Colin,
I import all data and media links from a Legacy Gedcom, although TNG can also be used to create/edit records. Two issues I've had with the imports, which I do about every two weeks: * Media dates do not show automatically in TNG because Legacy uses a custom Gedcom tag “_DATE”. I preprocess the Legacy Gedcom in Excel to get the date added to the Description field, which TNG shows as a Note. I believe other TNG users put the date directly into the Description field in Legacy to get TNG to recognize it straight away. * TNG does not currently support shared events, and again I have to preprocess the Legacy Gedcom to get the shared events distributed to all individuals in TNG. Other TNG users have not used shared events in Legacy to avoid this problem. But, the good news is that the upcoming revision to TNG (a month or so away) is supposed to include shared events for the first time. I hope it is compatible with Legacy; should be because Darrin Lythgoes, the owner of TNG, has solicited input from Legacy users in writing the revision. FYI – I am very happy with the choice I made a year ago to combine Legacy and TNG as my means of managing and presenting my family tree. Donald Quigley Escondido, CA Quigley Doyle Family Tree <http://www.donquigley.net/> -----Original Message----- From: Colin McCullough [mailto:co...@lugtons.co.nz] Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 11:43 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Mods / Utilities for Legacy Hi Don Had a look at TNG from your link. I too am interested in what TNG might and could do for my set up. Does the info of legacy get via ged com process to integrate with TNG or is it built from scratch? Considering at this stage Just following the post Colin McCullough -----Original Message----- From: Don Quigley [ <mailto:dwquig...@cox.net> mailto:dwquig...@cox.net] Sent: Tuesday, 9 February 2016 8:38 a.m. To: <mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com> legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Mods / Utilities for Legacy Thanks for your reply, Brian. I suspected about as much as you've stated. TNG (The Next Generation of Generation of Sitebuilding, <http://www.tngsitebuilding.com/> http://www.tngsitebuilding.com/ ) is what I use to as a website to display my family tree that I manage in Legacy. I guess you could call it "open source" in that the PHP scripts can be modified - and often with quite useful improvements. The better "mods" seem to eventually become part of TNG upgrades. What I was looking for with Legacy was "utility" mods that could do things that are not currently built into Legacy - such as reports tailored to user needs, and simple Excel/Access editing or searching of Legacy databases. I know you didn't support LTools, and because it was a commercial product, there were probably impediments to using a good idea from it (or any other 3rd-party program) in subsequent versions of Legacy. It just seems that if there were an active community of Legacy users (as there is for TNG), with the ability to create mods for public use (at the user's own risk), then good ideas would come quicker for future improvements to Legacy. The mod would enable the value of a potential improvement to be assessed "in advance" - rather than the current system of user suggestions and potential use by Legacy in the future. It also seems like a vibrant community of Legacy users, working together to improve Legacy, would be good for the Millenia Corp. as well. Thanks again for hearing me out. Donald Quigley Escondido, CA Quigley Doyle Family Tree -----Original Message----- From: Brian/Support [ <mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com> mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Monday, February 8, 2016 10:04 AM To: <mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com> legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Mods / Utilities for Legacy There is no Millennia supported sites or tools of the sort you seem to be looking for (I looked at the forum you included in you message). The only officially endorsed applications are those listed on our Add-ons. These are third party developed programs which can access the Legacy database and which provide features not included in or that augment Legacy features. Support for those Addons is by the third party developers not by Millennia corp. Ltools is the only tool that I am aware of that would access and update the Legacy database. The application was never endorsed by the company so users of Ltools were using it at their own risk. If they messed up their Legacy database to the point where it was unusable by Legacy we could not help them. Never having used TNG I have no idea how those "Mods" worked with TNG nor what support if any is provided by the owners of TNG to those who use the mods. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation <mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com> br...@legacyfamilytree.com <http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 05/02/2016 22:55, Don Quigley wrote: > Are there any Legacy-supported websites devoted to mods or utilities > for Legacy users - similar to the Wiki for TNG: > > <http://tng.lythgoes.net/wiki/> http://tng.lythgoes.net/wiki/ > <http://tng.lythgoes.net/wiki/index.php/Category:Mods_for_TNG_v10> > http://tng.lythgoes.net/wiki/index.php/Category:Mods_for_TNG_v10 > > LTools <http://zippersoftware.com/wp/ltools/what-is-ltools/> > http://zippersoftware.com/wp/ltools/what-is-ltools/ has been > "retired". 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