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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Project vs dataset
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:09:16 -0400
In-Reply-To: <1a8.18e652ad.2c84d5ea@aol.com>


On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:03:38 EDT, wrote:
>I have been trying to merge
> some data sets and I am having a terrible time. I get
> duplicate sources for the same project,

When you merge two datasets, all sources in each will appear in the
combined dataset. TMG doesn't try to figure out if two sources are
actually that same and merge them. But you can merge any sources that
are duplicates after the merge, from the Master Source List.

> flags that
> operate differently depending on the dataset

I'm not clear what you mean here. Other than the default flags, each
dataset has it's own flags, and they need not be the same in the
several datasets. If you merge two datasets with different flags, both
sets of flags appear in the merged dataset. But if the two datasets
have flags of the same name but different sets of allowed values, the
values in the first dataset prevail. If this is your problem, I
suggest you either change the names in one dataset so they don't
match, or change the list of values in both so they do. If the problem
is something else, please tell us what it is so we might be able to
help.

> and a bunch
> of other problems.

If you could describe them we might be able to help.

> I just want the program to work the way the old
> merge worked.

How was the old merge different?

> I have a collateral line with a lot of
> descendants. I want to add it to my main database and
> merge the ancestor. I want everything to be in database
> 1. Is there a way to do this?

Yes. But if you have flags set up differently in the two datasets, you
have to deal with that as I outlined above. If there are other issues,
let us help with them.

Terry Reigel



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