The move from RM7 caused some loss in fuctionality when dealing with LDS ordinances. I have two suggestions to make it easier to get “submitted” or “reserved” back into a person’s facts without having to manually add each LDS fact when we have reserved ordinances. (1) On the FamilySearch Person Tools page in the Ordinances tab, on the Official FS Ordinances side of the page, add in the little check boxes (the same little boxes that are next to the dates) when an ordinance is listed as “reserved” so we can move that over to the RM side of the page. This allows us to easily add the ordinance facts with “reserved” in them without having to create each fact one at a time. (2) or as an alternative, on the Edit Person page place a temple symbol under the DNA symbol on the left that would open up the same window in RM7 that was in the LDS Facts tab. I really miss that pop-up window. We could just open it up, click “submitted” for the ordinances that we had submitted and then those facts would show up on the person’s facts list. As things are now a lot of time is wasted when we have to create a fact for every ordinance that we submit.
One of the reason you don’t want to add “reserved” ordinances is when the fact is completed you have to go in and remove that fact with a reserved status. Otherwise, simply adding the completed fact will just leave you with two facts. The “reserved” fact won’t get overwritten.
The statuses in RM are the old temple ready statuses and that is an obsolete system. We didn’t remove it because some people have not migrated out of it. I wouldn’t recommend the continued use of them to add statuses.
What I have done is created a custom fact type FSFT with a date and description field. I enter a code on what is reserved, pending or completed. Then I can created groups based on those codes and and track what is completed.
I’m used to deleting the duplicate facts; it is a whole lot faster than creating each fact one at a time. The FSFT fact that you suggested doesn’t work for my purposes because I use the “submitted” entries from the LDS facts pop-up in RM7 to track my submissions. When I print the FGS it shows “submitted” (or another choice from the menu) in the date column. That is always my check to make sure everything is done (or still needs to be done) for the family. I did notice that in RM10 when I selected ‘submitted’ from the edit fact area that the entry (i.e. submitted) is no longer showing up in the date column for the ordinances. That is unfortunate. The way things work now in RM10 adds several minutes to every temple submission that I do. In RM7 it was literally a 5 second process.