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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Wishlist for Exhibit Log
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 01:27:07 +0000
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At 12:21 AM 10/4/2005, Richard Damon wrote:
>Darrel,
>My technique does NOT require multiple exhibits records if the link has a
>memo field like I described later.

Hi, Richard:

Then you are not storing the "actual" caption
in a master record, and I don't have to get
red in the face so much [grin].

>The additional information was referring to the comment that it would be
>nice to be able to add additional information like Repositories to exhibit
>records.

An "exhibit", which is the *use* of an Image in
relation to a person, a Tag, or ?, can't have
a Repository, but an Image can.

I suggested "Repository" as part of my "MIL".

>I was referring to the addition of more information make the use of
>multiple Master Exhibit records less useful. This puts more incentive for
>the memo field to solve the caption problem.
>
>Let me describe my example a bit better. Let us say you have a group photo
>of a class graduation (or any other event). A "generic" person would just
>put a generic caption and attach it to all the people (maybe it names all
>the people in order). A "customizer" might want a customized caption for
>each person giving that persons name and where in the picture they are, as
>well as some common text. The customizer could enter something like
>John Doe || second from the left in the middle row
>In the exhibit memo and if the caption was processed like a sentence, these
>could be inserted into the caption. In the extreme the caption could be just
>[EM] and you would enter the full caption in the exhibit link record.

This approach, which stores the caption in
with the *link* information (in what you call
an "Exhibit Memo") looks fine to me. It sounds
much like my "default caption with (possible)
local override" suggestion, a parallel to
TMG's current approach to sentence output.

What I understood you to be saying in your
earlier message was that the caption that is
actually used in each link context would be
stored in what you called a "Master Exhibit
List". I am opposed to that approach. What
you have set out now is radically different
in fundamental ways, even though it might
not seem to be. It looks workable.

>Richard Damon

Darrell


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

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