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From: Kaye Wykoff <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Tags explanation of each type? What have you added?
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:14:23 -0800 (PST)
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Teresa,
I've very sure you are right.  I was just going by a statement in Lee's book, Getting the Most Out of TMG, which may not be true any more.  The way I read his statement there, is that once a custom tag has been defined, the group cannot be changed.  I've never really checked it for myself just took it at face value and never tried.  You all are the experts though!
Thanks for the correction,
Kaye




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From: Teresa Elliott <>
To:
Sent: Wed, February 3, 2010 4:41:35 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Tags explanation of each type? What have you added?

Kaye,
While you do have to be very careful with HISTORY tags, the following isn't
true for all tag groups. TMG U can change a tag from one event type to
another. 
>From the help file:

"Change Event Type will change all instances of event type "a" to event type
"b". For example, you can use it to change all "Note" events to "Event-Misc"
events, or all "Christenings" to "Baptisms".

TMG Utility displays the list of roles defined for both the "from" and "to"
event types, but Change Event Type does not validate roles as it changes the
type of the event. It is a good idea to use the Show Role Usage feature to
determine if there will be invalid roles assigned if you change events from
one type to another."

I tried a census to a marriage in LOG only and it changed them, with no
errors, so I assume it would change a custom tag to a marriage group tag.
Don't want to try in on real data. <G>  Now granted, the roles didn't match
on the two tags, so I would have lost a lot of data, so you need to make
sure that you create the new tag in the new group first with all the roles
the same before you use it, but it will change them. Just not the HISTORY
group.

-----Original Message-----
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Of Kaye Wykoff
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 4:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [TMG] Tags explanation of each type? What have you added?


If you create custom tags, make sure you do so under the proper Tag Group. 
For all the tag groups, except 'Other Event', you can only have one tag
marked primary.  Once a tag is created under one group, you can't go back
and change it.  I have a custom Biography tag with a sentence of just [M]. 
Plus an Bio-Auto tag with the sentence of just [M].  That gives me the
ability to put these stories at different positions in a narrative depending
on the date I attribute to the tag.  I might also throw in an Anecdote to
record a short story I've heard about someone and again the date determines
where it will fall in a narrative.

Kaye



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