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From: Bob Velke <>
Subject: Re: [FTST] Help with mega-project manager
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 16:23:22 -0400
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Bonita said:

>I opened my project with two datasets as well. My biggest desire was to
>look at EVERYTHING about two people to determine if they were indeed the
>same person, or more important, a son, brother, uncles of the person. Can
>FTST do this?

Yes, but you don't have to put them in the same project in order to do
that. You can do that with people in different projects too.

Putting them in the same project allows to you see one alphabetical list
with everyone in it (sorted, filtered, and maybe accented as you
like). That will help you to identify the people that you might want to
see side-by-side.

>I found the Project Manager that has the picklist type
>of box with individual DB# but how can I view ALL the data for each person
>side-by-side to make those hard decisions as to where the new guy fits?

I wrote the message below to Greg on TMG-L answering basically the same
question (before FTST-L existed). Following those steps, you can have two
Person View's (or two Family Views, Tree Views, or Project Explorers, etc.)
side-by-side to compare two people in the same project. It works just as
well with people in different projects, however.

>A second question: I pulled both datasets into FTST from my backup files.
>Do they maintain the same TMG ID as the FTST ID?

Yes.

-Bob

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Greg said:

>Specifically, I would like to find candidate matching individuals in two
>or more datasets and examine them side-by-side, sort of like the merge
>screen in TMG v4.0. Is this capability there in FTST? If so, could someone
>give me a quick rundown on how to do it? It seems that I can only open the
>details for one individual at a time.

Access the File menu, choose Open, and select the same data set a second
time. Then you can put the two windows side-by-side and navigate them
independently.

When you reduce the size of the application window to half of your screen,
you'll need to tell FTST what to do with the independent windows inside it
(or they may not be visible). That is, you can

(1) move the Details, Children, Siblings, Project Explorer, Image, and
Flags windows around until you like the configuration
or
(2) maximize one of those windows (probably Details) so that it takes on
whatever shape that you give the application window.

Once you arrange the screen the way that you like, be sure to save it as a
"Layout" so that you don't have to do so again.

-Bob

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