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From: "Fran Anderson" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Add-a-Name Express
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 09:46:24 -0700
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Having run into the same issue as Stuart, I'll second the wish for the
drop-down list of names for each principal/witness to include "add new
name", or else a button beside the name field for adding a new name.

Fran Anderson
Olympia, Washington, USA


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Armstrong" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 8:49 AM
Subject: [TMG] Add-a-Name Express


> I'm entering a census record. I've linked the household members as
witnesses. But Mary Carrick is listed in this census as Molly Kerrick. It
would be incorrect for a report to say that the household included Mary
Carrick, so I need to close the census tag, go to Mary Carrick, add a Molly
Kerrick name tag, then go back to the census tag and find Mary and select
Molly for her name for that tag. Isn't there an easier way?
>
> a. I could change the tag sentence to indicate the household included
persons "identified as ..." so that I wouldn't necessarily have to list the
name as written. (I've considered that option -- it would simplify tag
entry, and the name-as-written is in my citation detail anyway for
reference -- but the sentence would be rather awkward.)
>
> b. or maybe Bob could add an Add-a-Name Express feature, whereby one could
"Add a name-tag for this tag". I know that from a programming viewpoint this
is a little tricky -- adding a tag from within a tag -- but it sure would
make life simpler. The feature would have to be available for all principals
and witnesses within a tag, and it would by default select the newly-entered
name tag(s) for the event being entered, and link the same citation to the
nametag(s) also.
> In practice, the drop-down list of names for each principal/witness
would include "add new name", or else there would be a button beside the
name field for adding a new name.
>
> Anybody else like this idea?
>
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