Date and Place Standardization
Flag nonstandard Dates and Places.
In the old version of Familytree I saw a symbol letting me know that something was not standard. Now unless I edit that item I do not see any flag. Please put the flag back on the Detail view so I know what needs to be standardized. I just saw a date that was entered as
Death
29 SFebruary 1952
I had to look 3 times before I noticed it was not standard.
It would be very nice if non-standard dates and places were in a different color on the details page and went back to black and white when corrected.
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I tried to replicate your issue, but the date entered (as above) was not flagged in either the old or new versions of the Details page. Perhaps you could post screenshots or provide a URL for the page where you are seeing this.
(BTW - a standardized date of "0029" was produced if I entered the date exactly as shown, then hit Return. If I hit the space bar after the entry I had a choice of 29 SFebruary 1952 - which standardizes to 0029, if chosen, or "1952", which changes the display date to just the year - 1952 - if chosen.)
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Non-standardized entries ARE marked, in both the old and the new layouts, in red.
The system doesn't know whether the selected standard is correct or not, so naturally, it does not mark that, in either layout.
The only thing the old layout had that the new one (thankfully) does away with is the always-misunderstood map pin icon, which indicated that the display value happened to match an entry in the database in the current interface language. That (dratted) icon does not mean what people think it means. It simply marks a small subset of standardized entries that meet a particular criterion in a particular context. It does not mean "standardized" -- and more importantly, its absence does not mean "not standardized".
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