* V3 to V4 handing of TEXT in source

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JonAxtell
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V3 to V4 handing of TEXT in source

Post by JonAxtell » 06 May 2009 14:24

I wish to make a request that V4 should handle the multiple occurrence of TEXT fields in SOUR records in more user friendly manner than just dropping them.

It is standard practise throughout all other programs that when change occurs that the upgrade handles any specifics to make the old data work with the new version.

Since the issue is the bug of not stopping multiple TEXTs, FH must handle the conversion to proper Gedcom and convert the TEXTs into NOTEs. It is only multiple TEXTs in FH v3 files which will get converted to NOTEs, not Gedcoms from other programs.

This way no data is lost and the user is not inconvenienced having to fix the Gedcom file manually in a text editor or manually re-keying it in from the exception report.

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V3 to V4 handing of TEXT in source

Post by NickWalker » 06 May 2009 18:53

I tend to agree, though I think it might have been better just to join them all together into one source text field.
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