To David Bartelt Thanks for the suggestions. The next update will have a button on the picture source screen to "open with default program" I will consider adding a button to add a file from the Media folder. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bartelt" <dybartelt@comcast.net> To: "BK Mailing List" <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 12:28 PM Subject: [BK] Pictures of files for source citation screen >A suggestion for John Steed. > > Suggestion: > Add a button for MEDIA and TEXT folders to the "Add picture/file to > citation"/"Pictures of files for source citation" on the source screen. > And, as with the "Open with default picture program" feature found on the > EDIT SCREEN/PICTURES tab, possibly add that feature to the "Pictures of > files for source citation" screen. > > Reason for suggestion: > On the Source screen, clicking the "Add picture/file to citation" will > bring up the "Pictures of files for source citation" page. > On this page is the button to "Add picture or file". When clicked, the > "Select picture file or other file" popup appears and it is logged into > the database PICTURE folder. > To save the file to the MEDIA or TEXT folder, one needs to click up and > down in the popup. > > I have been using the PICTURE folder for (basically) portrait shots that I > might want to have on the various reports. > I keep images of death certificates, marriage licenses, scanned newspaper > articles, message board posts and whatnot - these being more of "source > materials" - in the MEDIA or Text folders. And I find that MEDIA folder > route is more frequently used than to the PICTURE folder. > > Not a major item but would avoid the need to click up to the data folder > and then down to the MEDIA or TEXT folder when entering an item. > > This is a handy feature I'm just now starting to make use of. > ______________ > As a side note - maybe a piece of helpful info - for those Windows > Explorer type popups asking for a filename, such as you get when you click > EDIT SCREEN - ADD MEDIA FILE, if you already have a pathname on the > clipboard, you can just paste that pathname into the "file name" box and > it will put the file into the proper folder regardless of the logged > folder on the popup. > > For instance, when I started with BK, I made a separate folder - not under > the data folder - for census images (yes, I save them and I wonder about > it to). I get most of them from HeritageQuest which when you click to save > the image will give you a new screen with relevant census page > information. I made an Excel page with various conversions - one of which > being the HeritageQuest info - which transforms their format into that > which I use for the BK "ADD MEDIA FILE" and source information. So, I copy > and paste the HeritageQuest data into my Excel conversion and one of the > results is a pathname for the census page. That then is just copied and > pasted into BK info areas, and specifically for the image data to EDIT > SCREEN - ADD MEDIA FILE. > > Pathname (for instance) = D:\BK\Census\ (1840 U.S. Census) KENTUCKY, OWEN, > NO TWP LISTED M704-122 Page 196A.tif, where > Filename (in this case) = (1840 U.S. Census) KENTUCKY, OWEN, NO TWP LISTED > M704-122 Page 196A.tif > > Don't ask about the parenthesis around the "(1840 U.S. Census)" - for some > reason I just started that way and haven't gotten around to changing it. > LOL. > > The point being that if you already have a pathname on the clipboard, you > can just paste that pathname into any Windows Explorer Select "file name" > box and it will put the file into the proper folder regardless of the > logged folder on the popup. > > Using the Excel conversions for a number of data items in this manner has > saved much time in logging information to BK. Not particulary relevant to > the suggestion above - those being "one off" type of entries - but when > you gyrate some "complex" info into your own formated bits and pieces it > can save some time, helps to standardize your entries and avoids > transcription errors. > > David Bartelt > > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >