TMG-L Archives

Archiver > TMG > 2005-02 > 1107314579


From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] ins, ats and ons
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 03:22:59 +0000
References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050202011919.02765718@pop.sprynet.com><20050202024711.7765B83008@smtp-1.paradise.net.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20050202024711.7765B83008@smtp-1.paradise.net.nz>


At 02:47 AM 2/2/2005, Lorna McIntosh wrote:
>Darrell,
>
>I can't immediately see why this (using Addressee for Prepositions) upsets
>the place index in Second Site - you can pick what place levels you include,
>and excluding the Addressee/Preposition seems to work fine.
>I have to admit I don't generate my live sites with a place index, but
>that's more to do with other issues in my data. A test site I've just
>generated to make sure I wasn't talking rubbish above seems just fine.
>
>And yes, I use my custom style of PrepositionInAddressee just fine, apart
>from my problems with the Add Person keeping on shifting the preposition
>into the Temple field instead.
>
>Lorna McIntosh
>Waikanae, NZ

Hi, Lorna:

The problem arises in the Place Information pages. There, regardless of the place levels included in 2ndSt's Place Index level selection, the TMG place style output template is used for the subtitles. However, I have been able to get around that with a global search and replace utility and a consistent data entry procedure for filling the Place Comment field.

The problem could have been overcome without the switch to the place style solution. But I found I need the Addressee field for another purpose, a lookup code. Now when I use F2 with the cursor in a Tag Addressee field, I get *every* MPL place listed, without exception. This has ended my problems with unintended and unwanted duplicate places and equally unintended and unwanted changes to existing places.

I could have used the Detail field for the preposition, but I need it for the village/hamlet in my New England places (which are the vast majority of what I deal with).

Darrell


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


This thread: