Dennis and Ron: You both brought up excellent points and, not knowing how the program operates, I'm unable to answer except to say that if the word "someone" is coded into the program to be automatically added to reports when a name field is left blank, then it should be fairly simple to eliminate that code when a name is added. With software as smart as Legacy, I think it could distinguish between a code that generates the word "someone" in a report and the actual name "Someone" typed by the user in the name field.
As I've said before, it's a small problem and I don't want to make a fuss about it, but I hate it when software automatically creates something silly and unexpected; I make enough silly errors on my own without help from Legacy <G>. Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Dennis M. Kowallek Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 11:46 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Someone On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 11:39:22 -0800, "Kirsten Bowman" <vik...@rvi.net> wrote: >Seems like a bug to me. If only one member of a couple is entered along >with marriage information, then the inclusion of "someone" in the report >wording would be appropriate. When the second person's name is added later, >it seems that name should then simply override or cancel out the "someone" >instead of having it become "someone John Jones" and/or instead of having to >go through the extra steps that you listed. I'm thinking that if a blank >name field would trigger addition of the word "someone" in a report, then >adding a name to the field should likewise toggle the "someone" off. Am I >misinterpreting the way the program works? But does the program know how the word "someone" got placed there in the first place? Does it know that it is there because it (the program) put it there? Or is the word "someone" there because a user put it there? If the latter, should the program automatically correct it? I don't have a horse in this race because I use V6. I just wanted to point out something to consider. -- Dennis Kowallek http://ltools.kowallekfamily.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
