Helmut Leininger

Hi John, I think Michael's proposal may not give the results you want because you *have* dates that are incomplete. Michael's solution works for *no* dates. In my opinion, you may try the following (I did not try it myself yet): Create a List of Events for the element-group "death" and filter for date-day before 1 (Michael's trick) Regards Helmut

Hi, I am having the same problem. Unfortunately, there is no solution that fits perfectly. You may look into the help for "List of People". There is a paragraph dealing with multi-married people. One of the main points here is that you need to introduce a multi-marriage flag. Regards Helmut

That's a pity because as far as I know, Microsoft has stated that Visual Foxpro will maybe supported until 2013 "as is" but not to beenhanced with new features. Regards Helmut

Melvin, I have a similar behaviour relatively often. I do not think it takes a minute, but it is tiresome. Unfortunately, up to now I could not pin it down to certain flags, number of records with the same flag-content etc. Regards Helmut

Hi formerprof, I tried it using Ubunti and wine 0.9.59 and TMG7. It seems to work well if you follow the HOWTO in http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?...n&iId=10500 Without his procedure, I had a lot of troubles. Regards Helmut

Hi, I had the same message recently using TMG 7.1. With some effort I could trace it down to this: in some of my places where I could not read the original, I had entered something like "Abcd[...]ghij". eliminating the brackets made the problem disappear.

I second Mr.Kim.Sanders. I have several Czech names in my ancestry and I want to use the correct letters. Allchars is no solution as it only gives a possibility to type/input the 255 "standard" characters in the character set. It does not help for Czech Hačeks, Vietnamese characters .... The problem for the development team probably is not only the database FoxPro (which probably could be replaced by Microsft-SQL or an OpenSource DB) but the programming interface/tools. This could mean a reprogramming of everything. But at the end, Microsoft has cancelled the further development of VFP (at least what the integration of UTF concerns) and I think TMG must be aware of this. It is to be hoped, that they are already working on migrating TMG to another database - or users would move to another program that supports UTF. Regards Helmut

Hi, Did you download the new version (2.1 Build 1) which supports V7? Regards Helmut

Hi, For some tags/events there are keyboard shortcuts to add them. <Ctrl>+<V> for Name variation <Ctrl>+<B> for Birth <Ctrl>+<M> for Marriage <Ctrl>+<D> for Death <Ctrl>+<U> for Burial <Ctrl>+<H> for History. Is it possible to add new hotkeys, e.g. to add a baptism event? Regards Helmut

Hallo Helmut, die einzige Möglichkeit besteht darin, Dir benutzerdefinierte Schaltflächen zu erstellen, die diese Aufgabe übernehmen. (Add custom toolbar buttons to > Add a tag of a specific type) Wie Terry schon gesagt hat, geht das über zusätzliche Hot-Keys nicht. (no additional hot-keys) Danke. Die Idee ist nicht schlecht, damit kann ich leben. Helmut

Hi Ann, I've reported this to Whollygenes support when using TMG V6. They could not trace it down or resolve it. In my specific case, it "only" happened at the first start of TMG after a PC-reboot. Subsequent starts of TMG never showed this behaviour. This prolem has also been duscussed in this Thread: http://www.whollygenes.com/forums201/index...ructure+missing Regards Helmut

Hi, I have the same problem. Configuring TMG to show the welcome window at startup bypasses the problem. Of course, I need one mouseclick more at the beginning to select the project (click on "Letztes Projekt"). I have set tips to yes and check for update every 1 day as changing these options did not help and I like it more than switching them off. Helmut

Hi Kenny, I had the same problem. In my case it resulted from not reading the migration instructions well enough and I did a restore including the exhibits. If you do not include the exhibits in your save/restore, they remain where they are and are perfectly useable. After that, you may set the default folders in the project properties as you like. REgards Helmut

Hi, If possible I would like a little inconvenience to be amended: If an individual is defined as: Given name: Joseph Surname: Kramer Suffix: junior Then it is displayed in the Details as "Joseph Kramer junior" which I like. In the Project Explorer (Sort by "Surname collapsed list") it is displayed as "Joseph junior Kramer" - which in my opinion is misleading and should be the same as in the Details. Regards Helmut

Thank you, Teresa. That did the trick. Helmut

Hi, It seems that you have run into the problem that the database TMG is built upon does not support Unicode or UFT-nn code. There are several threads concerning this problem in this group. REgards Helmut

Hi, I am using TMG 6.12 and have a little problem that is annoying. If for a person I have several events with specific dates, say - marriage Jan 1st, 1850 - child Nov 13, 1850 and another event "after" the same year, e.g. - death after 1850 the incomplete date, even if specified "after" shows up as first event of this year. I know, I can do something with the sordt date, but I would expect a date "> 1850" to appear after "Dec 1850". Regards Helmut

Thanks John and Vera. I would rather share John's preferences, but at least that is an explanation and I will have to take this into account. Regards Helmut

Thanks John. Could you give some examples for the reasons?

Hi, I just have come across a strange sort ordering in the project explorer. For several people, it does no sort by the name and I was unable to find the reason. TMG is version 6.12. The project explorer is set to "group by surname" and sometimes it does not order by the first name (after the surname) this results in the strange order Irene Leininger Gerda Leininger ... Anita Leininger Barbara Leininger Bernhard Leininger .... I have already run - recreate indexes - check integrity - optimize ... I attach an image of the wrong part of the project explorer. Any help and/or explanation of the phaenomenon will be welcome. Regards Helmut

Thanks, Teresa. I opened and closed the tag for the persons that I could see during a quick browsing - and it solved the problem for all but one. In the latter case, I opened the main name tag - and there was no sort first name in it. After adding it, the problem disappeared. Regards Helmut

Hi, This is strange. These persons have the marriage-name tag without the first name. But this is the same for all married women - and it works well. Besides that, the concerned persons are in the database since years (and have not been touched recently) and I did never see this problem. I now tried in one case to add a "sort first name" to the tag: I got an error message that because I did not specify a "first name" it would use the first name both for the first name and the sort first name. Although it did not "really" write the name into the marriage-name tag, now this person sorts correctly. But it is rather inconvenient to check 3000+ names to see where I should bypass the problem in the abve manner. Regards Helmut

Hi, Reports do not use the sort order specified for the project. E.g. the project has German sort order defined The order in the project explorer follows the usual German sorting Bock Böck Bogner Bosch ... Busch Carl In the report, the persons appear in the English (ASCII) sort order, i.e. Bock Bogner Bosch .... Busch Böck Carl It would be nice to have the same sorting in project explorer and reports Regards Helmut

Hi, Is there a possibility to create a report of events where the principal poerson is assigned (or not assigned) a specific role? Example: For marriages there are also the roles bride and groom (besides the standard principal). I want to have a list of all marriage events where the principal person is assigned to the role "groom", not principal (or vice versa). Thanks Helmut

Vera, It seems sometimes you have to think the other way round. It works. Thank you Helmut