* RM to FH: how to convert UDF item to fact flag - preferred, private

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LeslieP
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RM to FH: how to convert UDF item to fact flag - preferred, private

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In RootsMagic we mark events as Primary or Private as needed, FH7 now has the same concept with the Fact Flags "preferred" and "private".

The plugin UDF list gives me the list of those items, screenshot attached.
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Is there a way to create a query that could find those items and set the fact flags as appropriate? Is a query the right thing to look at for solving this?

It would be one of those queries that I'd want to share to other RM converts, making things much easier for them.

Or is there some other way to do this that I haven't figured out yet?
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Re: RM to FH: how to convert UDF item to fact flag - preferred, private

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No, there is no way that can be performed with a Query.
The options in a Query only allows record Flags to be added to whole Individual records and not facts.
It will need a custom Plugin to be written to perform the changes. Are you up for that challenge?
Once written it would be published in the Plugin Store for all to use and mentioned in the FHUG KB under importing.
Mike Tate ~ researching the Tate and Scott family history ~ tatewise ancestry
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Re: RM to FH: how to convert UDF item to fact flag - preferred, private

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Oh well, best to know rather than not know, I'll add it to the list of needed plugins.

First one is the plugin to convert all but the first name into alt name attributes, second will be this fact flag conversion. Learning LUA will have to come after I make the final RM import. The great news is that the info is there, ready to be converted from UDF when I'm ready to deal with it!

Still stepping through the UDF list to come up with my conversion process list.

<headdesk>Just discovered that RM exports the repository note field as a "2 NOTE" on the address of the repository, which FH puts into the UDF field, because that's just not where the repository note is supposed to go. Oh my.
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