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From: "Rod Tilyard" <>
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Searching on Place
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 14:22:53 +1000
In-Reply-To: <CHEMKKAJHOKJPIEOPLKDMEIMGBAA.clcasper@sprynet.com>


Sure does. I'll report what we are seeing on the beta list.

Rod

-----Original Message-----
From: Cheri Casper [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, 2 April 2006 2:17 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Searching on Place

Rod - That worked better, but still seems to leave misparsed stuff, such as
"Tennessee Rangers" (township) > "Co. I" (county parish) > "40th Reg.
Georgia Volunteers" (state/province)which is only linked to the
county/parish and not any event. I want to delete ALL PLACE ELEMENTS not
linked to events AT ANY LEVEL OF THE PLACE. Does this make sense?

Cheri

-----Original Message-----
From: Rod Tilyard [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 7:42 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Searching on Place


Cheri,

I'm seeing something strange with the filtered list also. Try for just
Standard Names. When I have the filter set for all Names, I have some places
such as New Zealand (which has links) showing up in the filtered list, but
New Zealand isn't in the filter list BEFORE I apply Set Filter. Hmmm. But
I'm not seeing this oddity when I set the filter for Standard names.

Yes, the 2nd step re selecting and deleting from the right pane is only for
pruning the list. I forgot that Bill had moved the delete option to the Data
Menu. Once you have the Filter Place list as you want for deleting, choose
'Delete All Place Records in List' from the Data menu.

Rod

-----Original Message-----
From: Cheri Casper [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, 2 April 2006 1:26 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Searching on Place

Rod - This did not work for me as I got places that I *know* are linked to
events. And it returned all of the abbreviations for the various states in
the U.S. For example, it returned M.C. Printing, however, this is a
publication place for one of my sources. If I were to have deleted all of
these results, I'd be deleting places that ARE linked and I'd be in big
ka-ka. I just don't understand why this isn't working properly. Ideas?

CheriC

-----Original Message-----
From: Rod Tilyard [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 6:07 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Searching on Place


Hi Jim,
With the filter for Places displayed (without typing anything to search
for):-
Click on Data Links: and enter 0.
Click on Place Links: and enter 0.
Click on the 'Update' button. (The spinning hour glass starts, disappears
for a little while, then starts again, then shortly the filtered list
appears).
Click on the 'Set Filter' button.

Rod.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Winfrey [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, 2 April 2006 11:50 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Searching on Place

On 4/1/06, Rod Tilyard <> wrote:
> 1. Set a Places Filter with Places Links: 0 and Data Links: 0
> 2. In Lists, Select all the entries in the right hand pane of the list
(use
> shift and down arrow), then right click and choose 'Delete Selected List
> Members'.
>
> Seems Genbox is easier than those other apps, :)
> Works for all types of lists - can Legacy do that?
>
> Rod.

Rod,

I am missing something from your explanation. I can't set a filter
for places with no dependencies until I type something in to search
for. So, if I enter "V" I get a filtered list of unused places that
start with V. What am I doing wrong. Could you please add the bullet
steps in your instructions above?

I guess the only reason I brought Legacy up was that it could do what
Cheri wanted to do and I have been looking for the same thing in GB.
Legacy can do the same kind of "surgery" on all lists BUT it has a few
defined lists not unlimited lists like GB.

Jim


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