[LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-11 Thread Scott Hall
A search of the archives found an message thread from 2008 that said there was no way to copy existing events in the Event Master to create new ones. It appears this is still the case. Want to check to see if I'm missing something. If not, this would be a great addition to future versions ... ha

Re: [LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-11 Thread Mike Fry
On 2010/05/11 15:38, Scott Hall wrote: > A search of the archives found an message thread from 2008 that said > there was no way to copy existing events in the Event Master to create > new ones. It appears this is still the case. Want to check to see if > I'm missing something. If not, this wou

Re: [LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-11 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Tue, 11 May 2010 09:38:32 -0400, Scott Hall wrote: >A search of the archives found an message thread from 2008 that said >there was no way to copy existing events in the Event Master to create >new ones. It appears this is still the case. Want to check to see if >I'm missing something. If n

RE: [LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-11 Thread Byron
age- From: Scott Hall [mailto:seh0...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 8:39 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Copy Event A search of the archives found an message thread from 2008 that said there was no way to copy existing events in the Event Master to crea

Re: [LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
Byron wrote >I have found a variety of ways to add/create/change events for my >needs. As to a copy and change technique, I will go to a person and >click on them to edit, then go to an existing event they have, >dbl-click on an event I want to open for editing, then just under the >"help" button

Re: [LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-12 Thread Bruce Jones
Hmm... His method seems to work for me. I displayed an event "census" on an individual, copied the event to the clipboard, closed the event, added a new event, pasted from the clipboard, added a "2" to the name (census2), and clicked on save. A popup box asked "Is census2 correct?". I clicked on

Re: [LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
Bruce Jones wrote >Hmm... His method seems to work for me.  >I displayed an event "census" on an individual, copied the event to the >clipboard, closed the event, added a new event, pasted from the >clipboard, added a "2" to the name (census2), and clicked on save.  A >popup box asked  "Is census2

Re: [LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-12 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Wed, 12 May 2010 19:08:29 +0100, Jenny M Benson wrote: >Bruce Jones wrote >>Hmm... His method seems to work for me.  >>I displayed an event "census" on an individual, copied the event to the >>clipboard, closed the event, added a new event, pasted from the >>clipboard, added a "2" to the name

Re: [LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-12 Thread Bruce Jones
Thanks, Dennis, for the explanation of what I did. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: > On Wed, 12 May 2010 19:08:29 +0100, Jenny M Benson > wrote: > > >Bruce Jones wrote > >>Hmm... His method seems to work for me. > >>I displayed an event "census" on an individual, copi

RE: [LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-13 Thread Byron
ubject: Re: [LegacyUG] Copy Event On Wed, 12 May 2010 19:08:29 +0100, Jenny M Benson wrote: >Bruce Jones wrote >>Hmm... His method seems to work for me.  >>I displayed an event "census" on an individual, copied the event to the >>clipboard, closed the event, added a new

Re: [LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-13 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Thu, 13 May 2010 11:19:46 -0500, "Byron" wrote: >Whereas the method I use/described >does copy any previous info into the new event. The key word being "event" ... which is not the same as Master Event (aka Event Type), which is what the OP was asking about. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http

RE: [LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-13 Thread Byron
ootsweb.ancestry.com/~byronsch/ -Original Message- From: Dennis M. Kowallek [mailto:kowal...@iglou.com] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 12:03 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Copy Event On Thu, 13 May 2010 11:19:46 -0500, "Byron" wrote: >Whereas the meth

Re: [LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-14 Thread Mike Fry
On 2010/05/14 07:30, Byron wrote: > Yes, the key word being 'event' as in Master Event, as in ie., event type > . > All I am saying is that my method copies an event to create a new one, > copies information as needed, transfers sentence definitions, etc, and with > the event name editing, create

Re: [LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-14 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 14 May 2010 00:30:04 -0500, "Byron" wrote: >My method COPIES a current event with information and whatever sentence >definitions(as would be found and defined in the MASTER Event list), to a >new event template which can then be edited to a new name creating a NEW >MASTER event, in which

Re: [LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-14 Thread Gene Young
On 5/14/2010 7:10 AM, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2010 00:30:04 -0500, "Byron" > wrote: > >> My method COPIES a current event with information and whatever sentence > > Your method DOES NOT copy the sentence definitions to the new Master > Event you just created ... at least not in V

Re: [LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-14 Thread Gene Young
On 5/14/2010 7:40 AM, Gene Young wrote: > On 5/14/2010 7:10 AM, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: >> On Fri, 14 May 2010 00:30:04 -0500, "Byron" >> wrote: > > Dennis, > I usually would not contradict you, however, in this case V7 does create > a new Master Event Definition with the new edited sentence word

Re: [LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-14 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
Gene Young wrote: >Dennis, >I usually would not contradict you, however, in this case V7 does create >a new Master Event Definition with the new edited sentence wording >options intact. Whether this is something newly introduced in V7 is up >for debate. The fact that it DOES work is not. Perhap

Re: [LegacyUG] Copy Event

2010-05-14 Thread Gene Young
On 5/14/2010 10:08 AM, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: > Gene Young wrote: > > Oh, well. I think we have beaten this dead horse a little too long. > Yes, I think it is starting to beat back. -- Gene Young Researching Young, Harer, Cox & Sallada With Legacy Family Tree Legacy User Group guidelines