Many other programs allow arbitrary formats for dates, that Family Historian will often interpret as Date Phrases, which can easily be recognised as they are shown in quotation marks. Using plugins it is possible to correct the majority if they are consistently formatted.<\/p>\n
A good place to start is to download and run the Find Date Phrases<\/a> plugin. If it only lists a few Date Phrases in its Result Set, it is normally a quick job to double click on the Date column items to jump to the Date fields and correct them.<\/p>\n Download and run the Fix Date Fields<\/a> plugin.<\/p>\n Use the List option to see what might get fixed.<\/p>\n Then after creating a backup, use the Mend option.<\/p>\n If any Dates are still NOT FIXED then try the techniques below or ask for assistance in the Forums.<\/p>\n Open the Tools > Plugins<\/a> window and click the More\u00bb button, select the Fix Date Fields <\/a> plugin, and click Edit. Then use the File > Save As<\/a> option to save the plugin with a new Plugin Name such as Fix Date Phrases.<\/p>\n Reviewing the code you will find a table of conversion codes around lines 250 to 280. These use LUA Patterns to define the Date to be detected and its replacement. Simply copy & paste one of the existing lines and change the patterns. Ask for help in the Forums if you cannot figure out what is needed.<\/p>\n Date fields can be corrected using the Search and Replace<\/a> plugin, but does require an understanding of LUA Patterns.<\/p>\n Run the Search and Replace Plugin:<\/p>\n Search: between 00(%d%d) and (%d+) (%a+ %d%d%d%d) Search: “BET (%d- ?%a+) AND (.-) (%d%d%d%d)” Search: “BET (.-%d%d%d%d) AND (.-%d%d%d%d)” Search: “(%d+)%-(%d+) (%a+ %d%d%d%d)”Correcting Dates with “Fix Date Fields”<\/h3>\n
Correcting Dates with a Custom Plugin<\/h3>\n
Correcting Dates with “Search and Replace”<\/h3>\n
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“BET Day AND Day Month Year”<\/h4>\n
\nReplace: between %1 %3 and %2 %3<\/p>\n“BET Day Month AND Date”<\/h4>\n
\nReplace: between %1 %3 and %2 %3<\/p>\n“BET Date AND Date”<\/h4>\n
\nReplace: between %1 and %2<\/p>\n“Day-Day Month Year”<\/h4>\n
\nReplace: from %1 %3 to %2 %3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","fh_version":[14,15,739],"skill_level":[18,17],"topic":[725,58],"class_list":["post-10577","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","fh_version-v5","fh_version-v6","fh_version-v7","skill_level-advanced","skill_level-intermediate","topic-importing","topic-importing-and-exporting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/10577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fh_version","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fh_version?post=10577"},{"taxonomy":"skill_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/skill_level?post=10577"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}