Temple Ordinance Data
As a FamilySearch Missionary, and in using this CET for the first time, I am wondering why Temple Ordinance data is not showing in the tree and on person pages that I open from within the tree…
I chose several ancestors that have had work done and do not see the ordinances listed or where I could request them. Once I change back to the regular, non-CET tree I can once again see ordinance and Temple data
Answers
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Seeing temple data and reserving ordinances for PID in a CET is not currently enabled. Product and engineering teams are designing and exploring this as a future feature. To perform ordinances for a person in your CET you will need to copy that person to the Shared Family Tree first.
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Just wondering what the rationale is for not making it available now?
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Just another user here so I can only speculate, but from what I have seen CET trees should really not be viewed as a part of Family Tree. That is, it is not a private section of the full Family Tree database. That database contains 1) the universal tree with one copy of each person with the each person's listing of needed and completed temple work, 2) a user's private space of all the living people that user entered were no temple work is displayed, and 3) Family Groups in which a set of users can view and edit a group of living people where again no temple work shows. Any family group a user might belong to is separate from any user's private space and may contain duplicates of every profile in that private space.
These CET trees are basically editable Pedigree Resource File trees. PRF trees which also were created from GEDCCOM uploads also are completely separate from Family Tree, have never contained temple work information, and contain hundreds to thousands duplicates of profiles, just like CETs. GEDCOMs have never been able to upload temple ordinance dates because dates coming from a person's private tree are not official. Only the dates found in Family Tree are official.
When you look at a profile in your CET tree and then at the equivalent profile in Family Tree, you are looking at two different profiles that at this point have no connection between them. I admire the developers for even considering incorporating temple functions into CET when they may have to keep track of a few hundred duplicate profiles in CETs that will need to be connected in some way to their official temple profile in Family Tree.
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Gordon,
All of your insights are accurate. Thanks for your involvement in the community.
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@R.Brock Thank you for using CET and providing feedback. As @Robert Kehrer mentioned above, this ordinance information might be added at a later date. Watch for an announcement about it.
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