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From: Walt <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Wishlist for TMG5
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:16:55 -0500
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Robin and Geoff

These are not things I am currently doing but they all sound like things
that would improve the capabilities of TMG and be worthwhile additions.

They are well thought out and well presented, Robin.

Walt


At 01:39 AM 1/12/2003, Robin Lamacraft wrote:
>Geoff rang me and I now remember that we have met before. As part of that
>call we discussed his wishlist and he asked me to expand on the comments
>that he originally made.
>
>At 11:55 1/12/2003 +1030, Geoff wrote:
>>1/ Reports / Family Group Sheet
>> The option for printing without borders (Like TMG 4)
>
>Geoff, rightly pointed out that the inclusion of the borders on the FGS
>makes the time to print such a graphic page several times longer than the
>time to print a purely text-based page. So he would really like the option
>to suppress the borders on a FGS. It is also waste of ink when these
>shaded areas are printed on working copies.
>
>
>>2/ Research Log / Focus / All Tasks / (Highlight Task Name)
>> Button to take you directly to the person it concerns
>
>It was only after talking to Geoff that I understood his request. So here
>it is in my own words. If you open the Research Log (All Tasks) and select
>a task name, the details of that task are presented on that window as the
>Subject:
>
>Now what Geoff wanted to do was to have an easy way to go to the
>Person/Event/Source that was the subject of that selected task. At the
>moment you have to write down the ID number (sometimes find an Event #
>from somewhere), close the Research Log and hopefully Open the Details
>window and Tag at the right place. His suggestion would be to add a [Go to
>Subject] button somewhere on this screen. Clicking it could close the
>Research Log and open the appropriate screen, i.e. for a Person task focus
>the Details window on that person; for an Event task focus the Details
>window on the first Principal and open the Event Tag entry screen of that
>event; for a Source task, open the Master Source List and then the Source
>Entry screen focused on that source.
>
>
>>3/ Tag Entry / Event-specific Names
>> Option to printing the event specific names instead of the primary
>> name ( unless it is set to primary name) in the list reports not just
>> narratives reports.
>> (like Cemetery List print the married name of the woman because
>> that's what she buried under.)
>
>Here Geoff wanted to get a list of burials filtered by location and listed
>by the name that the person used at the time of their death or burial. A
>List of Events report filtered by location with ability to output the
>Name-Var associated with at event would give the desired output. So this
>request turns into an extra set of output column selections to output the
>Event-associated Name-Var for both P1 and P2 on the List of Events report.
>
>Robin Lamacraft (Adelaide, Australia)

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