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http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/tmg/2005-06/1118608894

 

The above 2005 post by Terry indicates that to view 2 Projects at once requires 2 instances of TMG running. I expect one could then view one dataset in one instance and a second dataset in the second instance.

 

My question: in the intervening years, has there been a feature introduced that will allow the split screen viewing of 2 datasets running in the same Project, within one instance of TMG?

 

I have done some exploring of my 2 datasets in the one Project, but I cannot find a split screen feature, other than the 'Check for Duplicate People' tool.

 

My apologies if this is obvious.

 

 

Stan Cruise

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My question: has there been a feature introduced that will allow the split screen viewing of 2 datasets running in the same Project, within one instance of TMG?

 

Sorry, Stan, no. The method you mentioned of using two instances of TMG on the same computer is the only method I know of that is available. If you have two monitors this works great. But if you have only one monitor, you can construct and save a TMG screen layout that will only cover half a screen. Then you can use that layout for both instances. While you do get a bit of "extra" stuff for each instance, it can be made to work.

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Stan,

 

Michael has already answered that there is no built-in side-by-side viewing capability. But just to be clear, when you open two instances of TMG you can view the same or different Projects in the two, or the same or different Data Sets in the same Project. You can even view the same person in the same Data Set in both if wanted to. The only restriction is you can't open the same data entry screen for the same Tag, Source, Repository, etc. in both. If you try, TMG will ask if you want to open one of them as "read only."

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Just be aware that there are some operations that require only 1 copy of a project to be open.

 

Anything that will make a global change or make a backup, etc.

 

I did have a list of these somewhere but I can't find it easily.

 

If I remember correctly with 2 copies open you can't define a new flag, but one it is defined you can set it by a report when two copies are open.

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Merging People:

 

When merging say, a Dataset B Person into a Dataset A Person (B Person copied to Dataset A firstly), and selecting all possible tags/lines in the Merge People split pane, I end up with a single Person in Dataset A, and can then rationalize the tags.

 

Learning as I go here, I notice that the spouses of the children of the Person merged do not appear in the Dataset A Person. I did not have this data in Dataset A and it did not come across from Dataset B (where it is). This makes sense because this spouse data is associated with the children and they are separate People. So, it just means that I have to process every person for which I want all data to be merged. Not a surprise, but a demonstration for me.

 

My question is: is there a recommended method to process through all necessary people for merging? Certainly I could make a list and just do each one. However, there may be a method that is more efficient. As in, should I process a Person, and then do that Person's children, and so on to the end of that trail? For example, will this make it easier to rationalize duplicate relationship tags that appear due to merging?

 

I know this will become more evident with experience; I only ask to avoid processing 500 people and finding that I have made a mess that is only correctable by starting completely over.

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Stan,

 

First, if you want to copy people from one Data Set to another and then merge the duplicates, I recommend you copy all people you intend to copy who are linked to each other by marriage or as parent/child at one time. This preserves those links, which are otherwise broken.

 

It might be helpful to create a temporary flag in the "to" data set and use it with Accents to color-code those you have still to work on. You might make the values Y for "yes, merged" and N for "no, not merged." Create it with the values Y,N, so everyone already in the Data Set will take the default value of Y. Then change it to N,Y so the default becomes N, which will then be applied to everyone you copy in. Then set Accents to a bright color for N. Then you can easily see those yet to be worked on in the various windows, in the Project Explorer, and in the Picklist if you have it set to the enhanced mode.

 

On the other hand, I urge you to consider not doing that at all if there are lots of duplicate people, but just opening the two data sets in separate instances of TMG and copying the new information from one to the other by cut and paste.

 

If you haven't seen them, the articles on my website on copying people and merging may be helpful.

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