Detail on my Source Clipboard to one selected event (identified by the same Event Type, Date, Place, and Description) that is common to all individuals or marriages I have selected on the Which Records to Use Tab. Unfortunately, Advanced Sourcing seems to only allow linking the Source Citation/Detail to all events of all individuals or marriages I have selected on the Which Records to Use Tab. Is there something I am missing, or is this something that Legacy just can't do? If Legacy just can;t do this, are there plans to have this capability in a future release? Millennia doesn't comment on future enhancements, but yours is the first time I have ever heard of this need. Ergo I doubt if a feature like this would have much, if any, pent up demand. But you can always submit the suggestion to the programmers. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools/Custom Programming) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools NOTE TO LUG USERS
Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
I'm not asking you to read minds, Dennis. :-) I'll look at your LTools website and get back to you. :-) Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 19:05:39 -0500, leeir...@cox.net wrote: It just seems like Millenia was on their way to doing it, but then just didn't finish the development before releasing the advanced sourcing capability. And then they just never got back to it. I can't read minds so I don't know if Millennia had plans beyond the current version of advanced sourcing. I don't see anything to indicate that they intended to go further. It just seems like everyone else is making this easier. Why wouldn't Millenia? Like I said, I have been on this list for 9 years and don't recall ever seeing a feature request like yours. There have been discussions regarding the sharing of source citations, but this is not the same as what you are asking for. And shared events have also been discussed. *** If you can drum up additional support for your feature on this list ... go for it. But Millennia will not spill the beans on this list regarding future enhancements. The only way you might be privy to that kind of info is if you are invited to join the Legacy beta test list. *** Of course, there is always the option of commissioning an LTool. ;-) Happy Holidays! -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools/Custom Programming) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools NOTE TO LUG USERS: Use plain text if you want me to read your post. 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://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 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://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
Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
Dennis, Your Add Events in LTools looks like what I am looking for. I also am interested in your Merge Basic to Sourcewriter Source. You sold me. See, I'm easy. I'm purchasing it right now and trying it. :-) leeir...@cox.net wrote: I'm not asking you to read minds, Dennis. :-) I'll look at your LTools website and get back to you. :-) Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 19:05:39 -0500, leeir...@cox.net wrote: It just seems like Millenia was on their way to doing it, but then just didn't finish the development before releasing the advanced sourcing capability. And then they just never got back to it. I can't read minds so I don't know if Millennia had plans beyond the current version of advanced sourcing. I don't see anything to indicate that they intended to go further. It just seems like everyone else is making this easier. Why wouldn't Millenia? Like I said, I have been on this list for 9 years and don't recall ever seeing a feature request like yours. There have been discussions regarding the sharing of source citations, but this is not the same as what you are asking for. And shared events have also been discussed. *** If you can drum up additional support for your feature on this list ... go for it. But Millennia will not spill the beans on this list regarding future enhancements. The only way you might be privy to that kind of info is if you are invited to join the Legacy beta test list. *** Of course, there is always the option of commissioning an LTool. ;-) Happy Holidays! -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools/Custom Programming) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools NOTE TO LUG USERS: Use plain text if you want me to read your post. 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://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 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://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 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://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
Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
I confess that I have not tried to do what you wish, but before my last post I did take a good look at the Advanced Sourcing feature and I cannot see how it can be done at present. As I see it, to make it work it work be necessary, for the Event box to link with the Event Master list so that individual Events can be selected. This might not be the only way, but it is one which comes to mind, and I would have thought that this would not be too difficult to program - but I would bow to Dennis's expertise on this. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: leeir...@cox.net Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 1:01 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event I agree Ron. I have twice sent followon messages to my ticket number over the past three days asking if it is something they would consider or not, and I am getting no response (after the initial response of , but you should be able to do what you want to do and my explanation that I can't). I have brought up shared source citations and shared events in the past (I have been on here a long time, though I'm not prolific with the messages), but this does not seem to go anywhere either. That is what I would really like to see, but in the interim, the ability to link source citations to selected events through advanced sourcing would be adequate. Just trying to ask for a slight plus up of existing capability. In my post, I also asked for an idea on how I could do what I am trying to do without so much effort required to click around. But I seem to be getting the same non-reponse to this question as from Millenia. Crickets. I guess the silence is telling me that no one has figured out a quick way to link a common event to mulitple individuals in Legacy, or a quick way to attach a common source citation to selected existing events of multiple individuals. Either way, Legacy users have to copy it once to a clipboard and then click around to open each individual's edit window one at a time. The other two of the top three software packages seem to think it is a big deal. Not sure why it does not seem to have any attention or attraction with Millenia. Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: You say I have put the request in to the developers, but the only response I am getting is that they think I should already be able to do it. In which case one would have thought they would have told you how. Ron Ferguson http://ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk -Original Message- From: leeir...@cox.net Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 12:05 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event Thanks for the response Dennis, Millenia seems to have had a demand at some point for the Advanced Sourcing capability, otherwise we would not even have it. Right now, advanced sourcing can be done for other individual attributes and note fields. Quite a variety. It can even be done for events. But when Events is selected, it attaches the source citation/detail on the clipboard to all of the events currently attached to each selected individual/marriage, which I'm not sure why anyone would ever want to do that. It just seems like Millenia was on their way to doing it, but then just didn't finish the development before releasing the advanced sourcing capability. And then they just never got back to it. I have put the request in to the developers, but the only response I am getting is that they think I should already be able to do it. I notice the developers occassionally respond to messages on the user group, so I'm just putting it out there to the entire group. If this cannot be done and is not planned, does anyone have any ideas on how to have fewer clicks and windows to go through to attach the source clipboard to an event attached to mulitple individuals (or even the event clipboard). Currently, we have to click around to all of the individuals and paste the source individually to events or paste the events individually. This is a very time consuming process. Family Tree Maker 2012 has the ability to attach source citations to selected events from the equivalent of their advanced sourcing window. Roots Masic 5 has the ability to share an event (with attached source citations with multiple individuals from a single window. It just seems like everyone else is making this easier. Why wouldn't Millenia? Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:37:34 -0500, leeir...@cox.net wrote: Through Advanced Sourcing, I would like to link the Source Citation/Detail on my Source Clipboard to one selected event (identified by the same Event Type, Date, Place, and Description) that is common to all individuals or marriages I have selected on the Which Records to Use Tab. Unfortunately, Advanced Sourcing seems to only
Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 20:21:50 -0500, leeir...@cox.net wrote: Your Add Events in LTools looks like what I am looking for. The way I read your original post, I was under the impression that you had already added the events. But if you haven't, then my Add Events should make your life easier. I also am interested in your Merge Basic to Sourcewriter Source. Read this first... http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/msg39390.html This is all my Merge Basic to SourceWriter Source does. Richard Van Wasshnova can help with this. I don't personally use V7 so my knowledge regarding SW sources is minimal. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools/Custom Programming) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools NOTE TO LUG USERS: Use plain text if you want me to read your post. 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://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
Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
Exactly. To me, it just seems like just a little extra that would go a long way in making things much easier. By the way, by Event Master List, I assume you are referring to the Event Definition Master List or the All Individuals Who Use This Event Name list that one can get to through the Event Definition Master List? Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: I confess that I have not tried to do what you wish, but before my last post I did take a good look at the Advanced Sourcing feature and I cannot see how it can be done at present. As I see it, to make it work it work be necessary, for the Event box to link with the Event Master list so that individual Events can be selected. This might not be the only way, but it is one which comes to mind, and I would have thought that this would not be too difficult to program - but I would bow to Dennis's expertise on this. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: leeir...@cox.net Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 1:01 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event I agree Ron. I have twice sent followon messages to my ticket number over the past three days asking if it is something they would consider or not, and I am getting no response (after the initial response of , but you should be able to do what you want to do and my explanation that I can't). I have brought up shared source citations and shared events in the past (I have been on here a long time, though I'm not prolific with the messages), but this does not seem to go anywhere either. That is what I would really like to see, but in the interim, the ability to link source citations to selected events through advanced sourcing would be adequate. Just trying to ask for a slight plus up of existing capability. In my post, I also asked for an idea on how I could do what I am trying to do without so much effort required to click around. But I seem to be getting the same non-reponse to this question as from Millenia. Crickets. I guess the silence is telling me that no one has figured out a quick way to link a common event to mulitple individuals in Legacy, or a quick way to attach a common source citation to selected existing events of multiple individuals. Either way, Legacy users have to copy it once to a clipboard and then click around to open each individual's edit window one at a time. The other two of the top three software packages seem to think it is a big deal. Not sure why it does not seem to have any attention or attraction with Millenia. Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: You say I have put the request in to the developers, but the only response I am getting is that they think I should already be able to do it. In which case one would have thought they would have told you how. Ron Ferguson http://ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk -Original Message- From: leeir...@cox.net Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 12:05 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event Thanks for the response Dennis, Millenia seems to have had a demand at some point for the Advanced Sourcing capability, otherwise we would not even have it. Right now, advanced sourcing can be done for other individual attributes and note fields. Quite a variety. It can even be done for events. But when Events is selected, it attaches the source citation/detail on the clipboard to all of the events currently attached to each selected individual/marriage, which I'm not sure why anyone would ever want to do that. It just seems like Millenia was on their way to doing it, but then just didn't finish the development before releasing the advanced sourcing capability. And then they just never got back to it. I have put the request in to the developers, but the only response I am getting is that they think I should already be able to do it. I notice the developers occassionally respond to messages on the user group, so I'm just putting it out there to the entire group. If this cannot be done and is not planned, does anyone have any ideas on how to have fewer clicks and windows to go through to attach the source clipboard to an event attached to mulitple individuals (or even the event clipboard). Currently, we have to click around to all of the individuals and paste the source individually to events or paste the events individually. This is a very time consuming process. Family Tree Maker 2012 has the ability to attach source citations to selected events from the equivalent of their advanced sourcing window. Roots Masic 5 has the ability to share an event (with attached source citations with multiple individuals from a single window. It just seems like everyone else is making this easier. Why wouldn't
Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing to One Selected Event
My primary desire would be adding a source citation to a new event that I create right after I create the source citation, followed immediately by attaching the new event to the individuals to which the event applies. My fall-back desire is to attach a common source citation to an common event that is already attached to the individuals. Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 20:21:50 -0500, leeir...@cox.net wrote: Your Add Events in LTools looks like what I am looking for. The way I read your original post, I was under the impression that you had already added the events. But if you haven't, then my Add Events should make your life easier. I also am interested in your Merge Basic to Sourcewriter Source. Read this first... http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/msg39390.html This is all my Merge Basic to SourceWriter Source does. Richard Van Wasshnova can help with this. I don't personally use V7 so my knowledge regarding SW sources is minimal. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools/Custom Programming) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools NOTE TO LUG USERS: Use plain text if you want me to read your post. 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://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 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://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
