multimedia layout

[rlgreen]

I'm just upgrading to R10, and so I was looking at the example sites provided primarily because I wanted to see how multimedia items such as census images show up. I have individuals with birth, death, marriage certificates as well as multiple census sheets, naturalization papers, etc. and I wanted to get a sense of how all that comes together on the person's sheet.

Unfortunately I couldn't find any sample sites with multimedia (beyond photos). Could someone possibly point me to a more complex example?

Thank you.

[FarmerBob]

Re: multimedia layout

I'm just upgrading to R10, and so I was looking at the example sites provided primarily because I wanted to see how multimedia items such as census images show up. I have individuals with birth, death, marriage certificates as well as multiple census sheets, naturalization papers, etc. and I wanted to get a sense of how all that comes together on the person's sheet.

Unfortunately I couldn't find any sample sites with multimedia (beyond photos). Could someone possibly point me to a more complex example?

Thank you.

Try http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....ogy/Farmer001/
Go to the home card. I assume you are interested in web sites.

[rlgreen]

Re: multimedia layout

FarmerBob --

I did mean web sites -- and thank you, that was very useful..

[FarmerBob]

Re: multimedia layout

FarmerBob --

I did mean web sites -- and thank you, that was very useful..

A post scrip. Notice that many of my multimedia have long transcriptions or explanations in the multimedia comments section. Unfortunately R10 now limits multimedia comments to only a few characters. I think it is 100 characters. I made those long transcriptions in earlier Reunion versions. I am very disappointed we can no long exceed the character limit.

[Mark]

Re: multimedia layout

Hi Bob,

Both Reunion 9 and 10 have a limit of 1,000 characters for the multimedia comments; I'm not sure why Reunion 10 is limiting you to 100 characters. Are you getting an error message when you try to enter more than 100 characters in Reunion 10?

Thanks!

[FarmerBob]

Re: multimedia layout

Hi Bob,

Both Reunion 9 and 10 have a limit of 1,000 characters for the multimedia comments; I'm not sure why Reunion 10 is limiting you to 100 characters. Are you getting an error message when you try to enter more than 100 characters in Reunion 10?

Thanks!

I answered that to quick and to late at night and I misspoke. Mark, you are right, the limit is 1000 which is not enough to transcribe some documents. The 1000+ character transcriptions I have on some documents were made years ago and I don't know what Reunion version number was in effect at the time.

I still wish Leister would open up the multimedia comments character limit to a greater number, say, 3500 characters.

[theKiwi]

Re: multimedia layout

I've also suggested/requested in the past that this be increased - perhaps even to no limit.

The Event Memo field in was increased in Reunion 10 on my request to 2,500 characters, but I couldn't persuade on the Media Notes field - but still hold out hope :-)

Roger

[Bowes Researcher]

Re: multimedia layout

What is the reason for any limited note fields to begin with? I keep bumping into limits in various fields. Really frustrating, which isn't to say I'm not really enjoying Reunion :-)