I make much use of flags and focus groups in TMG. This is an area where they other program's features are either very weak or non-existent. Where I am: I've Gedcomed my main database to both Legacy and Rootsmagic. Yes, this was premature, but I wasn't expecting the upcoming TMG 9.04. By the time it was announced, I was well into Legacy cleanup. I've done less with Rootsmagic and plan to do a new Gedcom import after 9.04. RootsMagic has no flags. Legacy has "tagging" which is which is flagging, but is limited to 9 "tags" which on have on/off settings. I ran out of those real fast. Both programs have focus groups which RootsMagic calls "Named Groups". These don't appear to be nearly as easy to set up as TMG and ther usefulness appears to be much less. Legacy as a 9 group limit. I currently have 64 in TMG although some of those are no longer used. Any ideas how we work around these limitations? Barbara S.

Hi Barbara Full disclosure: I am just learning Legacy too. Not knowing how you use TMG flags, I don't know whether this could give you the functionality you need, and you may have already tried this, but I will throw it out there anyway... This work-around would only be suitable for TMG Flags whose values can be set automatically. The equivalent in TMG would be to filter the Project Explorer to replicate the conditions on the Flag's value, save the filter condition, and then reload the saved filter as needed and optionally modify it. One way to do that in Legacy is to use Search/Find/Detailed search (or one of the other options). The searches can be saved and loaded later. So, you could save a search that replicates the conditions on the TMG flag's value and load it when needed. You could also modify the saved search by ANDing or ORing in conditions based on events or actual Tags. Some of the other options under Search/Find may be similar to types of conditions that you have encoded in TMG flags, e.g. candidates for being in a given Census. One nice thing about Search/Find is that you can "Create list". This produces a Search list with something like the functionality of a filtered Project Explorer. You can click on a name and see on the right the name and BBDB (under "Edit") and the list of Events (under "Events"), both editable. Even after you close the resulting Search list, you can do Search/Find next or Search/Find previous to step through the list or you can return to it under Search/Search list. What I haven't figured out how to do is to clear the Search list. I haven't seen any limits on the number of searches you can save. I hope this is helpful. Barbara On 9/7/2014 5:47 PM, karenhappuch via wrote: > I make much use of flags and focus groups in TMG. This is an area where they other program's features are either very weak or non-existent. > > Where I am: I've Gedcomed my main database to both Legacy and Rootsmagic. Yes, this was premature, but I wasn't expecting the upcoming TMG 9.04. By the time it was announced, I was well into Legacy cleanup. I've done less with Rootsmagic and plan to do a new Gedcom import after 9.04. > > RootsMagic has no flags. Legacy has "tagging" which is which is flagging, but is limited to 9 "tags" which on have on/off settings. I ran out of those real fast. > > Both programs have focus groups which RootsMagic calls "Named Groups". These don't appear to be nearly as easy to set up as TMG and ther usefulness appears to be much less. Legacy as a 9 group limit. I currently have 64 in TMG although some of those are no longer used. > > Any ideas how we work around these limitations? > > Barbara S. > *** > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-REFUGEES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the message subject and body. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-REFUGEES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Barbara Levergood levergood@att.net

> RootsMagic has no flags. Legacy has "tagging" which is which is flagging, > but is limited to 9 "tags" > which on have on/off settings. I ran out of those real fast. Unless I'm missing something obvious, RM does have one flag. It's called the Living flag and it's used for privatization of things like Web sites and GEDCOM exports. But there are certainly no user defined flags. Many users get around this with user defined facts that are defined in such a way that they don't appear in reports. Such user defined facts can be queried in all kinds of useful ways. > Both programs have focus groups which RootsMagic calls "Named Groups". > These don't appear to be nearly > as easy to set up as TMG and ther usefulness appears to be much less. > Legacy as a 9 group limit. I currently > have 64 in TMG although some of those are no longer used. There is no limit on the number of Named Groups in RM. I don't know how easy focus groups are to set up in TMG. I find Named Groups quite easy to set up in RM. The complaint from RM users is not that Named Groups are hard to set up. The complaint is that they are static. If you define a Named Group that's all the descendants of John Doe or for everybody born after 1910 in Boondock County or that sort of thing (very easy to do), and then if you add a new descendant of John Doe or a new person who was born after 1910 in Boondock County, then the new person is not in the Named Group for John Doe descendants or for people born after 1910 in Boondock County, respectively. RM users have been asking for years that RM Named Groups become dynamic. Jerry

Barb, In addition to posting these questions here, I would recommend posting them to the Legacy and RootsMagic mailing lists. Current users of the software may have some suggestions. The queries might also encourage the developers to expand what their software can do. Sheila altenbernd -----Original Message----- From: karenhappuch via Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2014 4:47 PM To: tmg-refugees@rootsweb.com Subject: [TMG-REFUGEES] Flags and focus groups I make much use of flags and focus groups in TMG. This is an area where they other program's features are either very weak or non-existent. Where I am: I've Gedcomed my main database to both Legacy and Rootsmagic. Yes, this was premature, but I wasn't expecting the upcoming TMG 9.04. By the time it was announced, I was well into Legacy cleanup. I've done less with Rootsmagic and plan to do a new Gedcom import after 9.04. RootsMagic has no flags. Legacy has "tagging" which is which is flagging, but is limited to 9 "tags" which on have on/off settings. I ran out of those real fast. Both programs have focus groups which RootsMagic calls "Named Groups". These don't appear to be nearly as easy to set up as TMG and ther usefulness appears to be much less. Legacy as a 9 group limit. I currently have 64 in TMG although some of those are no longer used. Any ideas how we work around these limitations? Barbara S. *** To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-REFUGEES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the message subject and body. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-REFUGEES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message