Virginia Blakelock

Phyl -

The list at the bottom is of last used projects. As Jim said, use File/Open (Ctrl-O) to open a project in the v9 projects folder.

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VFI is on the top menu: File / Maintenance / Validate File Integrity. For more information, see Help / Validate File Integrity.

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wtishey

Those are 'Item tips.' Preferences / Program Options / Item tips.

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Eric -

You may find helpful the tips on Customizing your TMG Workspace here. And many examples of customized user layouts here.

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Bonita -

That sounds like an ambitious project; no wonder the PE jumping around is a problem.

If unlinking the PE does in fact cut down on the jumping, it is a quick extra step in the unlinked PE to switch to the selected person:

In the PE - Leftclick / Rightclick / C

Leftclick (selects person) - Rightclick (opens menu) - press C on keyboard to change to that person

I use the mouse to leftclick / rightclick - then press C (lowercase is fine) with my other hand.

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You used Restore to restore a .sqz file of your v7 project in v9?

If you wanted to add another project, you would use File / New Project (or the New button on the Welcome screen). The Data Set Manager is used to add a new Data Set to your existing project.

Do you want to Import a GEDCOM into a new project?

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If the names are in the Focus Group, do you need to have the PE linked for what you are doing (rightclick to unlink)?

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Patt -

I don't know how it is 'supposed to work'. VCF is a separate program from TMG. Apparently that is how it is presenting your data - so the only recourse I see is to work around it.

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Patt -

Marlene -

Close any other programs that are running. Dropbox is often mentioned, but it could be an anti-virus or other program that is interfering.

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You could label them using the Layout toolbar. Open the Layout toolbar (docked or floating) in each version. Save the layout in each version with the version name. In a split window they would look like this:

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Paul -

I am not seeing those differences. Not the 5/6 method of window resizing?

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I could not read or see your message yesterday either - maybe there was a problem with the forum database that garbled it. A lot of those 51 views were probably me trying to view your posting and getting an error message .

Anyway, it's good to see your message came through today. And also good that the RTF output of the filtered List of Tasks does work and open in Word 2007. If you want to venture into those .doc waters again with the task list, you might try deleting the report definition for the List of Tasks and start with a clean slate. Do you have the same problem with an unfiltered list of tasks?

Word 2007 is a little long in the tooth. Maybe the fact that .rtf works and .doc does not is because of differences in .doc coding in current TMG versions.

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Gathering Threads -

Did you start with 3000 people in the Focus Group with the goal of adding the ancestors and descendents and spouses for each of those 3000 people?

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Jim -

There has been a problem with Win8 removing the v8 registration information. You can try rightclicking on the TMG icon and running one time (one time only) as Administrator and see if that solves the problem permanently. If not, there is a more complicated fix in the message here.

Re gridlines: Preferences / Program Options / Lists.

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I am another user like you and have no knowledge of future plans. There was a thread here a few months ago in which it was indicated there were no plans at that time.

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No. TMG v9 does not sync with family search family tree.

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Robin -

I don't know why the mother/father bio tags appear in the Details view and also in the Father/Mother slots. Did you import this project from another program?

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Jim -

It can be easier to find things in the Master Source List if you are aware of the differences between the More and Less views and how the Source information is displayed in each view. Here is a side-by-side view:

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In your computer, go to Start / Devices and Printers and rightclick on that WG printer icon. See if there is something in the queue (click on that option and delete the queue), or maybe try the troubleshooting option.

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Robin -

Your Father and Mother bio tags are good. I can see where the parent entries in that particular family are confusing in the Details view. In that family, the Mother and Father -candidate tags refer to possible parents of the subject of the chart, Benjamin. His parents are unknown - and those possible parents are noted in his Details view only for research purposes. Those -can tags are not marked as primary. If I made a descendent box chart of one of his possible fathers, Benjamin would not appear on that chart - because there is no primary relationship with that father candidate.

If Benjamin's parents were known (and their relationship tags in the Details view were primary), they would appear correctly at the top of the Details view in the Father/Mother fields under Benjamin's name. Below is a screenshot of the Detail view of Benjamin's daughter - who appears correctly in Benjamin's descendant chart with her parents.

Your chart children's relationship tags - son-bio, dau-bio - should be marked Primary and then their parents should appear at the top of the Details view in the Parent fields. Is that what you are seeing now? The marriage tags should also be Primary.

Hope this helps -

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The only reason I can think of why the children do not appear is because there are some non-primary relationships or problematic surety settings.

Below is a simple example of a descendent box chart of a husband, 2 wives and the children of one wife. I have also included the details view of the husband - showing the asterisked (alternatively bolded) primary designations - critical for a box chart. The descendent indented chart does not have the requirement for primariness.

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Simon -

You may want to update to v8.08 (or try the trial version of v9, out today) to see if the problem persists. Note, if you use Dropbox, that you risk data corruption if project files are synced as you work. Backups can be stored on Dropbox.

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Are all the relationships marked Primary? In the Details view those tags will be displayed with asterisks or in bold type, depending on your preferences setting.

You said you have both 'No Threshold' and 'Include blank surety' ticked in the Surety settings on the Other tab of the descendent chart report options?

Are the children by various wives?

There are several threads in the VCF forum on large wall charts, including suggestions for compacting large wall charts and for saving them in PDF format for printing.

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