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From: "Cheri Casper" <>
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Source Template
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:55:39 -0700
In-Reply-To: <000e01c396a7$8a8e1ce0$6400a8c0@reillyind.com>


Debbie - Are you wanting this for Pick Dialog purposes? If so, just enter
the information as you want it in the Name Field at the time you create the
source. By entering PER: Daughters of Robert Burton (Hatcher) that is what
will display on the Source Pick Dialog. I haven't monkeyed with any of the
templates in this regard and am not even sure that I understand what the
Default Name on the template is in the first place, but I certainly know if
you want to see PER: Daughters of Robert Burton (Hatcher), just enter that
in the Name Field. I don't see the necessity of changing the Template when
you can "code" the Name for Pick Dialog purposes in any manner you want at
the time you create the source.

CheriC



-----Original Message-----
From: Debbie Wesley [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 6:15 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Source Template


Thanks to all for your replies. It is rare that I get so much time to spend
on cleaning up my data but I have been under the weather this week-end and
spent most of my day on the sofa.

On the Source Templates View on the Notes tab is the field "Default name"
which allows one to set a template for the name of the source. For "Article
in Periodical" the preset Default Name is:

[TEMPLATE]: [DOC TITLE] which gives me
Article in Periodical/Journal: Were the 'Daughters of Robert Burton of
Sussex County, Deleware, Really the Daughters of Comfort (Bagwell)
Leatherbury?

I would prefer it to be:

PER: [DOC SHORT TITLE] <([DOC AUTHOR])> which right now yields
PER: Daughters of Robert Burton (Patricia Law Hatcher, CG, FASG)

What I really want it to be is:

PER: Daughters of Robert Burton (Hatcher)

but to do this I would need a code such as [DOC AUTHOR LAST]


----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheri Casper" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 7:34 PM
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Source Template


> I'm not sure I understand what you are doing here. The author's name goes
> into the appropriate field when you create a source. Are you creating a
> unique Source Template for a book and then using that template to build a
> source? If so, that seems like an unnecessary step. As for journal
> articles, if you are creating a Template for a given source (arguendo,
let's
> say NGS Quarterly), again you don't need to do that. In that case you
make
> the NGS Quarterly a higher source and make specific issues/volumes lower
> sources. It is at the lower source level that you would add the author's
> name.
>
> CheriC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Debbie Wesley [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 9:03 AM
> To:
> Subject: [GENBOX] Source Template
>
>
> In creating the Default Name in the Source Template I would like to
include
> the surname of the author for books and journal articles. Is there a
> template code that would pull only the surname instead of the full author
> name?
>
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