1 - I have found problems with this but I thought it was just the way my data was entered in the system -ie I pick
up Bronze Age in Mesolithic or whatever if only one end of date range has been filled in. If there is a nice tidy
From Period To Period in the Date Range then the problem doesn't come up.... but this is not much help if that means
you've got to go back through thousands of records putting in 2 dates for each monument rather than just one.
Doesn't the Bronze Age/Iron Age problem also occur because there is still an overlap with the date ranges - ie BA
= 2350-701BC and IA = 800BC-42AD? - so if you just want Bronze Age you have to enter 2350-801BC. Perhaps
someone can tell me why this overlap still exists, when the Neo/BA overlap in version 1 has now been changed. It
seems a bit inconsistent to have exact date limits for all other periods but not here...
2 - I agree automatic copying over for sources, etc, would make life much easier. As a short term partial solution
does everyone know (as I didn't until recently) that Ctrl + X, C and V work for cutting, copying and pasting
respectively in exegesis.
3 - Yes, would be easier.
Sarah Orr
>>> Mike Shaw <[log in to unmask]> 18/June/2001 09:26am >>>
In speaking to exeGesIs there are a number of features which I would like to see in the imminent minor upgrade for
which there is not yet sufficient head of steam. Hence would anyone care to support me on the following:
(1) if you ask for all sites of a sub-section of prehistoric ( and presumably for the other periods) in the monument
index, you get all sites of the main period. Hence if you ask for all bronze age sites you will get all prehistoric sites.
So if you don't want to find all your iron age hillforts when you ask for palaeolithic sites vote now!
(2) whereas you can copy monument records this function is not available for activities, souces, finds or
consultations so that you will have to create a new record each time from scratch.
(3) if you wish to attach an event to a monument in the 'tree' and you know the number of the event there is no
way of just typing in the number, you still have to run a filter to search for it (whereas in the activity form you could
attach to a monument by simply typing in its number)
Hope this is intelligible (to exeGesIs users anyway!).
Mike Shaw
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