Hi Leonard: Thanks for your reply! Yes I realize that I can change the sentences themselves, but unfortunately I cannot independently change the Source Details. If I make any change to i.e. Witnesses, the change is copied to the main person.
I would like to be able to edit the Source Detail for "shared individuals" without affecting the Source Detail of the "main individual". L Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 06:27:23 +0100 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Shared Detail Text From: legacy8.swed...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sentences can be changed for roles and/or events. They are changed the same way you make these changes in Legacy 7.5. Just a little information. On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 4:52 AM, lio . <likeitouts...@hotmail.com> wrote: HI David: Thanks for your reply. Sadly I agree. As much as I was hoping the Shared Events feature would be a time saver, I would never be happy knowing the Detail Text was not consistent with the rest of my work. But I do like having Witnesses, Informants (and other roles) having their own events (something I was not doing previously). So, I guess the best way forward is to create templates for these events (do you agree?). Does anyone have examples of templates they have created for Witness and or Informant events (I'll check the Archives also)? I'm going to spend some time tomorrow looking at all the new Shared Event Roles in Legacy 8 and try to come up with Event templates for them. Thanks David and anyone else with suggestions. Leo NOTE: I am also going to put in the suggestion / request that Shared Event text have the ability to be edited. I'm sure I can't be the only Legacy user who would find this feature helpful. > From: davidnew...@drdavid.plus.com > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Shared Detail Text > Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:39:37 +0000 > > As I understand it when sharing an event the whole of the original > event, description, date, location, notes is shared. In order to add > details specific to the individuals sharing the event you assign them a > role and then you can add notes which apply only to them when you edit > their role. > > Frankly, from your description of the method you are using I cannot see > any advantage to using shared events. Those of us who have copy/pasted > events and hence produced multiple copies of the same source material, > there is some advantage to using shared events. In particular if, like > me, you make frequent errors when transcribing, I'm not sure it is worth > the effort of sharing events which have already been entered correctly. > > David > > On 19/12/2013 23:48, lio . wrote: > > I split my sources... each document is its own Master Source. I > > transcribe the full document into the Master Source Text, and then cut > > and past the sentence(s) into the Detail Text that help prove what I > > want to prove. So the five people listed on a document (example), would > > share the same Master Source Text, but have their own Detail Text. (Hope > > that is clear). > > > > I've just started using the Shared Events feature. I now see what people > > have reported on LUG about the Source Details. If you change anything > > for the shared people, it also changes the information for the main > > person. I'm now putting information in the Notes section that I would > > normally have in the Detail Text. > > > > Is this something that is already being looked at by the developers? Or > > should I request this update? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Leo 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
