If the "Standardized Event Date" for a date field is selected as "None of the Above", It will not s

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Jeff Wiseman said: The Title says it all. If while editing a date, you make a selection such as:



You will get a date event edit screen like this (as expected):



HOWEVER, if you then click on "Save", the Edit screen disappears but the change IS NOT APPLIED. Is this specific case, since you have removed the Standardized event date, you should get the red "!", but you do not:



And if you return to the edit screen that the original standardized event date has been reinstalled (instead of removed is was shown in the second image):



I may be missing something here, but this doesn't appear to be correct. Furthermore, it is also NOT the way the location editing currently works.

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Gordon Collett said: I can't help but think that this is not a bug but rather is intentional.

With the new feature in the mobile app of improving place names by adding a standard where one is missing and the recently new ability to improve a standard if needed while adding information in the Source Linker, it does seem that a recent effort by FamilySearch is to get rid of as many red exclamation points as possible. Being able to completely remove a perfectly good standard would seem to be counter productive to this effort.

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Jeff Wiseman said: That may be true, but why then even have the choice if it is ignored? Also, the display content may be such that none of the only "perfectly good" standards presented are appropriate. I know that this happens occasionally for locations, and I can imagine rare cases where that might apply to dates.

Whether it is intentional or not, placing a choice on the menu and then silently ignoring and undoing it when it has been selected is just plain wrong IMHO.

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Tom Huber said: For places, selecting "None of the Above" often ends up with the correct standard place selected. I'm not sure why it exists for dates.

I think the reason that None of the Above works for places is that the number of possible standard place entries exceeds the ability of the UI to display them all. I've run into that in the past and have had to go into the https://www.familysearch.org/research... site and do a manual search. I haven't run into this lately, but for a while, it was very common.

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Gordon Collett said: Agreed. At the least it needs an error message such as "standard value cannot be removed" or the choice removed from the drop down menu rather than making unexpected actions that are not visible.