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
