Index editor says to "edit linked place": where? how?
(I'm not fully satisfied with Search as the appropriate category for index editor questions, but it seems closer than any of the other offerings.)
A question in the Austria-Hungary group had me poking at one of the many thousands of index entries where the autostandardizer has avoided saying complete falsehoods by the simple expedient of not saying anything much: the event location has become "Slovakia, Czechoslovakia". In addition to being wildly anachronistic for these 19th century registers, this is also entirely devoid of actual information, given that the collection is the Slovakia Church Books.
While the vast scope of the problem is disheartening, I figured I could at least fix the one record, right?
Wrong. Or not by any method that I can find. I clicked Edit, and then the pencil after the principal's (the groom's) name, and scrolled down — only to find everything greyed out, and a cryptic instruction: "Edit linked place".
OK, fine, but how????
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Julia, have you tried using the "Add or remove fields" in the Place box? I know a few times I've had to delete a place to input the correct place. I have the record open, but I don't want to interfere by attempting an edit while you're trying to do the same.
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@Áine Ní Donnghaile, no, I hadn't tried that. Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't work: the existing event place is locked.
And the "Place" bubble is greyed out under Event Fields, so I can't add the correct place, or not in such a way that, say, Source Linker will have any clue of its existence.
I just looked throught the rest of the options, and not a single one of them makes sense to me here. I mean, really, "Swamp"???
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So, the option must be somewhere deeper in the entrails of the beast. Perhaps, ask in the Places group? Perhaps an engineer lurking there may know.
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