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  3. Posted · Edited by Michael Dietz · Report reply

    I am using v8.04. I try to set an accent color using the "Any Event tag; Role" field equal to a specific field. The name of the individual AND his/her parent's names are changed to the accent color. But when I click on a tag or leave the display the new accent color is gone.

     

    What should I do?

     

    Thank you

    Mike

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    To continue with Terry's reply. There will be no parents listed in the "Name" box/window. Rather the four parents will be in the "Events" box/window with the tag type of Father (or Mother) - Bio. The only possible problem is making sure the two members in each couple are properly adjacent to each other but that should be taken care of by TMG. I have many such situations and it works quite well.

     

    Mike

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    I am having a similar issue on my 32 bit XP machine. I have not completed the install because I got an error message which said:

     

    "The software you are installing for this hardware:

     

    Printers

     

    has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP. Continuing your installation of this software may impair or destabilize the correct operation of your system either immediately or in the future. Microsoft strongly recommends that you stop this installation now and contact the hardware vendor for software that has passed Windows Logo testing."

     

    A second screen shows the following:

     

    "Amyuni Document Converter

    Windows 32-bit install

    Checking for existing PDF printer

    Installing using .inf file

    Copying cdintf.dll file

    Copying xmllite.dll file"

     

    So I am now in the final stages of installation, but I am not sure about continuing.

     

    I received the same messages when installing on my XP machine. I told it to ignore and continue (whatever the options were, I don't remember) and have had no problems since then. However please be advised I do very little printing from TMG since I use SS. I do "print" several reports to files and then later print them and have had no problem.

     

    I think the Windows Logo Testing is more bloat from MS and does not really impact on TMG. It seems to be a warning that some software/hardware vendor has not followed all the rules MS wants to impose on us.

     

    Hope this helps

    Mike

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    And a while ago, I posted on the mail list...

     

    The endpoint is in sight and everyone is working to get it done. Just to be

    clear, the release will not happen today (before Thanksgiving).

     

    Surely we should all be celebrating a thanksgiving AFTER TMG 8 is released :rolleyes:

     

    Look at the bright side. We had 8 children and grand-children and seven dogs here for Thanksgiving with all staying over a day or two. If TMG 8 had been released on Wednesday think how bad it would have looked if Grandpa was not joining in the festivities. Now I am ready.

    Mike

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    Okay, I am going to chime in on this thread.

     

    First there is proven method, which has been around from day one of computer usage for genealogy, to move ALL your data and customizations from TMG to any other software (assuming the other software can handle it). It is called MANUAL ENTRY.

     

    Second that assumes the other software will handle the complete set of data you have in TMG. If you have data which you do not care if it gets moved to the other software, then why do you have it?

     

    Third if the other software cannot handle the complete set of data you have in TMG and you wish to retain all the data why are you even considering the change? I can understand the problem with 64 bit reporting but if you are willing to sacrifice your data in order to print a couple of reports then why have that data in the first place.

     

    I am as frustrated as anybody with certain aspects of TMG which are to be dealt with in V8. However I will not give up Second Site, the ability to have unlimited tags, the ability to view in one display all the children of a man who has had children by three wives and four concubines, the ability to create my own version of sources and citations, etc., etc.

     

    Just my two cents worth (or 1.7 cents in today's economy).

    Mike

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    Since I did not install the WG printer I assume you mean to uninstall TMG and reinstall it, correct?

    No. Michael means exactly what he said. Uninstall the WG PDF printer driver from the Devices and Printers window. Then run TMG. The PDF driver might auto-install. If not, use File / Printer Setup... / [install PDF printer] to install it.

    Jim,

    I had to use the File / Printer Setup.../ [install PDF printer]. During the process I received the error:

     

    Copying acXMLParser.dll file

    Error Code 2

    The system cannot find the file specified.

     

    The process continued with the message

     

    Installing Amyuni PDF printer driver

     

    and other installing messages finally with the message

     

    Printer setup succeeded.

     

    I tried to generate the PDF file again and it completed successfully. Should I worry about that error or is that a normal condition?

     

    Everybody, thank you so very much for the advice.

    Mike

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    I use the Book Manager to generate some of the reports I include in Second Site. A couple of these are PDF files. I am using XP-Pro, and just upgraded to the FireFox browser version 7.01. Now when I run the book manager report I get the following error message for both of the PDF reports: Activation Error message box, Printer not activated, error code -30. The report is not generated. I know it is related to the upgrade of the browser but I have no clue as to go to them or to you since I have no idea what the error message means.

     

    I have the following PDF printer installed:

    aPDF Writer, PDF995, PDF-XChange-2 DE, Quicken PDF Printer, and Wholly Genes PDF Writer v3. All state in the Control Panel Printers and Faxes display they are ready. The last two are Amunyi Document Converter 2.50 and 2.51 respectively.

    These drivers have been installed by programs I have installed and so I have no idea where, when, or what they are.

     

    Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

    Mike

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    When entering a "cremation" event I keep getting an error message; The date (12 Jan 1998) IS outside the expected range for this tag type (100-300).

    Proceed anyway?

    I click "Yes" and it all goes as it should. This is a new project, and I don't have the same message in my other, "main" project. Why should it start now? Ignoring it doesn't seem to affect the output, it's just an annoyance, having another window to click.

    Click on Tools and Master Tag Type List. Scroll down the list until you find the "cremation" tag. Highlight it and click Edit. Click Other and you see two entry boxes in the bottom left corner under Year Validation. Apparently for some reason the Maximum is set at 300. Change it to some number greater than 1998, probably 3000 and then click OK and Close.

    Mike

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    Mike,

     

    I think the first question when considering who to enter anything is "Why are you entering this?" How do you want to use the data? Do you think it's useful for research? Do you think it would be interesting in reports or a website? What kind of output do you favor? Is it the fact that it was reported of interest, or your conclusion about a prior marriage?

     

    You could enter it as a comment in her Marriage tag, in an Anecdote Tag, or in the CD of the Citation. Which is best depends on your objective.

    Thank you Terry for the answer. In the second volume of the series which runs from around 1619 on the term has been changed to Maiden and they are now listing Batchelor for the males. So it is of some interest in showing the person had never been married at the time of the issuance of the license. It just struck me a little funny as to the term used in 1587.

    Mike

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    This is a simple lighthearted question. I am looking at an index of marriage licenses issued in Canterbury, England, in 1587. The index has the abbreviations "s.p. v." under the prospective bride's name. According to the explanation of abbreviations in the book the s.p. signifies she resides in the same parish as the prospective groom, no problem there. That becomes a residence tag. However the v. signifies she is a virgin which I assume to mean she was never married.

     

    My question is what kind of custom tag should I generate for this bit of data?

     

    Thank you for any suggestions.

    Mike

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    TMG8 runs fine under the Win8 Developer Preview. Why you think that Wholly Genes should be involved in Metro app development is beyond me. TMG has much bigger concerns including a total rewrite if the program is to have any future.

     

    Jim, thank you very much for acknowledging the need for the rewrite. Gives me much hope.

    Mike

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    Jim. I am sorry I did not answer earlier I have been on a road trip and some places would not let me send messages out from the wifi setup there. I just got home and see my message which I thought had been sent did not go.

     

    I was not font size but font family I was looking for. I have since determined it is Verdana. Further I do not know if the default is set by TMG or by XP Pro because I have seen the same situation on another program, i.e., a different character being displayed than the one I selected and placed on the program input field.

     

    No big deal, I now which family to use for my additional flags.

     

    Thank you for the reply

    Mike

  18. Posted · Edited by Michael Dietz · Report reply

    Again thank you Jim. That is what I have set up now. However I have to respond to the two question boxes for each report which is a nuisance. You responded to my earlier question as to if these responses could be automated, saying no, the programming would be horrendouse. I am in the process of expanding those flag values to almost 80 different values so the problem is expanding dramatically. I run the book manager process at least once, sometimes twice a day so it is really getting bad.

     

    Thank you

    Mike

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    I did not explain the question properly. I will give an example. I have a 'main' flag which can have 20 different values. I wish to set a 'temporary' flag with the content of the main flag for each person. The list of people allows you to set the value of a flag with a predertermined value, not the value of a different flag. I have been doing what you both described but I have to run the report 20 times filtering for each possible value of the main flag and then set the temporary flag to the that value. If I could just move the value of the main flag to the temporary flag I would have to run the report only once.

     

    I can not find any way to do this with Cardinal's utility or the normal workings of TMG. I was hoping for some kind of a macro which I could put in a report to do the process.

     

    Thank you again.

    Mike

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    I have descriptions of places in the Comment field in the Master Place List. I have embedded citations to the sources of these descriptions in the comment. The sources are in the Master Source List. However the Cited Count for the sources referenced by the embedded citations are zero.

     

    Any suggestions or advice is greatly appreciated.

     

    Mike

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    Michael, I agree with your assessment of the Tag Groups in SS. But that does not provide a solution for reports printed from TMG. So I use both, my original idea for the reports I print and then group those "groups" into the Tag Groups for SS. Best of both worlds in my opinion. In SS I do not include the header tags for the TMG groups the way I do in the TMG reports. That is the one accommodation I make for the Tag Groups.

    Michael from the other side of the mountains.

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    I have a Book Manager set up which automates 15 flag settings. So I have 15 List of People reports being run, each of which notifies me of the number of people to be changed, and if I want to change the Last Edited Date, and when the flag changes are done. So I have to sit here and click 45 times to run the project. No big deal but it would be so much easier if I could have those responses automated.

     

    Is that possible?

    Thank you

    Mike

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