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From: Elizabeth Churchett <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Terry Reigel redo
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 19:24:18 -0600
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Carlton,

I just followed what you had done and think I know what you are missing.
See below.

--Elizabeth

Carlton Brooks wrote:

>...
>I went to Master Source List
>Clicked Add
>Clicked Add again
>Now I am at Add Source Type
>I name my source type Census 1930
>Go to full footnote and cut and paste your full, short and biblio.
>Click ok
>It then says FULL FOOTNOTE FIELD CONTAINS AN UNRECOGNIZED SOURCE ELEMENT
>[COUNTY] and it then goes through all the tags that have problems, for full,
>short, and biblio.
>
All good and same thing happened for me. This happens because you have
not yet created the custom source elements for county and state--see my
comments below for how I did this step by step.

>I click continue on each, it then brings me to the source definition screen.
>
>In the boxes unter the title are where you can set items, like county and
>state.
>
>Well they don't show up. This is what I need to create, and was my originall
>question. How do I create them?
>
Terry does say on his page you are referencing that you will have to
create custom source elements for county and state; he just doesn't give
detailed instructions on how to do it. Here's what I did:
--when you're at the source definition screen, as you've described
above, click on one of the empty box labels where you want to see county
and state appearing
--a Source Elements box will appear--click on Add
--enter County as the label
--then you must put it into a group (see Terry's article
http://www.reigelridge.com/tmg/Sources%20-%20Creating.htm for further
explanation if desired); I put this into the Location group and then
clicked ok
--after saying ok, you should be back at the Source Elements box
again--click Add again and enter State as the label this time
--now you have to select a group for State--you must NOT put it into the
same group as County, since only one element from each group can be
used--thus I put State into the Second Location group

Now when you create a new source using the Census 1930 source type,
those fields should appear. I just did this (using 5.04) and it worked
all right for me. If it doesn't work for you, speak up as I may have
miscommunicated something.

--Elizabeth

>Thanks to everyone for the help.
>
>Carlton W. Brooks o?o ()
>Mesa, AZ
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Terry Reigel [mailto:]
>Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 4:22 PM
>To:
>Subject: Re: [TMG]
>
>
>Carlton Brooks wrote:
>
>
>
>>Am creating a new Source Citation Detail.
>>
>>Have entered the following [STATE] [COUNTY]
>>
>>When I save the source it gives me an error saying that the state and
>>
>>
>county
>
>
>>are not listed.
>>
>>Now, when I go to the screen to enter the state and county it asks me what
>>group it is similar to, how do I answer it.
>>
>>
>>
>Sounds like you are defining a new source, rather than a Citation
>Detail. And it appears that you are trying to create new Source Elements
>for State and County. Is there some reason you need custom Source
>Elements? Or perhaps you are really trying to do something else and
>using the wrong field? If you tell us more about what you are trying to
>accomplish perhaps we can be of more help.
>
>Terry Reigel
>
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