On 5 Oct 2006 ronald ferguson wrote: > I don't think so Dave. I set "Prompt for Detail" ages ago and have not > had to touch it since. After clocking the bar icons the edit detail > page always crops up.
You are of course correct. I was thinking about the way it used to work in an earlier version -- I think ver. 4. when there was a real Event Clipboard. What happens now is that there are 2 clipboards -- the Source Clipboard and the Event Clipboard. The latter isn't really a clipboard -- it used to be -- it is now the actual event that was "copied" and it includes that event's source and source detail. BTW, this change is one I really disliked as it prevents making changes to an event after saving it, as the "saved" event is then also changed (because they are one and the same). So now I have to remember the change and then go back and make it after all pastings of that event have been completed. The "saved" event doesn't have a "Prompt for Detail". So for Pat to get what she wants she needs to also go to the the Assigned Sources window and copy that event's sourcing to the Source Clipboard by clicking the Copy Source to Clipboard icon. Then she can have a "Prompt for Detail". One *big* caution here for everyone . . . if you save an event to the Event Clipboard, don't think that the Source Clipboard now contains the sourcing for that event -- it doesn't! So when pasting an event and its source and you come across something else that needs the same source you must do as mentioned above and copy that event's sourcing to the Source Clipboard in order to re-use it. Cheers, -- Dave N. -- David Naylor, Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada. --- Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
