Ron and others,
I know that you and many others are frustrated that I have been promising a
Witness feature and you still don't have it. It's my fault for poor planning
and simply getting busy. We really don't like maintaining two versions of
source code so we do development of the next version in the current code base
and with each build we give Beta testers access to the new features similar to
how users can turn on extra Deluxe Edition futures. This way we can be working
on them and testing them for many months before they are actually released.
There are some features that require a database change and once that change
happens there is no way to maintain a single source code base between the
current version and the next version. For this reason we push off
implementation of the items that require database changes that cannot be put in
the current version off until a couple months before a release. As I started
working on the Witness feature I could have done a hack to get it implemented
for version 6.0 but I wasn't happy with doing it that way. I'd rather
re-design the core functionality of events and how they are handled and that
started to become a larger and larger project that was going to affect a bunch
of code. After long debates we decided to hold off on doing the quick and
dirty method I came up with that would have worked but wouldn't have been what
it could be. We decided it was best to wait and do it right even though we
knew many would be very unhappy with this decision. I take the full blame for
not getting started sooner so we had more time. I am very sorry it won't be in
6.0 and at this point I really hate to make any promises even though this is a
feature I do agree with you is extremely important. I think once we have
Witnesses that there would be a whole bunch of TMG users making the switch to
Legacy.
I know excuses or reasons do help the fact that you still do not have a promised
feature. I'm sorry about this, I really am.
We are excited about some of the great new features that we have worked very
hard to get into Legacy 6.0. This is going to be a great new version.
What's New in Legacy 6?
Research Guidance - Legacy's Research Guidance helps you locate records that may
contain information about your ancestors. It does this in four steps: 1. Legacy
helps you review the ancestor's timeline, to be certain that you've already
recorded everything you know about the ancestor. 2. Legacy suggests preliminary
survey sources to help you learn if the research is already in progress by
another researcher, or if it has been published. 3. After selecting your goals,
Legacy provides a list of prioritized suggestions to help you accomplish them.
4. Finally, Legacy organizes the sources into a To-Do List.
Publishing Center - This new feature lets you select one or more reports and
combine them into one large book report. All the information from the various
reports are indexed and sourced together and a master Table of Contents is
generated. You can also add a Title page, Preface page, Dedication page,
Copyright Notice page, Introduction Section, and Abbreviations page to the
beginning of the book.
Legacy Home - The new Legacy Home tab on the main screen of Legacy brings you
important information about your family file and also gives you a global view
into the world of genealogy. It includes daily genealogy and Legacy News, To-Do
item reminders, birthday and anniversary reminders, statistics about your family
file, links to update Legacy, technical support links and much more. The
built-in browser lets you browse the Internet without ever leaving Legacy.
Timelines - This feature lets you select historical timeline files containing
events from certain localities, and add them to the Chronology View and reports
as background information to show what was happening during a person's life.
Timeline files can be created and edited by the user.
DNA - Legacy now lets you record DNA marker test results from several different
companies.
Forms Center - (Reports > All Reports > Forms Center) or Report button >
Books/Other tab > Forms Center) New forms will be added on a continuing basis.
These new forms will probably be available online in various packets for those
who want to download them.
Potential Problems List Format - The list of all the problems found are now
presented in a grid list that is retained from session to session (until rebuilt
by the user). From the list you can edit the affected individuals and correct
the problem or exclude it from future checking.
Global US County Verification - This new feature checks your entire family file
to verify that the US counties you have used were in existence for the time
periods you are using them.
Location Prepositions - On the Add/Edit Location screen (reached from the Master
Location List), there is a field for the location preposition. This defaults to
"in" but can be changed to other prepositions like near, around, outside,
northwest, etc. These prepositions are then used when building report sentences.
Sources - You can now connect source citations to: This individual never married
(individual screen), This couple didn't marry, This couple didn't have children,
To Do Items
Note Fields - There are now Font styles buttons allowing you to bold, underline,
italicize, and superscript parts of the notes. The changes show in the notes
instead of just showing printer codes as in the past.
And much more . . .
Thanks
Ken McGinnis
Millennia Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
We are changing the world of genealogy!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Bernier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 7:30 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] V6 Features
Dennis, thank you for the link, but it only partially answers the question.
Perhaps Millennia would be so kind as to provide us with a comprehensive list
of new features. I have been waiting nearly two years for a witness feature.
I would like to know if that is finally going to be in version 6.0. If it
isn't in 6.0, then despite Ken's assurances that this is considered a very
important feature for Legacy, I think we can forget about seeing it.
--
Ron Bernier
--On Thursday, August 25, 2005 8:24 AM -0400 Dennis Kowallek
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/07/legacy_60.html
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