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FamilySearch Places: Place Type error message

dontiknowyou
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June 22, 2021 edited June 22, 2021 in Suggest an Idea
Screen Shot 2021-06-22 at 11.32.15 AM.png

Programming bug. I tried several place types with same result.

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 15, 2021

    This is a stale bug report. Please move to wherever they go.

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  • Gordon Collett
    Gordon Collett ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 15, 2021 edited July 15, 2021

    Must have been a temporary glitch because things are working fine now:

    Screen Shot 2021-07-15 at 8.48.40 AM.png


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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 15, 2021

    Must have been a temporary glitch

    It was not a glitch, it was a bug: an obvious coding error.

    In any event it is long gone, so of no value in this group.

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  • Gordon Collett
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    July 15, 2021

    Glitch as could be theoretically caused by temporary server outage or hiccup in communication making it impossible for the correctly coded program to access the list of valid place types that self recovered when the database of place types rebooted and restored access to it.

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  • Gordon Collett
    Gordon Collett ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 15, 2021

    Unless insufficient explanation of errors, something pretty common on the website, is considered a bug. Instead of the error message you got, it probably should have said something like "Service temporarily unavailable, please try again later."

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