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From: Elizabeth Churchett <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Wishlist for TMG5
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:21:16 -0600
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Robin,

Thanks for speaking with Geoff and amplifying his comments, all of which
I heartily endorse.

All,

I also support Walt's improvement on the Research Log suggestion
below--I often find it frustrating to be working in one of the tools
(MSL, Research Log, etc.) and have to close everything out just b/c I
want to check something in my data. I would be **very** happy if I
could keep the items open while I took a peek at my data. (If there are
potential conflicts b/w allowing a user to modify data while one of
those items is open, then perhaps any data entry could be disallowed,
with any attempt to do so producing a message to the effect of "If you
wish to modify your data, you must close the xxx first".) Yes, I know I
could open up a second instance of TMG and look at my data there, but
that just seems so clunky.

Thanks,
Elizabeth

Walt wrote:

> 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 comments that he originally made.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:
>
> <snip>
>
>>> 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.
>
> <snip>
>
>> Robin Lamacraft (Adelaide, Australia)
>
>
>
> Robin
>
> This sounds quite useful, but I think that if I were doing this I
> would want to leave the Research Log open. Probably the optimal
> solution would be to have an option under preferences similar to the
> one we have for opening a new Project; in this case it would be:
>
> When going to the Details Window from the Research Log:
>
> o Never close the Research Log
> o Always close the Research Log
> o Always ask
>
> Walt
>
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