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    You have 100 external exhibit files.

     

    You have 215 exhibit records. Each exhibit record contains a link to an external exhibit file.

     

    Since you linked to some exhibit files more than once, you have more exhibit records than there are exhibit files.

     

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    The exhibits that show in a person's Exhibit log are those exhibits linked to the person and to the events in which that person is a principal.

     

    When the person is a witness to an event, an exhibit linked to the event will not show in that person's exhibit log (when the focus is that person).

     

    Exhibits linked to a citation don't show in a person's exhibit log (when the focus is that person).

     

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    Since you have chosen to maintain your exhibits in a tree, you should manage those exhibits outside of TMG. Don't use TMG backup/restore for your exhibits. Restore will restore the exhibits but to one folder rather than reconstructing the tree.

     

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    Thanks Jim,

     

    From your comments I have now determined that from any given exhibit log I can get a variation of views dependent upon my choice of focus for that log.

    This has helped me to some degree.

     

    However I'm still not sure on how many exhibit logs to which I should attach the same exhibit.

     

    Further, when I use a photo of a headstone identifying multiple persons buried in the same plot should I rename the exhibit file for each person (Principal) for whom I use it associated with their Death & Burial Tags, or is it OK to use the same file multiple times?

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    Wholly Genes Forum

     

     

     

    John Oldman

     

    28th May 2010

     

     

     

    TMG Gold v 7.04.000

     

     

     

    Windows XP Professional Version 2002

     

    Service Pack 3

     

    2.93 GHz, 3.25 GB of RAM

     

     

     

    ENTERING EXHIBITS

     

     

     

    I have set up my exhibits as external, in a tree of folders.

     

    I currently have 100 files in total in the tree.

     

    When I view the Exhibit Log, with a focus of All Exhibits, in either of the Details, Tag Entry or Citations windows I get a count of 215 exhibits.

     

     

     

    QUESTION 1: Is this what I should expect or have I erred in entry of exhibits.

     

    · My procedure was to enter all Primary exhibits, portraits, via the icon on Details window

     

    · All other Exhibits I entered in each of the Tag Entry and Citations windows, i.e. 2 entries each person.

     

     

     

    I have searched all 53 pages of the Forum seeking guidance, but I am not convinced that I completely understand it all.

     

    Upon experimenting I have discovered that when I have a Tag Entry with a Witness(es) if I only attach an exhibit to the Citation window that exhibit does not show in the Witness(es) Exhibit Log, whereas I need to attach the exhibit to the Tag Entry window.

     

     

     

    QUESTION 2: If I have erred, what is the correct, or recommended, process.

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    In the Expanded Picklist, if you switch the mode (columnar to event or vice versa), do the missing people appear?

     

    If the Expanded Picklist is filtered, does removing the filter bring the people back?

     

    Do they appear in the Simple Picklist?

     

    Are the people who are missing from the Picklist still in your project (use Ctrl-I and enter the ID# to go to the person)?

     

    Virginia

     

    Virginia,

    To each of your 4 questions above, the answer is NO.

    Regards

    John

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    There is no need to renumber anyone. The problem is with the Picklist display, not with your data, and can sometimes happen when working with a filtered picklist. Run the Maintenance routines - which should be run regularly in any event - and see if that fixes the Picklist problem. You could also try switching to another Sort order and see if the problem resolves itself.

     

    Virginia

     

    I have run the Maintenance routines (on the File menu) as suggested

     

     

     

    The group of 8, all females having a Tag Type of Name-Marr, originally on the top of the PickList, are now back in numerical order within the whole PickList.

     

     

     

    However, the 40 Person Names, all having an ID Number as 0, that I would have expected to see as ID’s 138 to 177, have now disappeared.

     

    A further check also reveals 3 of those 40, who were in the Witness box of the Marriage Tag for ID’s 1 & 2 are no longer showing as Witnesses

     

     

     

    John

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    John -

     

    Run the Maintenance routines (on the File menu) in this order: Optimize - Validate File Integrity (VFI) - Optimize, until VFI reports no more errors.

     

    If the problem persists, switch to the Simple Picklist and see if the problem is also there.

     

    Is the Picklist filtered? Are you using Accents?

     

    Virginia

     

    Thanks Virginia

     

    On reading my posting I realised that I should have been a little more explicit as follows:- "From then on I have 40 Person Names, all having an ID Number as 0, when I would have expected to see ID’s 138 to 177, once again including Name-Marr & Name-Var tags".

    Can I re-number these, or will Optimise fix it?

     

    John

  9. Posted · Report reply

    Wholly Genes Forum

     

     

     

    John Oldman

     

     

     

    TMG Gold v 7.04.000

     

     

     

    Windows XP Professional Version 2002

     

    Service Pack 3

     

    2.93 GHz, 3.25 GB of RAM

     

     

     

    My Expanded Picklist (250 names) has, I believe, some errors as follows.

     

    • When sorted by ID Number, the top 8 persons are in numerical order in their group of 8, but out of numerical order in the complete Picklist.
      • This group of 8 are all females having a Tag Type of Name-Marr

      [*]From ID Number 1 to ID Number 137 all seems to be correct, including Name-Marr & Name-Var

      [*]From then on all Person Names have an ID Number as 0, once again including Name-Marr & Name-Var

      [*]I have attempted to add a new Witness having a completely new ID Number, but it shows up as a Name-Var for existing ID Number 137

     

    How do I fix these errors please?

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    Windows XP Professional Version 2002

     

    Service Pack 3

     

    2.93 GHz, 3.25 GB of RAM

     

     

    For the Marriage Tag (^M) I have created Witness Roles for every member of the Wedding Party and also the minister, with a specific Sentence Structure assigned to each Role.

     

    When I create an Individual Narrative for P1 or P2, the report shows that P1 married P2, the daughter of <[PARO]>, as I would expect, but it does not report the Roles of any of the other Witnesses.

     

     

    Where is my error please?

     

     

     

    Furthermore, what is the difference between the Tags of Marriage (^M), Marriage 1, & Marriage 2 ?

     

     

    Note: John, never post your TMG user number in public - I have edited it out.

    Terry Reigel, moderator.

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