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From: (Mac McDonald)
Subject: Re: [TMG] Attaching Exhibits
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 19:12 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020403142731.02ca1888@pop3.norton.antivirus>


Larry,

Thanks once again for the swift response.

> You may attach an External Exhibit to as many Persons, Events, Sources,
> and/or Repositories as you wish.

However, as I understand it you still need to define a new exhibit within
TMGW for each person/event that you wish to link to the external file. The
external file is then linked to the newly defined exhibit thus you aren't
able to link an external file directly to a number of people/events as you
have to have it linked to a separate exhibit each time. Or am I missing
something?

Is there any reason why there should be such a restriction? For example I
may wish to link an image of a marriage certificate to the actual marriage
event and to the birth events for the bride and groom. Or I may wish to
link a group wedding photo to each person within the photo. To do either
of these I would have to define the same exhibit a number of times. I
would prefer the flexibility to be able to link the same exhibit to a
number of events as it would save considerable duplication.

I take it that this has been raised before (my list database isn't large
enough to check) but do you know if there are any plans to revise the
linking process in future versions?

Regards,
Mac.

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