John Cardinal

Christopher, TMG Utility has a feature where you can delete tags by tag type, and you can use it to delete your existing Married Names. After you do that, run Add Married Names with the options set to specify the sort dates.

Marilyn, Changing the sort sequence of the TMG export would be relatively simple if you are up for editing an XSL file. Look in the TMG Utility program folder and you should see a set of XSL files under the XML folder. The "Sources-Standard.xsl" is the one to edit. You'd have to add some XSL code to sort the tags at about line 113 in the XSL file. Basically, if you nest an xsl:sort element inside the xsl:apply-templates element, the sources will be sorted according to the key you specify in the xsl:sort statement. The call number is not part of the source record, it's part of a linked repository record and the TMG Utility Data Export tool doesn't include it.

Marilyn, For the time being, you might try my TMG Utility program and its Export Data feature. It will Export your sources and I believe it will include the entire source comment.

Mike, I think the key point is that you don't know who the mother is. I wouldn't assign either as primary.

John, I store my project on multiple PCs and I keep the path to the project exactly the same on both. I also keep the path to exhibits exactly the same though they are managed ouside of TMG, i.e., I don't backup exhibits with the project. I change the project storage default that TMG recommends and set the "Projects" folder to "d:\TMG Projects". (All my PCs have a "d:" drive.) If you want to put other TMG folders in a common place, you might define "drive:\TMG" and then "drive:\TMG\Projects", etc.

Dave, Sorry, but it's not a simple addition. The [set Flag Filter] function is available in the places where a change can be restricted to a single person. In this case, a single place can be shared by multiple events, and each event can be assigned to one or two principals and multiple witnesses, so interpreting how the flag filter should limit the places is non-trivial. One approach would be to have TMG Utility determine if any person associated with the place passed the filter, and if so, clone the place record and only make changes to the clone. That's far from perfect, as a person's event might reference the same place more than once, and it might be desirable to change some of the places but not all. So, for example, a person who lived at the time of the Amer. Rev. could have events before the revolution that refer to the colonies and events after the revolution that refer to the states. The flag filter would either select the person or not, and the place would be changed (or not) in all the events, not in the ones before or after the political change. I don't want to disappoint you, but it's unlikely I'll modify the Change Place Parts feature given the above. I *might* implement an ability to make bulk changes to places based on the characteristics of the events to which the places are attached. That raises similar issues, and the solution would have to introduce new places in order to avoid the issue with a place that is shared by one or more events that pass the filters and one or more events where it doesn't.

Dave, If you click [OK] to close the Edit Event window, the Last Edited date will be updated. If you click [Cancel] it will not.

Dave, Many features in TMG Utility already have that ability. At the bottom of the TMG Utility window there is a [set Flag Filter] button. It is enabled for many functions. If you click the button, it opens a window where you designate which TMG flag you want to use to restrict processing to a subset of people. John

Joe, In Photoshop 7, if you open the "File info" dialog there is a pull-down menu to select one of the sections of the dialog. In the "General" section there is a field labeled "Caption:". If you store text in that field, it is written to IPTC meta data in the "Caption_Abstract" field. That's how the documentation I've seen about the IPTC standard describes the field.

I have no specific objection to extending the date format in TMG to handle BC dates. I don't think it should be a high priority, but that's a personal opinion and you are certainly entitled to yours. Based on what I know about how dates are stored and processed in TMG, recording BC dates would require a fair amount of work and that's another reason I would not make it a high priority. You were right that your comment referred specifically to recorded history, and yes, some of the activity during that time was recorded and a subset of those records have been retained. My point was that using that argument to increase the priority of the request doesn't influence me, but that's just my opinion and I don't speak for Wholly Genes.

Another idea is not to copy the IPTC meta data, but instead use the current meta data values in the image file if the corresponding values in the exhibit record are blank. So, for example, if TMG was inserting an exhibit into a report, it would use set the caption based on the meta data, if any, if the exhibit's caption field was blank. There is at least one challenge with this, and that has to do with filtering exhibits: it wouldn't be practical to have filters read the external image files to determine the exhibit caption or description in order to apply a filter. That argues for copying the meta data values. Unfortunately, if the meta data is copied to the exhibit record, and the user subsequently modifies the meta data, the TMG exhibit record would no longer be in sync with the meta data. As a minor but important detail, I am curious why you suggested that the "Headline" IPTC field map to TMG's exhibit caption. IPTC has a "Caption_Abstract" field and based on my experience, applications that record a "caption" place it in the "Caption_Abstract" field. I know that's true of Photoshop, for example. FYI: Second Site currently uses the IPTC "Caption_Abstract" as the exhibit caption if it is processing an exhibit that has IPTC meta data but does not have an exhibit caption.

Mike, Re: "Most of human recorded history occurred BC." I don't think that's accurate. Most of human history occured B.C., but most of it was not recorded.

Herb, I'm not fully up to speed on what TMG does to DD format lat long values when the "'Validate LAT/LONG value" option is disabled. However, if you replace the comma between the DD values with a tilde, TMG will not change the value. So, for the DD value "42.685811,-71.112485" enter "42.685811~-71.112485". If the latitude is negative, add a leading tilde, as in "~-12.0931~-77.0465". Second Site will interpret those lat/long values correctly, and it's relatively easy to convert the tilde version to a comma-separated version that is useful with GPS devices, etc. I have lobbied Wholly Genes to accept the DD format without converting it. When/if that happens, I think WG may accept both the comma-separated and tilde-separated formats and if they do not accept the tilde-separated format I'll provide a way to convert it to whatever DD format is required. John

vabopi, If you send me (offlist) the entire TMG Utility log file I'll take a look.

TerryD, TMGU has a problem on some PCs where you can't use the "select a folder" dialog window. There is no fix right now, but I expect to change TMGU in the future to allow the user to copy/paste the path. There is a Windows component that fails under a specific set of circumstances and I haven't been able to work around it. If you can't set the folder, then you can't use the feature. The only way around it would be to edit the registry. Unless you are very comfortable with technical system management tasks, I don't advise that.

Make sure you are using the same language in Second Site as you are using in TMG. Specifically, make sure that both of the following properties are set to your language: Language.Sentence Language Language.Site Language Based on your description, both should be set to "English UK". If you don't do that, SS will use whatever language it is told to use, and that's probably "English", which is different from "English UK".

Yes, but to use that capability effectively you need some other way to limit the change to a subset of the records. Something like this: - If the County field is not empty - And if the County field does not contain "County" - And if the County field does not contain "Co." Then - Append " Co." to the County field. Probably not. I've got my hands full.

If you need to make the same change to multiple place records, such as changing "Co." and "Cty." to "County", you should check out the Change Place Parts feature in my TMG Utility program.

I don't have a suggestion for how to edit the text, but you could try this: change "1911" to "[Y]". When TMG sees [Y] in a sentence, it substitutes the year from the tag's date. if you put the date in census events, then the sentence can refer to that date. The next time you copy the Tag Type, you won't have to adjust the sentence.

In TMG, open the exhibit log. Set the focus to a person and then set the ID number to zero. That should let you see the thumbnail images, and that might help you determine where the images are attached.

Try File > Maintenance > Optimize. Let me know if that helps.

That site uses an open source mapping facility called "OpenLayers". I think that software uses a different map projection and the coordinates are based on meters, not lat/long. The implementation of OpenLayers on http://www.karjalankartat.fi may allow for lat/long coordinates, but I couldn't tell from what I looked at. You should ask them about it if you have some way to contact them. Without lat/long, you'll have hard time using the karjalankartat.fi site with Second Site. It might work, but you'll have to experiment.

Peter, What format are the parameters? It looks like it might be degrees-minutes-seconds concatenated together without delimiters. What web site are you using? Are you sure they don't have a URL format where you can pass decimal degrees?

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