Odd problem in Beta site - unfinished attachments, when there are NO attachments made

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Justin Masters said: The nature of the "problem" I'm seeing on the BETA site is that on an ancestor https://beta.familysearch.org/tree/pe... , I look at sources that are attached https://beta.familysearch.org/tree/pe... , and I see for the 1900 Census "This source has not been attached to all people found in the record."

When I click on "Unfinished Attachments" landing here: https://beta.familysearch.org/search/...

I find there are NO attachments made.

So, the question is... HOW was this attached in the first place to be able to show an Unfinished attachment error message in which NO attachments are even visible? I see it was supposedly created by me in 2016... but NO attachments? (Data transfer error between Production and Beta?) Hopefully this isn't some kind of "bit-rot" that is happening on the production side as well.

(I saw the same thing on 1910, and wondered about it, but attached them anyway, but seeing it again for the 1900 Census... )

Someone else pointed out that this functionality should not be considered for an error, since beta is not meant to be a full working mirror of production, but I wanted to point this out, in case some extra "functionality" has been introduced that may get carried into production.

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ejland said: The reason you don't see any attachments after clicking "Unfinished Attachments" is because the record attached in the 1900 source is a https://familysearch.org/ark and not https://beta.familysearch.org/ark: The call to look up attachments takes the current system (beta or production) and looks for arks within that system. When we copy production down to beta the arks come down as production arks and thus the unfinished attachments feature in beta isn't reporting accurately for people copied over from production during the beta refresh.

On that same person note that the recently attached 1910 record has a beta ark url and when clicking "review attachments" it shows everyone being attached. When clicking on the older 1910 record at the bottom of the source list and click review attachments it also shows everyone attached because it finds the beta ark that was attached from the newer source.

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Justin Masters said: Thanks for explaining Eric! Hopefully I'll remember all this in case I find any future occurrances.

I know I attached all the 1910 folks... (who also appeared completely unattached).

So... does the attachment process change the production arks to a beta arks link?

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Paul said: Justin

Just go back to the ID in question and you'll see the "beta arks link" was created when you added the 1910 source whilst working in the beta version. The URL without the beta. prefix was created when you had previously added the same source whilst in the production version. All explained to you already in the other thread!