Loss of citation/note/text links in reports

[efnutting]

Although. I have been a user of reunion for a long, long time I am new to reunion talk. With this experience I thought I knew all about Reunion, but after reading the posts in the forum, I am humbled by the knowledge shown by the members and hope you guys can help me. I have plowed through most of the postings but failed to find comments about my problem even though I am sure many of you must have previously encountered the same probelem with Reunion reports.

I have several large family files containing hundreds of citations/notes that I would like to prepare for publication (parts as a family history, parts as surname genealogies and parts as academic genealogy articles). To begin the process, I created a 'register report' in RTF format in MS Word for the intended purpose of editing. However, I find that the citations/notes/text in the report and index are no longer linked. Apparently the Reunion imbeded codes for these elements are lost in the generation of the report and I am faced with a much more tedious chore of editing than I had anticipated. Other than manually creating the needed linkages using the MS Word procedure, can some one advise me of a better way of accomplishing this task? Alternatively, is there other software available that I should be looking at?

hw: iMac sw: OS 10.2.8; Reunion 8.03; MS Word 10.1.4

[MabryBenson]

It is not clear what you mean by links are lost in the report.

But if you mean that the reports no longer have the same number for the same source, it means you have checked the box in Options - Reports - Sources to renumber sources in each report. With that box checked, when each report is made, the source numbers you see in your Reunion family card are not used; rather the sources in the report are started with 1, and go to whatever. Different reports which use a different set of sources can/probably will have a different number for the same source, not a good idea when combining reports into something bigger. For that reason I always leave that box unchecked. thus my reports do ot have consecutive numbering for sources, but at least #8 is always 1910 census.

If you mean that some notes or facts are not included, then when you create a report, you need to go to Layout - Define Layouts and check or uncheck which items you want to include in your report. Note that you can pre-define many different layouts to include a wide variety of info - from all to hardly anything.

[David G. Kanter]

The reply post by MabryBenson was submitted while I was drafting mine, but I believe the points we make are complementary.

…I created a 'register report' in RTF format in MS Word for the intended purpose of editing. However, I find that the citations/notes/text in the report and index are no longer linked…hw: iMac sw: OS 10.2.8; Reunion 8.03; MS Word 10.1.4Last things first: While I didn't see anything about your problem in the list of fixes, I'd urge you to update to the latest version of Reunion 8 for OS X. In your case, you would need to download both of the free maintenance updates (http://www.leisterpro.com/doc/Version8/Updatev8.html)—running first the updater to get you to v8.05; then the updater to bring you to v8.06.

Next, I'm not clear on just what linking is missing. While perhaps others can chime in with the answer, with my configuration (TiPB running OS 10.4.2, Reunion v8.06, and Microsoft Word 2004), a Register Report has all that I expected it to have.

Within the Options->Reports->Index, if I enable the "Insert 'Index' Codes (RTF Only)" and "Insert 'Table of Contents' Codes (RTF Only) and then Create->Register Report with the "Include Sources" enabled, I get a report which has all the citation numbers as superscripts (my choice in Options->Reports->Sources) and the Source list as Endnotes (enabled in the same place as the style of citation numbers). (I also chose Enable Ibids in that same place.) I then have to do the "Insert Index and Tables" once the report is open in Microsoft Word—following the special instructions for the Table of Contents (search the Reunion Manual for "index" and see the 1st item "Report Options, Index")—to populate the Table of Contents and the Index. Note: I chose "Microsoft Word" as the Destination for the report, but I still got all that I expected if I chose "RTF File" and then separately opened it in my Microsoft Word.