Nancy I do have RM 10. So that 2nd email may be the one I try first.
Thank you Nancy. I am getting the hang of it. The problem for me is I have many people who need sentences defined for different facts that came over from Ancestry. Seems like it will be quite an endeavor to fix them all! Also I have to read the narrative for that person in order to then construct a sentence that makes sense. But, if I donât do this, then the entire ânarrative reportâ feature is really impossible to understand!
Thank you again for your kind assistance,
Mary
@englerm1125 as I understand , you have both RM 9 and RM 10, so defining facts can be done 2 waysâŚ
1st way if the fact is something like the Freedman Bank Record, you will have to do all of those as described above.
2nd way IF there is a similar fact already in RM 9/ RM 10 such as you now have 2 Birth/ 2 Death/ 2 Burial facts or a similar fact such as LIVED instead of LIVING ( or RESIDENCE) or MILITARY vs MILITARY SERVICEâeach of these facts can be bulk CHANGED FOR EVERYONE at one time ( but one fact at a time)âŚ
Using the example of 2 birth facts
1st make sure you BACK-UP YOUR DATABASE!!!
Then go to your FACT LIST UNDER the 3 dots and EDIT the name of the Birth Fact that has no sentence to BIRTH FACT 2â
hit okay and then close out of thatâŚ
Then open TOOLS ( left side of screen)-- UNDER FACT TOOLS click on CHANGE FACT TYPE FOR EVERYONEâ click on that and in the box on the right-- in the first box put the fact you want to GET RID OF --2nd box fact you want TO KEEP-- click on RUN SELECTED TOOL and it should be done
once done, you can go back to the FACT LIST and delete the BIRTH 2 factânote if you try to delete it and it says it is still being used, that means it didnât change all the factsâso donât delete it and post a message here and we will tell you how to fix thatâŚ
Basically when writing a fact sentence, you are just changing the wording in between the <[ ]> and deciding if you want to use <[desc]> and getting the spacing right between the
<[ ]> <[ ]> and or words
so it is real easy to change a basic statement like
[person] was born< [Date]>< [PlaceDetails]>< [Place]>.
to
[person] was listed in the Chicago City Directory < [Date]>< [PlaceDetails]>< [Place]>. <[desc]>. ( remembering to put a check mark in desc --so you can list their occupation also)âŚ
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Hi all,
I am new here and my question is related to this post, so thought to ask here.
I am changing my facts to portuguese and is working fine. However, I am having truble with date and place fields. It seems âonâ and âinâ is embeded in date fields and not words in the sentence, highlited in yellow.
The fact template does not include âonâ and âinâ.
Anyone knows how to remove?
Thanks!!!
You need to use the modifier :plain after both Date and Place.
See the HELP for Sentence Template Language
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Thanks very much! I´ve tried different things following the help, but this âplainâ was not clear for me.
RM cannot produce a narrative report completely in a language other than English because some of the report text is hard-coded in English and not under the control of sentence templates.
