Jay, Your work-around will only work if the attached item is a picture file that Legacy recognizes such as the scans of documents you mention. It does not work for any other type of file like the pdf, docx etc. files the original poster is using.
Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -- On 26/07/2013 4:13 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree wrote: > Unfortunately, the "work - around" is to create an event to link the image > or document to. > These "events" will show in the ancestor and descendant reports. > > So, for instance I have a "Tombstone" event, which is basically a > duplication of the "Burial Place Picture" > Then a "Birth Record - Civil" event which is a duplication of Birth Record > picture where I have the scan of the birth record. > Same for "Marriage Record" which is a duplication of the Marriage Record > picture, for a scan of the marriage record document (or attached as a > "file" if it is a .pdf ) > > Then make sure that your report settings you have checked the include event > pictures box. > > It works well, but someday maybe Legacy will fix the issue so that you dont > have to duplicate the data in order to show the linked media. > > > Jay Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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
