to Mike Tate:
I apologize for the confusion. Firstly, your last paragraph answers my initial question, so it appears that a plugin is the only solution for bulk adding data. Appending new text entries to existing ones requires multiple fields, otherwise, new entries will overwrite the previous ones. Although that seems to address what I was trying to accomplish, I'll attempt to answer your questions.
The confusion probably lies with my use of
Source Record Id. I should have used a more generic
source reference number or something similar. There is no use of either Method of
Source Citations. There is no linking of anything. I am just making text entries in a text field called
Ref:. And, yes,
Ref: could be considered a temporary "Work in Progress" reference, but it may or may not be deleted later. It's such a convenient way of seeing sources for multiple individuals in a Diagram at a glance that I may want to keep it.
The
Find,
Named List, and
Bulk Add Source Data process allows me to 1)
Find ("Other Fields" box in the
Find dialog) individuals having the text "[278]"
source reference number, 2) create a
Named List of those people, then 3) use
Bulk Add Source Data (a plugin I think I found through FHUG) to add a
Citation to those individuals' records. The
Ref:[278] may or may not be removed later.
I run the risk of causing further confusion, but let me explain by using another example. Let's customize the
Property Box by adding FH's built-in
To do: item. Rather than entering the same
To Do: task (let's say "verify birthdate") in each of 50 individuals'
To Do fields, I was looking for a way to enter "verify birthdate" once, then apply it to all 50 individuals in a
Named List. Similarly, I wanted to be able to add a new
To Do task (", add birthplace") to 30 of those same 50. The desired end result is:
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So, I believe the conclusion is that there is no simple way of adding the same text information to items/fields for multiple individuals.
Thank you again for your help,
Joel
