* Sources

[JennyG]

I am changing the way I enter sources putting all the information in the Sources Pane. However although I entered text in the Text From Source box this did not show when I accessed the source from the Individual record. What have I done wrong, please?

[tatewise]

Yes, it is a little confusing, but there are two forms of the Text From Source field.

Each Source Record has its own Text From Source field, which is where I suspect you have been entering data before, and is the correct place for Source focused information, where each Source Record refers to just ONE Source document..

The yellow Sources pane is a slight misnomer, because it is actually a Citation pane.
Each Citation also has a Text From Source field, which is separate from the Source Record.
Where a Source Record is linked via several Citations to various Facts, there is a separate Text From Source field in each Citation.

The idea behind this is that some users clump there Sources together, so there is only one Source Record for say ALL Birth Certificates.
Clearly, such Source Records cannot hold the Text From Source for every Certificate.
Therefore, the particular Text From Source for one Fact has to go in the Citation.

[JennyG]

Luckily I had only tried to enter one source before discovering the problem. Now I see how I need to proceed. Thank you.

[ColeValleyGirl]

Another way of using the fields (if you're using a Source record for each source document) is:

1. to record the complete contents of the document in the Text From Source in the Source record
2. to use the Text From Source field in the Citation Pane to identify specifically which element of the overall source supports the fact or attribute that you're recording

If you do this, you might want to be careful in reports to display one or the other, to avoid repetition.