Previously, when I entered a birth, marriage, burial fact - date and text they would then show up next to the person in the person profile, and the dates would show in the Search index even. All of a sudden all the dates etc that I have entered do not show up anywhere unless I open the detailed screen for the person and they will show in the drop down list but not at the top with the person. I have checked my entries and gone back and looked for any differences in previous entries to today’s to see if something has changed but nothing shows up.
Go to File, Tools, Database Tools and run all options there. It’s the rebuild index es tool that will fix it, but it good to run the all periodically.
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I think there may be two separate issues here. Renee has already addressed on of them, namely how to get the birth year and death year to appear to appear in the sidebar index.
The second issue may not be the one you are talking about. But for me, RM7 had much more information about a person’s birth, death and marriage directly on the screen than do RM8/RM9/RM10. As I result, I frequently find my self opening the Edit Person screen in RM8/9/10 to see such information where I could see it directly on the screen in RM7.
I do realize that in theory this information should be visible for the highlighted person in the top half of the RM8/9/10 sidebar. But I don’t find that the top half of the sidebar works very well for me.
Thanks for you response, I did run the database tool and rebuild indexes tool but unfortunately nothing has changed re dates as they still are not seen. I realized as I was doing this, that the problem appeared for the first time right after I ran the RM10 update the other day, so I’m wondering if that is the cause?
Jerry, I completely agree with your comment re RM7 providing much more info on person’s vital stats on screen than versions since, and I do miss that also - perhaps the tech people will look at further enhancements for RM10 on this issue.
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Perhaps we need a screen shot of the problem. I could be wrong, but I think the RM10 update is unlikely to be the cause.
Do you have more than one birth or death fact? If so, are any of them blank and marked primary? Burial facts are a substitute for death facts in certain scenarios, but will not display in the sidebar index or any column that is for the death fact. Same with the christen fact as a birth substitute.