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Titles for Citations

Posted: 06 Feb 2023 21:49
by Chrisv
Due to the large number of Marriage supplemental documents used in 19th century Netherlands, I decided for the first time to make a custom template that uses Citations. All these supplemental documents are sourced under one Marriage Record, with the supplements simply being a sequential scan. For this reason, it makes sense to enter the Source (book) only once, and Supplements (pages) as Citations. The problem is that I now have up to a dozen Citations all with the same title and no way to identify which document is which unless I open each one to take a peak.
Is there any way to customise the Citation Titles to differentiate them from one another? I was not successful in the Source Template Editor.

Re: Titles for Citations

Posted: 07 Feb 2023 00:04
by tatewise
What you are looking at are not Citation Titles but Source Record Titles, which is why they are all the same.
That is confirmed by your screenshot of the Sources For pane saying Citation (Text: Source Record)

I would hope that in your Source Template definition, the Footnote Format includes the Supplement Page number which I suspect is a Citation-specific field.

In the Sources For pane you posted, click the cog Menu shown at the bottom and choose Display Citation As... > Footnote
Then Citation (Text: Source Record) will change to Citation (Text: Footnote) and the list below will display the Footnote which should be different for each Source Citation.

Also, if you open the Citation Window, then not only will the Supplemental Page number be visible but also the Footnote and Short Footnote can be shown on the right which should be different for each Citation.

Re: Titles for Citations

Posted: 07 Feb 2023 00:42
by Chrisv
My smile is Large! :D
Thanks so much, Mike. That is exactly what I needed!