Why do the 'Sourcer' Source Citation and census membership Table conflict in the clipboard?

Question

Since starting use of 'Sourcer' (Thanks to the author(s), by the way - great work) and still learning, I've noticed there is a conflict when trying to save a Source Citation and a membership table at the same time for a given census (at least with FS). IIRC selecting the source citation 1st, THEN the table, it will work, but if you specify the Table data 1st, then the citation, you will only get the table data. Madding, but not too significant.

Answer 1

I'm not sure I follow all the details in your question but...

In Sourcer "Build Narrative with Citation" and "Build Household Table" both save the result to the clipboard. So if you do both without pasting in between the second will overwrite the first.

If you want to be able to get both in the clipboard together and paste both in at once there is an option to do that under the "Household Tables" tab of the options page called "Automatically add household table in census citations"

Comments

It's finally happened, my pre-frontal lobe has been over-written by WikiTree instructions because, Rob, what you said makes perfect sense, and on the first read too!  

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Robert, you might be thinking about it differently because of the way "Edit Citation" works. Or how you can use a citation to add a new person.

When you build a citation it saves it in local storage as well as in the clipboard. When you do "Edit Citation" it gets it from local storage (the extension doesn't have permission to read from the clipboard). When you press the save button in Edit Citation it saves it to both local storage and the clipboard.

When you build a Household Table it just saves it to the clipboard

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Ahh, I see, said the blind man (as my Grandmother frequently said back in the day). With the Auto add table function activated, I was simply misinterpreting the results, rather than the sequence.

Thanks for the clarification, you've got a great little program here.

Bob True