Arman 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2005 Does anyone know why it is not possible to merge individuals in different data sets. This would save a lot of time when synchronizing projects! (Refer to How to sync data of a replicated project?, Merging chances from multiple researchers and What is the best way to merge projects, Excluding the duplicates.) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim Byram 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2005 The simple answer is that each data set is in a different box by design and there are no data manipulations between data sets. This is unlikely to change. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Terry Reigel 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2005 Does anyone know why it is not possible to merge individuals in different data sets. This would save a lot of time when synchronizing projects! The whole intent of having separate Data Sets in a Project is to allow them to be kept entirely separate, so you can import an examine data from different sources without any possiblity of contaminating your working data. As a result you cannot link people in different data sets. Different data sets can have different, and conflicting, settings for tag types, source types, flags, styles, etc. so merging or moving people between them requires resolution of all those issues. See the section "Potential Conflicts when Merging Data Sets" near the bottom of my article on Merging for discussion of how this is done when merging Data Sets. Since people in different data sets cannot be linked, merging them makes no sense. You can always copy the person into the other data set and them merge them if you want. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
