Wendy, I completely agree with William.post just gave me an inspiration!
I d not see why anyone would need 5 sources to be applied at one time either. As this could lead to major problems for the 'average' user I think this should be an opt-in option. With a popup warning "Are you sure Y/N? That wasn't the inspiration. It is: rather than saving 10 sources to the clipboard how about selecting the ones desired from the Sources Master List? Assuming that one would not be entering from 5 new sources at the same time. For the life of me I cannot fathom why one would EVER need to do this! Larry Lee ldlee...@gmail.com On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Wendy Howard <wendy.how...@gmail.com>wrote: > Don't forget that it is very quick to either reload a saved source, or > copy an existing source to the Source Clipboard. > > I have some long projects going on, that I return to from time to time > in-between other bits and pieces in the family tree. Rather than > setting up the Source Clipboard from scratch when I come back to a > project, I recall the information from a previously-applied/saved > source. This ensures there are no differences that result in separate > source citations where-ever possible. > > Usually, I go to someone in the tree where I've already entered data > from the same source, and copy that source to the clipboard using the > "Copy Source to Clipboard" icon in the bottom left-hand corner of the > Assigned Sources window. I then make any updates needed (usually just > the recorded date changed to today), and it's ready to use. > > Alternately, I could have saved that source using the Save button in the > bottom right-hand corner of the Source Clipboard window, and then used > the Load button to retrieve it next time I wanted to use it. This could > be an answer to the situation Jenny described. > > I've saved one one of these long-project sources just now as I type, to > check out how it works, and it's just as quick to load a saved source as > it is to copy an existing source to the clipboard. When I go to load > that saved source back into the clipboard, I could assign it to any of > the five source tabs I wanted to, if I was going to use more than one > source at a time. > > William said in his post "This sounds like a feature that should have > stayed gone. It sounds like an accident waiting to happen when someone > inadvertently goes to apply what they think is one source then applies > up to five." > > As I said before, I've never had a use for five sources all at the same > time - but plenty of people here on this list have said they did when it > was available before. In this incarnation you have the option of > showing one or five sources, which we didn't have before. > > Kind Regards, > Wendy > > > Kathy Thompson said the following on 13/01/2014 12:26 a.m.: > > Thanks David, Wendy & Jenny. > > > > If all 5 are pasted at once, I'm not in favour of it afterall. > > > > I had hoped to be able to use the 5 sources selectively when entering > > a newly found / newly source-proved family. > > > > Thanks for the explanations everyone. > > > > > > On 12 January 2014 20:46, Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk > > <mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk>> wrote: > > > > On 12/01/2014 08:46, Wendy Howard wrote: > > > When you've set up as many sources (up to five) as you need, you > can > > > then apply those sources to any item of data you enter into your > > > database. You can only apply all the set-up sources together, > > you can't > > > pick and choose which one you'll use. > > > > Which is the only way this "multi-clipboard" feature would be of > > any use > > to me. > > > > Very often one is entering the details of a new-found family, > > including > > perhaps entries for BMDs from Indexes, and Census entries. The same > > Master Sources for every person, just differing in Detail. Being > able > > to put several of these Sources on the Clipboard and then SELECTIVELY > > paste them would be a bit time saver, but pasting all of them to each > > person is just not required. > > > > -- > > 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 > > > 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). 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