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From: "Siobhan Kimminau" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: TMG 6.01: So what do you do with your exhibits?
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 08:24:13 -0500
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Jim,

In addition to all the other great suggestions and ideas, I would like to
see a central screen where any and everything can be done with the exhibit,
without having to utilize a right-click menu. Since we can already set the
path for our exhibits in the preferences, I think it would be convenient if
there was a sort of exhibit screen. One where it automatically goes to my
exhibit path, and shows me a listing of all the exhibits I have within the
path that I already set in the preferences.

Ideally it would have a preview pane, so that when I clicked on a photo in
the list, I could see the photo, add the caption and possibly a description,
and any reference information that I wanted. In addition, it would be nice
to have a picklist of people also on that screen so that I could quickly and
easily attach multiple people to one photo, rather than the present system
of having to attach it to each person individually, which is clunky at best.

I know I will come under some fire for this next comment, but I would really
love it to work as well as Legacy's picture center does. At present, even
though I have well over 3000 images linked, etc. in TMG, I do not output
them from there because of the limitations. It is much easier and user
friendly for me to do it through Legacy.

Just my own two cents worth.

Siobhan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Byram" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: TMG 6.01: So what do you do with your exhibits?


> Nick,
>
>> However I have come across a second problem with Exhibit Manager in TMG
>> 6.01: it does not sort on the Description field; indeed however hard you
>> try and select 'Description' it reverts to 'Caption'.
>
>> Can anyone tell me if version 6.04 has corrected this bug or whether it
>> has corrected the missing Description field contents please?
>
> The sorts for Caption and Description were reversed and this was fixed in
> v6.02.
>
> The EL design has always been to show the caption towards the bottom. When
> the caption was moved to the caption field, the EL display was
> (eventually)
> updated to reflect that.
>
> We'll be taking a look at all sorts of issues down the road. Send me a
> list
> of all the EL-related issues that you can think of so those can be
> discussed
> when the future development objectives are being discussed. I'm more
> interested in changes needed to make the existing program features work
> better as opposed to any new features.
>
> Jim
>
>
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