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From: Darrell Martin <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Entering / Selecting Places
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 06:07:15 -0500
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At 07:56 PM 9/1/04, you wrote:
>At 07:41 PM 9/1/2004 -0500, Darrell Martin wrote:
>>Yes, but be *VERY* careful. If you put the cursor in the first place field in the Tag screen, press F2, and choose from the place list; and then, after the place fields are filled in on the Tag screen, you edit them, you may (I think *will*) change all Tags that had the same original field values to agree with your edited values even if you have no intention whatever of doing that.
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>That is not true...if you edit a place after entering it a tag using F2 you will not change all tags using the original place....the only way to affect all tags using a place is to edit it in the Master Place List....
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>Paul E. Lawrence

Hi, Paul:

I think you are correct as far as what happens if F2 is pressed with the cursor in the *first* place field -- that is my error, trying to work from memory. Unfortunately, I am about to head out for a very long weekend, and won't be able to look at my saved notes for a few days.

However, I am quite certain that if F2 is pressed with the cursor in a place field "later" than the first, and then one of the "earlier" fields is edited, the behavior is not always what one would expect of a true Master Place List stored as a separate file (because TMG does not store its "MPL" that way). In this regard, I will have to review the specifics of what fields are, and are not, changed by Tag screen edits (L1 through L9 versus Short Place, Place Style, comments, and date range).

I am quite certain that the Place Style can be changed if F2 is used, and the Place Style connected to the selected place is different from the default that is displayed on the Tag screen. The user has to manually re-conform the Place Style on the Tag Screen to the desired Style for that place. Unfortunately, the Style is not displayed on the selection list.

I am also reasonably certain that under certain circumstances related to the use of F2, it is possible to create what *appears* to be a duplicate MPL record from the Tag screen. Such duplicate records cannot be optimized without further editing, because the new, apparent duplicates do not have the same values in the non-displayed place fields as the older records do.

I have created a procedure that avoids all these difficulties with F2 and the MPL. It involves a non-standard use of the Address field, which was always blank for me previously.

Darrell M.


Darrell A. Martin
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Illinois
http://www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy


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