Disproven facts and Reports

I decided to try out a disproven fact this morning. I love the way it puts a line through the fact and makes it red (coloring doesn’t show in my screenshot). However, this disproven fact then appears in reports with nothing indicating it’s been disproven.

The manual doesn’t seem to elaborate on this. Am I missing something?

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No, sadly you are not. Despite recurring requests for enhancements to support the variable in search, colorcoding, groups, reports…

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Well dang. I can’t tell you how excited I was for this feature. I can make my note appear, but how many people actually read those notes?

You could vary the text in the Description field to reflect that it was disproven and that should appear in all reports that include the fact. Maybe add “(Disproven - see note)”

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That works well, it’s quite noticeable in the report. Thank you!

You’re welcome. It’s been fascinating to watch you charge ahead up the learning curve and fast becoming an authority on how to use RM10.

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Thanks! I tend to research and self educate as much as possible, but sometimes my blonde roots get in my way :).

If I don’t completely immerse myself right away, I won’t make and remember all the software connections. I’m fairly decent with technology, but in no way a techie. I’m struggling with understanding the RM language when it comes to source templates and sentence templates, but AI has been rather helpful ironing them out when I get it wrong :slight_smile:

Do a search here on the term “disproven” to find some useful prior discussions:

  • change disproven facts to an alternate fact type, necessary for Birth if the disproven one is referenced by age calculation, can be made private.
  • instead of the text I suggested, an emoji
  • and more…, @JillV had constructive requests for enhancements
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Great suggestion there Tom BUT RM support told me a few months back

I noticed on the RM10 file you have emojis on some of your names. RM10 is not coded to know what the emoji is and may effect results in different functions of RM10.

Turns out the problem I was having at the time was NOT due to the use of emojis but a 64 bit problem which has been corrected..

That said I know I have suggested using emojis before but

Emojis are just characters in Unicode. Why would RM care about which characters one uses unless there is functionality in the app that I am unaware of.

well some programs do make use of some weird uses of double character to perform some action and so on – such as to display the value of a field name (such username etc) - -but those are not common and probably not part of most emojis

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