elevator 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2006 Good evening, I got an error today that I have never seen before, and just wanted to run it by everyone to make sure it's not anything bad (become rather suspicious as of late). I go into the Research Log (F12) and press edit to edit one of the research tasks (to update the progress fields). When I press OK to save I get the following message: Error with lbl_subj - ToolTipText: Expression evaluated to an illegal value. 10 FRMRESLOGTMG2.MREFRESHRECORD The record saves fine as far as I can see. The error indicated a ToolTip issue? No reason to worry, right? I have attached a screenshot of the error message for illustration. Thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vera Nagel 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2006 Hi Ken, I did testing on this but unfortunately was not able to replicate it. Is it repeatable for you? And if yes, can you please provide a detailed step-by-step description of what you are doing and especially what you entered in the different fields for the research task you updated (the exact data will help most I guess)? If you use Sample Project do you get the same error when doing exactly the same before the error occurred in your working project? Does the Error.txt file in TMG's main folder also show this error message? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elevator 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2006 Hi Vera, Yes, the Error.txt contains the same error messages. It happens every time I try to access my research log, but only on certain items. These items seem to be rather old items, items I haven't really changed since October, November or December 2004. Here's what I did step by step: Back in 2004 I got my hands on a large number of original documents that I have spent a lot of time scanning. I finally completed and now went back to enter this information into the actual family tree. Here's what I did step by step: in 2004: Went to Tools->Researcg Log Pressed Add to add new Reserch Task Added Source number to Source button Addded Task Name and Designed Date and signed it with my name behind the date. Keyword and Expenses left blank, Comment field contains detailed description of task yesterday: I went back into the same source by by highlighting the source in the Research Task list and pressing the Edit button. Then I inputed yesterdays Date into the Planned and Begun Fields and signed with my name in the fields behind. When I then went to press OK, I got the error I was talking about. Hope this helps? Thanks again Vera, Ken. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vera Nagel 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2006 It happens every time I try to access my research log, but only on certain items. Hi Ken, thanks for the detailed answers. You say it only happens for certain items - can you remember if you changed anything on these in the meantime? Perhaps renumbered them or anything like that so that the assigned source to those tasks has become "somewhat invalid"? If you want me to have a look at it and see if I'm able to figure out something please feel free to sent me the following tables of your project where the issue occurred: xxprojectname_l.dbf as well as xxprojectname_l.fpt (the character preceding the ending of those file is an "L"!!) Please sent it directly to vpanews@t-online.de. Oh, BTW have you tried to run TMG's maintenance tools. May be that helps?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elevator 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2006 Hi again Vera, The strange thing is that I hadn't even accessed these items before yesterday since I first created them back in 2004. I have in the time between 2004 and now run the maintenance functions many times. I also have not renumbered anything. I will e-mail you the files you requested. Thanks again Vera for taking the time to help me with this. Hopefully it's nothing bad anyway! Ken. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vera Nagel 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2006 Thanks again Vera for taking the time to help me with this. Hopefully it's nothing bad anyway! You're welcome, Ken. Let's see what can be figured out - I guess there's no reason to worry right now... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest PhilDee Report post Posted February 7, 2006 Ken and Vera, If my memory hasn't gone completely this problem was reported earlier. Topic was something like 'Source Titles in excess..." or something like that. It has to do with the tool tips and occurs if the title field of a Source exceeds something like 120 characters or so. It should be fixed in an upcoming release. Phil Wholly Genes Tech Support Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elevator 0 Report post Posted February 7, 2006 That may indeed be it! A few of my research tasks are linked to sources where the Title of the Source is indeed a very long string. Vera is checking the files out for me right now and if she finds nothing out of the ordinary, maybe waiting for the next release may fix the problem like you are suggesting then? It's not a very big problem anyways, I just naturally get a little apprehensive when I see error messages on my screen that ordinarily should not be there! Thanks, Ken. Ken and Vera, If my memory hasn't gone completely this problem was reported earlier. Topic was something like 'Source Titles in excess..." or something like that. It has to do with the tool tips and occurs if the title field of a Source exceeds something like 120 characters or so. It should be fixed in an upcoming release. Phil Wholly Genes Tech Support <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GenerationGoneBy 0 Report post Posted February 7, 2006 Phil, That is it. I remembered the problem, but couldn't remember what caused it, but that was it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
