Perhaps they should be more specific about the meaning of "Unspecified" .
Pauline
Lionel Carter wrote:
> Dennis M. Kowallek wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:40:49 +, Lionel Carter
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> However repeating the process (with different source clipboard data)
>>> adds a blank e
Dennis M. Kowallek wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:40:49 +, Lionel Carter
> wrote:
>
>
>> However repeating the process (with different source clipboard data)
>> adds a blank event rather than overwriting the 'unspecified event'.
>>
>
> You are mis-understanding what "Unspecified" means. It is
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:40:49 +, Lionel Carter
wrote:
>However repeating the process (with different source clipboard data)
>adds a blank event rather than overwriting the 'unspecified event'.
You are mis-understanding what "Unspecified" means. It is not an event.
It is just a place for lazy
Dennis M. Kowallek wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:54:21 +, Lionel Carter
> wrote:
>
>
>> So presumably it adds something to all these fields - or are there many
>> meanings to Field?
>>
>
> Events can only be sourced as a whole, not individual fields. Same for
> things like Birth Date and Pla
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Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:54 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] 3 Bar Button
Heeren wrote:
> "sort of implies"??? LOL
>
> If they wanted the button to apply just to the upper tier they would
> have said so... they said
+1 to what Ron said.
I'll continue to use this button, as it is helpful, especially when
adding a new person to the database. But, you can bet that I'll skip
it, or at least use it with extreme care, should I be tempted to use
it again on somebody with existing events.
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:
Dennis M. Kowallek wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:25:23 -0500, "PDR" wrote:
>
>> An additional suggestion would be to allow the 1-bar and 3-bar
>> buttons (and if added, the suggested function above) to be 'right
>> clicked' and skip the pop-up for the 'Source Citation Detail'
>> window. If a rig
> Unless they changed something in V7, you can get this behavior by
> unchecking the "Prompt for detail" box on the citation in the clipboard.
Dennis - THANK YOU
I missed that check box on the source citation. That is going to make my
life much easier. This is why this User Group adds value
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:51:21 -0600, James Cook wrote:
>There is no query that can be run to get me
>all the people that have had the wrong sources applied.
Perhaps a query that will find anyone with an event with more than one
citation?
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Thxs. James. But it would have been, better if instead of writing "the bue
arrow" I had written "the 3bar Icon"!
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Lionel Carter wrote:
> Heeren wrote:
>> "sort of implies"??? LOL
>>
>> If they wanted the button to apply just to the upper tier they would
>> have said so... they said, "All Used Fields". They said what they
>> meant and it does what they meant.
>>
>>
> I'm not brave enough to press the three b
Lionel Carter wrote
>This is a case where rather than read round in circles one is tempted
>to suck it and see but in this case the results could be rather
>traumatic. I've decided to stay well away from those buttons until the
>semantics is clear.
Suck it and see is the very best way to learn!
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:25:23 -0500, "PDR" wrote:
>An additional suggestion would be to allow the 1-bar and 3-bar buttons (and
>if added, the suggested function above) to be 'right clicked' and skip the
>pop-up for the 'Source Citation Detail' window. If a right click was done,
>the program would
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:54:21 +, Lionel Carter
wrote:
>So presumably it adds something to all these fields - or are there many
>meanings to Field?
Events can only be sourced as a whole, not individual fields. Same for
things like Birth Date and Place, etc.
>The button below adds to an 'unspe
Heeren wrote:
> "sort of implies"??? LOL
>
> If they wanted the button to apply just to the upper tier they would
> have said so... they said, "All Used Fields". They said what they meant
> and it does what they meant.
>
>
I'm not brave enough to press the three bar button but I have hovered
over
I sent in the following enhancement request this morning. Note that I added
a second enhancement that I think will improve sourcing. Anything to
decrease the number of pop-up but still maintain the functionality
Add additional functions when add a source cit
: James Cook [mailto:jc1...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2010 11:51 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] 3 Bar Button
I started this 3-bar mess today, and all I've suggested is a warning
to the effect that "Hey, are you sure this event applies all 15
pre-exist
I started this 3-bar mess today, and all I've suggested is a warning
to the effect that "Hey, are you sure this event applies all 15
pre-existing events". I don't think that is asking too much.
Other things I've been bitten by - adding photos to vital events,
adding address to vital events, addin
Mike Fry wrote
>The placement of the button, up next to the basic individual details,
>sort of implies that it works with them and not events. That's poor UI
>design.
I don't really see where else they could have put it. If it was in the
lower section of the screen people would be saying they did
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:49:13 -0500, Heeren wrote:
>they said, "All Used Fields". They said what they meant
>and it does what they meant.
But it doesn't apply to General Notes, Research Notes, Cause of Death,
and Medical Notes. I think it can be argued that this is a tad
inconsistent.
If I were
"sort of implies"??? LOL
If they wanted the button to apply just to the upper tier they would
have said so... they said, "All Used Fields". They said what they meant
and it does what they meant.
All the clipboard buttons are grouped together so that you can find
them easily, they were not "i
On 2010/03/09 00:00, Heeren wrote:
> I'm really not understanding why so many people are trashing this button
> when the description of what it does is very clear. When you hover over
> it, it says "Add Clipboard Source to All Used Fields". That's pretty
> specific.
>
> You're blasting the software
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