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From: "Alain Van Wayenberge" <>
Subject: RE: Deleting name style bug was RE: [TMG] Names disappear from picklist
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 22:19:34 +0100
In-Reply-To: <000e01c3b84b$343e9340$4402a8c0@Cheasa>


Thanks for reporting it Teresa, because I will certainly not try it
again.
I'll be very cautious before I try to use another style.
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 21:39
> To:
> Subject: RE: Deleting name style bug was RE: [TMG] Names disappear
from picklist
>
> Well, I had time to test this and it does say X names will be deleted
> and will default to the default style, so if that is the case, then it
> seems it is not doing that. I wasn't brave enough to test this to see
> if it really does default back to the default style or if the names
> disappear. I will turn that over to a beta tester. <G> But at least
> the warning is there, but in Alain's case, it seems it didn't work
that
> way.
>
> Teresa Ghee Elliott
> For Rutherford County TN Cemeteries
> www.Rutherfordcemeteries.home-page.org
> For TMG sentences
> www.tmgsentences.home-page.org
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Teresa Ghee Elliott [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 2:30 PM
> To:
> Subject: Deleting name style bug was RE: [TMG] Names disappear from
> picklist
>
> Then in that case, this needs to be reported as a bug. If a name
style
> is deleted, then the names that use that style disappear from the
Simple
> Picklist, Person View, and Project Explorer. At the very least there
> needs to be an error message that states that X number of names use
this
> name style before you are allowed to delete it, and then those names
> need to revert back to the Default name style.
>
>
> 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 2:24 PM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [TMG] Names disappear from picklist
>
> 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
> e-mail :
>
>
>
> > -----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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