| Reference | 495 |
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| Title | Explaining where data comes from |
| Category | Queries |
| Description | I would find it useful, when constructing queries and customising column headings (and also for occasional manual edits to the GEDCOM), to be able to relate a piece of displayed data to the internal ways in which that data is identified. Let me try and explain this idea with an
example. In an individual's Property window, there's a pair of fields "Born ____ in ____". If I right-click in either of those fields, I currently get a pretty obscure set of choices ("open IME", anyone?). What I'd like to see is an additional choice, let's say "About this data". So if I selected that for the birthplace field, FH might tell me some or all of: - the GEDCOM spec description of this field's purpose. - the GEDCOM storage form, and its approximate location in the file. For example: Around line 12345: 01 BIRT 02 DATE xxx 02 PLAC xxx - the FH way of referring to the data. For example: %INDI.BIRT.PLAC% - anything else that might be helpful. I'm looking for a set of broader and more consistent data descriptions than the options currently available. (see url for discussion). |
| Web Link | http://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=6223 |
| Votes | 5 |
| Rating | 2.6 |
| Added | Wednesday 25th July 2012 |
| Last Vote | Tuesday 30th October 2018 |
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