On 17 Jan 2017 at 10:53, Cathy Pinner wrote: > The problem that Geoff was/is avoiding by not using the description > field was not that it didn't export but that the programs he was > importing into didn't have a place for it. > > I don't know whether that's the case with anything these days. I've > never heard anyone mention it.
The problem I had with the Description field is that it is not really clear what it is for, and what one should put into it. I put some things in the description field that came out really weirdly in reports, like "He appeared in the farmer aged 43 census of ....." So it looks as though the Description field is for the date and placed of the census, but there are already fields for the date and place of the census, so why put them in twice? -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
