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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Missing Biography Tag
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 22:53:31 -0500


Nathan Silver wrote:
>Problem is this: I went to add a biography tag to one of the exsisting
>people, and was surprised to find that there was no biography tag listed!
>Went back to my other data set and looked there, and there was the biography
>tag, right in the list where it belongs. Went to data set 2 and looked
>again, no biography tag. I looked through the options on the configuration
>tab, and can't see where anything is "turned off", or un-selected. I guess
>I could add my own biography tag, but you can only do that as a sub-type of
>another tag type, right? Doesn't seem like the right thing to do. Anybody
>know where the biography tag went?

It wasn't there to begi with as TMG does not have a standard "biography"
tag. You (or someone) has created a Custom Tag in the dataset with the
tag. You can check this by displaying the Tag Type List (click on the plus
(+) icon on the Person View). Now click on the More>> button to change to
the Expanded Tag Type List and move the cursor to the Biography tag type.
This will show that the tag is a "Type: Custom". You might look at the
way the tag is created (click on the Edit button) with the idea of creating
the same custom tag in your other dataset. Then if you do merge the two
datasets, there won't be any conflict.

Hope this helps -


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