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From: "s.lloyd9" <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Research targets
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 23:26:50 +0100
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Hi Kathy,
I find it difficult to read through a description and see how things would
work, but I have a feeling I'm not using Projects and Research Targets in
the way Bill intended and may have to completly rethink how I'm doing
things. If I want to find someone in certain census year, I click on the
Research target button, which makes a new RT record, I then open Projects
and find my 1881 Census project and add a lower level with the Individuals
name. I tend to use the Description field as a sort of Note field adding
anything that would help me find the individual. I return to the RT,
memorise the RT number and enter it on the Research Tab of Projects.
Sometimes I don't even bother to enter anything in the RT Description box,
because if I do, I'm doing a sort of double entry, describing what I want
to do once in RT and again in Projects.
Bill's comment about the 'many to many relationship' makes me think
perhaps I should have a Project 1881 Census and then have all the the people
I want to find in that Census only entered in RT. I can't think of a
situation when I would want to link several Projects to a single RT.
Unlike you I haven't really thought out how my system would work in
Reports, but it seems to me that some of us are using Projects and some RT
to try and do the same job. Perhaps when there is better intergration
between the two, I'll find a better way to go about things and I'm
certainly going to have think more about Reports.

Sally
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Lenerz" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Research targets


> William T. Flight wrote:
> > I think we may have this covered: Click on a target button; add the "to
do"
> > text as the target description; click the new "Add Link" button on the
links
> > page and select the corret "To Do" project item that you defined in the
> > Projects hierarchy; then print off a project report for your "To Do"
project
> > that includes reseach target descriptions.
>
> I'm not sure that will work. Most of my "to dos" are searches, not
> targets. Example:
>
> Target Description: SPIKE, Joseph D: Death 4 May 1935
> Search Description: Locate Isaac Spike residence (where J. D. Spike died)
>
> I originally thought about putting my "to do" in the Target Description,
> and using the Main or Subitem for the event that was the subject of the
> research. However, as already mentioned, because the event name that is
> automatically generated is so lengthy, I had to use a shortened event for
> the target description.
>
> In fact, Genbox Help says the Research Target Description is: "to describe
> the target of the research" and says "The [Search] Description box can be
> used to enter the specifics about the search: what you hope to find, how
> you plan to conduct the search, etc."
>
> This suggests the target should be an individual, event, place, etc., not
> the task (search) to be done, with the details (sources, repositories,
> etc.) included in the Search.
>
> Thus, the basic unit we need to see for a "to do" report is the search,
not
> the research target description. So printing "off a project report for
> your "To Do" project that includes reseach target descriptions" wouldn't
> do it. Adding the Search Description, Repository, and Location to the
> Project report fields would fix all this.
>
> Kathy
>
>
>


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