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From: Ron Stonehouse <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Changing Living Indicator on Merge
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:28:59 -0600
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Thanks Lee, that's all I needed to know. Just have to go back now and see
if I missed any.

Ron

At 2005/07/01 04:54 PM, you wrote:

>Ron Stonehouse wrote:
>>I'm just performing some merges of people after merging projects and I
>>noticed that when you merge a person with a death tag (old project B)
>>that the living flag does not change on the "kept" record (old project A)
>>. Is this one of the "undocumented features" (bug) or is am I doing
>>something wrong? I'm running V6.1.
>
>No, you are not doing anything wrong. TMG will change the Living Flag
>under certain conditions including when _you_ add a Death Tag to a
>person. In the case of a merge when one person is Living and the merging
>person is not, then you will need to set the Living Flag of the merged
>person manually. The reason is that once the Flag is set, TMG will not
>reset it - _you_ must do the resetting. TMG is retaining the Flags
>from the one person and _assumes_ that the Flags are the same for the
>merging person. So if you merged the other direction then you would not
>need to change the Living Flag as it would already be set to N.
>
>The whole thing boils down to which direction should you do the
>merge. There are often good reasons for merging in either direction. But
>merging one direction may be better under certain circumstances for you
>than another and that may mean making certain manual changes when you are
>finished.
>
>Hope this helps -
>
>Lee Hoffman/KY
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