Keith Winters 0 Report post Posted October 15, 2006 In doing some reorganising of tag labels and events on the Details screen, I appear to have achieved the unlikely outcome of creating an event without any corresponding tags to describe it. It disappears from the Details screen but shows up in narrative reports as a spurious blank space punctuated by a full stop when listing all events. If I do a List Events report, with Tag Type Label as an output column, then the event is listed but the Tag Type Label is blank. Without a label it doesn't appear in the Details screen or the Master Events screen for editing so I am unable to delete it. Has anyone come across anything like this and is there any way around it? Any advice would be much appreciated. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Virginia Blakelock 0 Report post Posted October 15, 2006 In doing some reorganising of tag labels and events on the Details screen, I appear to have achieved the unlikely outcome of creating an event without any corresponding tags to describe it. It disappears from the Details screen but shows up in narrative reports as a spurious blank space punctuated by a full stop when listing all events. If I do a List Events report, with Tag Type Label as an output column, then the event is listed but the Tag Type Label is blank. Without a label it doesn't appear in the Details screen or the Master Events screen for editing so I am unable to delete it. Has anyone come across anything like this and is there any way around it? Any advice would be much appreciated. Check the Master Tag Type List (under Tools). I found I could Add a new tag type with a label of just a period (.). Maybe you have something like that - a blank space followed or preceded by a (.). If you do, you could either delete it there or give it a name. Virginia Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Keith Winters 0 Report post Posted October 15, 2006 Check the Master Tag Type List (under Tools). I found I could Add a new tag type with a label of just a period (.). Maybe you have something like that - a blank space followed or preceded by a (.). If you do, you could either delete it there or give it a name. Virginia Thanks Virginia, but everything looks fine in the Master list with various combinations of deactivated/LDS tag options. The data originally came from a FTM import, so I can only think the indexing is screwed up in places. I'm happy to input data by hand for anything that hasn't been imported correctly, but I still need a way of deleting these tagless events, unfortunately, as they mess up the narrative reports. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GenerationGoneBy 0 Report post Posted October 15, 2006 Have you ran VFI and OPTIMIZE? Those may fix what you are seeing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Keith Winters 0 Report post Posted October 15, 2006 Have you ran VFI and OPTIMIZE? Those may fix what you are seeing. Brilliant!! Many, many thanks Teresa - you have spared me hours trying to find a workaround. I had tried optimisation to no avail, but not VFI, and the two together have done the trick. The hitherto tagless events have now been given a GEDCOM tag - some turn out to be real events like baptisms and others are spurious links to other names. The origin of the problem was almost certainly the oiginal import from FTM, so the lesson learnt is ALWAYS to do VFI and optimisation after an import. Thanks again, Keith Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GenerationGoneBy 0 Report post Posted October 16, 2006 I find running it regularly saves me a lot of headaches and keeps things running smoothly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
