Custom Event created by Source Linker
@dlmelville has asked:
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Frankly, I delete such events as a matter of course for exactly the above reasons, so it was wasted effort to program them.
Although, arguably "Widowed" is more useful than "married" when there is already a spouse sat there on the profile or "Single" when it's a child… So I might leave "Widowed" on…
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@dlmelville I'm glad that you pointed out in your original post that this is just an option in the source linker. Because it is only an option. One that I never take advantage of. I leave that status information on the left side so I don't have to delete it later. In order to explain my view of the question you bring up, I am going to rephrase it:
"Why does the Source Linker present all the information in an indexed source record and give users the option to move any or all of that information in that source to the corresponding Family Tree profile even if that means creating new standard events or new custom events or even new individual profiles?"
And my answer would be because the engineers have designed the source linker to give us users the greatest flexibility possible in handing all the information in an indexed source and it was probably far easier to have the routine treat all information in the source the same rather than to try to come up with the multitude of potential variations of what the indexes might contain and what users might want to do with that information; make a judgement call as to what we users should or shouldn't include; and then program in countless exceptions.
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@Gordon Collett said that "it was probably easier to have the routine treat all information in the source the same rather than to try to come up with the multitude…"
That is an interesting point that hadn't occurred to me, I must admit. We need things like "married" on a census record to enable (potential) searching on it. And if the potential load onto the profile is simply a full list of all the items, one by one, then my comment about it being a waste of time to program them, isn't right because it'll just loop round all the items regardless - no extra programming needed.
It would be good to point out to people that just because it's there, doesn't mean it must go over to the profile. At the moment, there's too many bits of data that appear to have been created by people believing in "more is more".
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