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Many tables within RootsMagic have fields which are know to mean something but do not have lookup tables. So far I have collected the following: (more to follow) Fields named OwnerType – see Understanding the RootsMagic 8 database – Ownership Addresses AddressType field Value Meaning 0 Correspondence 1 Repository Citations The Quality field in the…
The RootsMagic 8 database structure has seen a few changes from RM7 and one of these is that more objects can “own” other objects in the data. A task can have media, citations and web tags for example. To achieve this many tables have an OwnerType field and an OwnerID field and the owner type…
Thanks to member momakid, we have a new spreadsheet of data definitions available on Google Sheets. The new fields in RM8 are not completely described so your input is welcome. You may comment directly on the spreadsheet, on this page or in the Forum. Open full spreadsheet
Comparing the CREATE statements for a database file of each version reveals changes to persisting tables in addition to tables deleted and added per First Look at RM8 #Database. This post provides DDL files from RM7.6.5 and the RM8 Preview 7.9.101. The two files can be compared line by line in Notepad++ using the Compare…
ConfigTable RecID 1 DataRec Default The first record of ConfigTable consists of XML in the RecID field that stores various database file settings. The current version and its data can be restructured and displayed as follows (Values column to be verified): See sheet “ConfigTableDefaultRec1” on Database Design Spreadsheets.
RootsMagic 4+ creates a database file with the same root name as the .rmgc file but with the extension .DUP when Tools > Merge > Duplicate Search Merge is started. It contains one table that serves the Merge dialog until it is exited. This database is unused thereafter until the next Duplicate Search Merge is…
RootsMagic 4+ Data Definitions See spreadsheets “DataDefsMstr” and “DataDefsFieldSort” on Database Design Spreadsheets. Discussions & comments from Wikispaces site romermb Adding To/Updating File romermb 08 January 2010 21:35:48 A few of us so far have been trying to add the Notes, etc details to the various table fields in the file referenced in this page.…
RootsMagic 4+ Database Tables – Summary See the sheet “TblSum” on Database Design Spreadsheets.
RootsMagic 4-7 Database Design You will need to know a little about the RootsMagic database to design your own queries and modify others to suit your needs. File Types installed and created by RootsMagic 4+ each .rmgc database file Table Summaries role of each table in the database Database System Catalog tables and indexes along…
The database documentation was done largely on RootsMagic version 6.0.0.2. It’s unlikely that the database schema will change through successive updates. However, any changes may be detected by opening a database created by each version with a SQLite manager, then exporting either a query of the full sqlite_master table or the database schema (just the…