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sgroarke · Post by **sgroarke** » 27 Mar 2006 22:53

Here's something that has me stumped:

I have a GEDCOM which I periodically post on a website using PhpGedView.

Of my many sources, one of them (let's call it S89) requires complete confidentiality. Not just no-name, but the facts supplied must not be seen by *anyone* else.

PhpGedView does not have the privacy-granularity to let me configure 'All facts tagged as S89, mask'.

So I guess I am reduced to instead using the split-tree tool to filter the GEDCOM on the way out from FH... So to my question: Is it possible to use a combination of query and split-tree to remove all references to S89.

Caveat: 'references' might mean several things:

1) A record with S89 on the name. Thus the whole record would be yanked.
2) A fact (e.g. occupation) with only S89 as a source. The occupation would thus get yanked.
3) A fact (e.g. occupation) with sources S89 and (say) S90. Here we only require to yank the S89 tag, not the fact (nor record) itself.

So, in summary, I need to remove all traces of S89 and all facts that came uniquely from S89, but nothing else.

Your starter for 10.

[confused]

Sean

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 27 Mar 2006 23:09

The sort answer is probably no.

You could get part way as you can easily find all the records with Source S89 and show where source S89 is the first source on the item, but I think the rest is too complicated to do with in FH, you could always write a basic program to clean up the data. I suspect it's probably the only way.

sgroarke · Post by **sgroarke** » 28 Mar 2006 07:02

Jane,

Thanks for replying. I thought the answer might be 'no'. But it's good to know that with more certainty - there's nothing worse than spending time and effort creating a solution and then finding out that clickity-click on the right menu option would have achieved the same thing!!

Thanks,
Sean

Tombaston · Post by **Tombaston** » 28 Mar 2006 21:36

Why not make a copy of your data in a new file, open that file, go to the Sources tab and delete the source. This seems to delete all mention of it throughout the file. Or have I missed something?

Tombaston · Post by **Tombaston** » 28 Mar 2006 21:45

Sorry I just reread your original posting and realised I missed the bit about deleting all the facts that were linked to the source.
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