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From: "Cheri Casper" <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Repeating CD and annotation
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:08:20 -0800
In-Reply-To: <BAY119-DAV16C946763A0DB74AE0A58E6B40@phx.gbl>


Shelley - If you've forgotten that source lock is on and had to clean up,
won't this simply be compounded if you could lock the details?

CheriC

-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:]On
Behalf Of Shelley
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 6:28 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Repeating CD and annotation


Hi Peggy,

I agree. It's been an irritant for me too and has stopped me from using some
of the features of Genbox to the extent that I would like to (and I did with
previous software I used) because it's too much of a fiddle.

It would also be helpful if it was more obvious that there was a locked
source active (when the source screen is minimised). I can't count the
number of times I've forgotten I had a source lock on and had to go back and
clean up after myself again!

Shelley


-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:] On
Behalf Of Peggy Baldwin
Sent: Tuesday, 16 January 2007 9:41 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Repeating CD and annotation

In what way would having the feature I am suggesting be a problem for
anyone?
You can choose to do multiple entries if you for some reason if that's what
you want
to do with Legacy. I don't know why anyone would want to do that.
You could do that GenBox if it had the same feature.
I design Access databases and I'm relatively sure it's possible.

Why make me enter the same CD and citation note over and over
again, even if it is pasted, if I can enter it once for all the facts it
applies to??!!

The beauty of GenBox is that it allows you to attach your attach a source to

every single
fact, but it is so laborious doing that. Legacy has GenBox beat in this
respect.

Peggy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheri Casper" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Repeating CD and annotation


> Peggy - I understand what you are saying, but since in GenBox you can have
> more than a simply citation detail . . . you can have lead text,
> annotation,
> and note. Additionally, you may have different marked text and different
> surety and creditability values, I think it would be difficult to please
> everyone . . . what combination of CD, lead text, annotation, note, marked
> text, surety, and credibility would you want repeated?
>
> Legacy -- at least the last version which I have on my 'puter which is
> quite
> old -- only allows for a CD and Comment (i.e., Note). Text has to be
> rekeyed every time unlike GB where you simply select and "mark" what you
> want output. Therefore, it seems to me (one who has absolutely no
> programming knowledge) that because there are so many possible
> combinations
> that you would like repeated, it probably isn't feasible.
>
> However, what I would like to see is something like TMG has . . . a
> "repeat"
> key that remembers X number of entries that you can simply cycle through
> be
> envoking as many times as necessary. That would allow for faster entry
> (especially if you have lengthly data fields).
>
> CheriC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]On
> Behalf Of Peggy Baldwin
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 11:16 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Repeating CD and annotation
>
>
> Leaving the citation screen open helps a little, but I do highly recommend
> in future version of
> GenBox that allowing a user to lock in the CD and citation note. Legacy
> allows the user
> to click on a check box to be prompted for new info. When it's unchecked
> it
> assumes the
> same ones. It saves a HUGE amount of time.
>
> Peggy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cheri Casper" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 10:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Repeating CD and annotation
>
>
>> Peggy - Not to my knowledge is there a way to do what you are asking. If
>> you will keep the Citation window open, it would be easier and you
>> wouldn't
>> have to open it every time. CheriC
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [mailto:]On
>> Behalf Of Peggy Baldwin
>> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 9:05 AM
>> To:
>> Subject: [GENBOX] Repeating CD and annotation
>>
>>
>> I am doing a ton of data entry after a visit to Salt Lake City and it's
>> reminding me that I've had
>> a question for a while. Is there a way, as there is with Legacy, of
>> getting
>> the source that
>> is locked to repeat to contain a default CD and annotation. I find myself
>> opening every automatically applied source and entering that information
>> for
>> every piece of info. It would really
>> save time to not have to do that.
>>
>> Peggy
>>
>>
>>
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