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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Individual Narrative issues
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:20:09 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20050118162630.05113b00@pop.well.com>


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:29:48 -0800, kathryn gratop wrote:
> I meant that I hoped that the new tag would be available
> to all Projects, not just the one that I created it in.
> Same with the place styles. I was hoping that once I
> created my German Place Style, that I would be able to
> access it in all Projects. I mistyped, hence I was not
> clear. I should have said "I have to create it for each
> project."

Tag Types, Source Types, Styles, and more are specific to to each
Dataset (if you have more than one per Project) -- otherwise changes
you make in one would impact every other one, which is not generally
what one would want. This is the major reason I highly recommend that
all one's working data be placed in a single dataset, unless there is
a good reason to keep them separate. Then have only received files and
other unrelated in separate datasets or projects.

It is possible to copy Tag Types and Source Types from one dataset to
another, but it's not easy. I've posted as a wishlist suggestion a
means to do this directly. In the meantime, the process involves
attaching tags and/or sources with those types to a person, copying
that person to a new dataset, then merging projects and/or datasets
until the person, with their custom Tag Type and/or Source Types ends
up in the other projects. Unless you have a lot of them, probably not
worth the effort.

For one or two, a simpler way is to open two copies of TMG at once,
one with each dataset open. Then use Windows copy and paste to
transfer the details (sentence structures, output templates) from one
dataset to the other.

Terry Reigel


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