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From: "Alain Van Wayenberge" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Names disappear from picklist
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 21:23:56 +0100
In-Reply-To: <000201c3b841$8208b6a0$4402a8c0@Cheasa>


Teresa,
One million thanks. After recreating the old deleted style, I used
John's utility to change everything from US standard to the newly
created style, and then back to US standard, and everything is correct
again.
I think I'll optimize and VFIze before backing up.
Alain.


Alain Van Wayenberge
Place de Bossut, 10
1390 Bossut-Gottechain
Belgique
Tél/Fax : + 32 10 840131
GSM : + 32 476 886011
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Teresa Ghee Elliott [mailto:]
> Sent: lundi 1 décembre 2003 20:30
> To:
> Subject: RE: [TMG] Names disappear from picklist
>
> Alain,
> Try this for me before you totally give up.
> First go into the project and recreate the name style that you were
> using on these people and see if their names come back. If they do,
> then you can use John's utility to change from that name style to US
> Standard for those people. If you can't remember it, you might try
> seeing if John's utility will let you set the name-VAR tag style to US
> Standard for all people and see if that doesn't get them back. I
think
> this is a rare bug that is similar to the one I have occasionally
where
> in the simple picklist instead of names, I just get the output
template
> from the name style. Using John's utility to change the name styles
has
> fixed that in the past for me. I only ever see the error in the
simple
> picklist, (and haven't seen it in a while). This could be a
variation.
> When you deleted the name style, TMG didn't know how to show those
names
> in the Picklist.
>
> Teresa Ghee Elliott
> For Rutherford County TN Cemeteries
> www.Rutherfordcemeteries.home-page.org
> For TMG sentences
> www.tmgsentences.home-page.org
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alain Van Wayenberge [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:22 PM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [TMG] Names disappear from picklist
>
> It's true that it was not the first time names disappeared.
> It began with my trying to open a new database for some new people I
had
> found. I created a style for them, changed it several times, and
finally
> decided to delete it and to come back to US standard styles. At that
> moment, the names disappeared from the picklist, the detail view and
the
> project explorer. The rest of the information was still present.
> There were only some 50 people so, in the detail window I clicked on
the
> name tags, then on Enter, and the names came back. I had to do the
same
> with all the marriage tags.
> When I finally decided to merge those people in my main database,
names
> disappeared again, but it was the 3000 names of the database, and only
> in the simplified picklist.
> Is there something I can do?
>
>
> Alain Van Wayenberge
> Place de Bossut, 10
> 1390 Bossut-Gottechain
> Belgique
> Tél/Fax : + 32 10 840131
> GSM : + 32 476 886011
> e-mail :
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Byram [mailto:]
> > Sent: lundi 1 décembre 2003 19:42
> > To:
> > Subject: Re: [TMG] Names disappear from picklist
> >
> > Alain Van Wayenberge wrote:
> >
> > > I merged a 50 names database in a 3000 names database.
> > > After the merge, when I opened the simplified picklist, I saw that
> the
> > > names of the 3000 people had disappeared. The rest of the
> information
> > > was still present and the 50 merged people were correct.
> >
> > Since your first sentence can suggest several different procedures,
> what did
> > you do exactly? I've tried several operations involving 'database'
> merge and
> > see no problem in the simple picklist.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> >
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