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From: Robin Lamacraft <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Suggestion (was - A little advise please)
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 23:07:57 +0930
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>Caroline replied to Robin
>
>This is one enhancement request that Bob is already well aware of. He has
>contributed to previous threads on the subject. My recollection of his
>position (and I hope I'm not misrepresenting him) was that, because the
>program currently provides a way of doing this, by attaching parents as
>witnesses, it was not an issue high on his list of priorities.
>
>As Teresa has rightly pointed out, US users would like it too.

Adding the parents as witnesses, creates side-effects on the entry screens
and slows down the data entry when in most cases these extra steps would
not normally be done by most users.

TMG is perceived by a number of users to be more complicated than it needs
to be for just this kind of reason (that is, there is already a back-door
method of getting the result). To these users what they are asking for
seems to be simple to them. To get their desired result should not require
them in a lot of effort on their part or a more complex way of thinking
about the data entry.

I would hope that in the future some of the more common requests can be
"canned" into appropriate new reports.

Robin Lamacraft (Adelaide, Australia)

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