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Serg-Norseman / GEDKeeper

GEDKeeper - program for work with personal genealogical database
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Residence event without value #510

Closed cbettinger closed 6 months ago

cbettinger commented 8 months ago

Today I noticed that I cannot save events of type residence without entering a value anymore. Previously it was no problem to leave the value field empty and just add a location ("Trier (Zeughausstraße 109)" in the example below).

I am using version 2.28.0 or 2.28.1 (see #509).

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Serg-Norseman commented 8 months ago

The inability to store facts without values was introduced to be more consistent with the standard. I myself doubt this decision... Perhaps it was done in vain.

cbettinger commented 8 months ago

Could you cite the part of the GEDCOM specification that requires a non-null event value?

I can find several examples in the 5.5.1 specifiation that demonstrate, that there is no need for a event/residence value:

Page 21:

1 EVEN 2 TYPE Awarded BSA Eagle Rank 2 DATE 1980

Page 75:

1 RESI 2 ADDR 73 North Ashley 3 CONT Spencer, Utah UT84991 2 DATE from 1900 to 1905

Serg-Norseman commented 8 months ago

I looked at the standard. I probably misunderstood page 33 (item RESI).

Or rather, I didn’t make an exception for RESI.