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Issue As for earlier versions, the order in which Citations for a given fact are presented in RM8 is the order in which they were added. Some users wish for them to be sorted alphabetically by name. Solution A brute ...

This is an 'upgrade' from RMGC_Properties – Query #database for pre-RM8 databases. It provides an expansion over the information provided on the RM8 Home - File Properties screen. With a SQLite manager that supports runtime variables, a summary report can ...

Yeah, really interesting... but you may notice some things are better than they have been:

• the Forum pages update from your post much more quickly
• images that previously were illegible and would not open to full size now do

Forum It's ...

WARNING 2022-06-18: This script has been found defective in the handling of reused citations - see Comments at the bottom. UPDATE 2022-06-12: a version of the script now imports the RM8 ConfigTable to RM7 as it appears to be compatible ...

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WARNING 2022-06-18: This script has been found defective in the handling of reused citations - see Comments at the bottom of Direct Import of RM8 database into RM7 - Part 2. Issue As described in Returning to RM7.5 custom reports, groups ...

UPDATE 2022-05-14: better than GEDCOM is to convert directly from RM8 to RM7 for which there are a couple of possibilities:

1. RM8's File > Export Data > DropBox creates a copy of the active .RMTREE file to a RM7 compatible ...
   
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RM9 Color Picker Changed & Color Coding Sets Added Versions prior to RM9 have but one set of color codes; RM9 added 9 more sets for a total of 10, any one of which can be active. Each color in ...

In RM8, citations are re-useable and have a name which is made by concatenating the contents of the citation fields.
So I run this script on my RM version 7 database so that it is ready for importing into RM ...

RootsMagic 8 introduced indirection between citation data (text fields) and the fact to which a citation is attached, In RM7, the citation data and linkage was combined in the CitationTable. To use the same citation data for more than one ...

Please excuse the recent behaviour of this WordPress site. You have likely heard nothing by email from it since March 2 until yesterday and then some of you may have received flurries of duplicate messages. New subscribers probably received no ...