Re: Namesakes in Brainstorm

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Posted by stephenz
2005-09-22 08:58:53

Peter,

I must confess that I don’t make use of namesakes myself. However, I think there are times it could be useful. For instance, if you’re working in a large model describing a complex project, you might have the name of a contact person in more than one location, and all the contact information would be available. Or, say, you’ve delegated several tasks to an individual, you could easily move through your model to note all the tasks that person is responsible for.

In another scenario, you’re gathering research and structuring an article. You could create one section of your model where you store reference, listing the source title with all the citation information as subordinate. Then you could just type the source title into your model wherever you’ve cited it and you’d have access to the citation information quickly.

I’m sure there are dozens of other examples of how the namesaking could be useful, and won’t be surprised to hear from other Brainstormers.

Steve Z.

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