Is there a way to search for, or report on, individuals entered via “Just Type Name”?
I have some folks that are turning out to be significant enough they warrant an “official” entry and I want to make sure I link them in to every fact they’re associated with.
Report on ~ involves only individuals entered and assigned a database record id number. Search for ~ can work for names referenced in other parts of the overall data entries via Find everywhere, and Search.
When I use Search from the left-nav, it only returns persons who have a database record. Is there another way to Search? I may be relegated to doing it via SQL.
Find everywhere is the far right Search icon on that left-nav screen (with a hollow star within the magnifying glass icon). Or use the Find everywhere Search field white block (top-right).
We are but a few days away from the fifteenth (15 years!) anniversary of a SQLite script that was expected to be a short term workaround for the lack of support for these name-only sharers of events. Sadly, little if anything has been done to deliver on the potential of shared events since the feature was introduced in RM4 in 2009.
https://sqlitetoolsforrootsmagic.com/people-who-share-a-fact-with-a-principal-but-who-are-not-in-a-tree-in-the-file-list-query/
That’s what I was trying, but no joy.
Example person
Search results
Am I missing something?
Thanks very much @TomH!
My bad, I had forgotten that feature dialog. I have mostly avoided such elements that are not viewed as linked data, but rather as a data entry convenience for printing… almost like a function key combo to paste a value that’s used frequently. As TomH mentions, it’s incompatible with other software and services conventions.
