Moving Place Details from one Place to another

RootsMagic
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I have a few Place Details (particularly cemetery names) that I put incorrectly into a specific Place. Now, I’d like to easily ‘move’ or ‘transfer’ those Place Details to their proper place.

Example: I incorrectly assigned Zimmer Cemetery to the location Delwood, Pope, Illinois. In reality, the cemetery was never in Delwood at all but simply a rural cemetery out in the county itself.

Problem: I’ve got about 22 ancestors with Burial Fact Type records in this cemetery. I think my current fix is to open each of those 22 and delete the Delwood part of the Place Details, essentially creating a new Place Detail record in the Pope County Place. But then, all of the Notes, Media, Tasks and Webtags would then need to be manually copied into the new Zimmer Cemetery record.

Request: I’d like an easier method to simply mark (maybe a checkbox) a Place Detail to be moved, then have a pop-up selector of some sort to choose the new Place for that detail record. On the backend in the database, it would be a simple update to the PlaceTable.MasterID column for that Place Detail and an update to the affected Person records changing the Place of the Fact Type.

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That you know the database structure well enough to assert that it is simple to accomplish on the backend suggests that you are capable of doing your needed changes with your SQLite manager. So you don’t need this particular enhancement? How many others do and how many would it take to motivate the developers to put in the effort on it rather than on something else?

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Confirming request has been reported to development.

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What happens when you do Places>Tools Split Place ?
That should work. Backup first :slight_smile:

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@TomH thanks for the advice. But my intent is not necessarily to fix my personal problem at this moment. I’m well aware that fixes like this don’t happen overnight, and I could readily do it manually long before the code would ever be fixed/enhanced. My intent is to point out a functionality that would improve overall usefulness and simplicity for a problem I am sure others encounter. I am positive I’m not the first to add Place Details to then leave them orphaned by simply adding the detail to a different place. Or, that need to go back time after time and clean up those orphans… That’s kinda why a comment like mine is termed ‘feature-request’…

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It’s a simple enough piece of SQL that would be a great enhancement to RM.

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