Quickbar

[suzivegemite]

Hi guys,
Today when using my quick bar I noticed something odd. I have my pedigree ancestors in the quick bar, it makes navigating between generations easy.
Today I hovered my cursor over my GG father's name within the quick bar and up popped a little window. Inside the window it shows
Robert George Eden #8
Great grandfather of 'my full name'
b 'my birth date'
bp [[pt:1]] (one would assume it would show my place of birth??)
When I look at my person sheet in family view, my place of birth appears normal as it does in the places sidebar. It also prints correctly in reports.
Is this correct behaviour?? It doesn't seem to be affecting anything, I just wondered why it appears that way.
Taa
S

[Dennis J. Cunniff]

Re: Quickbar

Hi guys,
Today when using my quick bar I noticed something odd. ...bp [[pt:1]]...

"[[pt:1]]" is Reunion's internal representation of a place name. You should never see it, but clearly, sometimes it happens. If it happens with any frequency, you will want to talk with Reunion's help staff to see if you have a corrupt database from which they can help you recover.

What I might do is make a backup copy of the file (so that if anything goes horribly wrong you can go back to square one), and then "Rebuild cache files

[suzivegemite]

Re: Quickbar

Thanks Dennis, I'll do a backup and rebuild cache files as suggested and keep an eye on it.
Sue

[Steve B]

Re: Quickbar

I never noticed before, but on checking I get exactly the same thing.

[Bob White]

Re: Quickbar

[QUOTE=Dennis J. Cunniff;39560]"[[pt:1]]" is Reunion's internal representation of a place name. You should never see it, but clearly, sometimes it happens. If it happens with any frequency, you will want to talk with Reunion's help staff to see if you have a corrupt database from which they can help you recover.

What I might do is make a backup copy of the file (so that if anything goes horribly wrong you can go back to square one), and then "Rebuild cache files

[Steve B]

Re: Quickbar

Unless I'm totally misreading Suzi's question: There is nothing wrong here. At least since version 9 came out, hovering over one of those shortcuts produced said popup. Just double-checked 9. I can't check 8 as I no longer have that installed.

I think there IS something wrong here. Having a popup which says [[pt:1]] rather than the actual place name is rather unhelpful. I have done the cache rebuild previously suggested, and this is still happening. Is anyone else finding this?

[theKiwi]

Re: Quickbar

Adding a bit here - I just tried this on my file, and got an odd result

The attachment here shows the pop up I got when hovering over "Joan van't" but it's a mixture of details between Joan and myself to the right. It uses Joan's name and relationship to me, but the rest of the details are from me - date of birth and other information - including the [[pt:1]] for the place name.

How Bizarre!!!

Roger

Actually some more information - it seems like no matter who I put in the QuickBar, those last 3 lines were always from my information, even after deleting me from the QuickBar - I figured out it was always getting that information from whoever was the Source person for Relationships.

Clearing out all Relationships made the pop up go back to the expected behaviour.

And then recalculating relationships seems to have fixed this - the pop up now behaves.

Roger

[ByronSpoon]

Re: Quickbar

...Clearing out all Relationships made the pop up go back to the expected behaviour.

And then recalculating relationships seems to have fixed this - the pop up now behaves.

Roger

Nice piece of detective work, Roger! I never would have guessed clearing and restoring relationships would clear up the quickbar hover issue.

Actually it takes me one additional step to resolve this issue.
After clearing relationships, I next need to quit and relaunch my family file before the hover text is corrected. (Also the death date and death place will then appear in the hover text) too). Then I can select Relatives and identify relationships to myself once again and the hover text in the quickbar remains correct.

But now I'm curious what action, if any, might trigger the problem to occur again. <grin> Anyway, so far so good.

[kmgenealogy]

Re: Quickbar

Thanks Roger & Byron! I, too, had the same problem. Fixed mine (for now).

[Barnbarroch]

Re: Quickbar

Thanks! I didn't know I had that problem - but your fix worked. I'm glad!
Jamie.

[suzivegemite]

Re: Quickbar

A big thanks to both Roger and Byron also, this forum is the best.
Sue

[kmgenealogy]

Re: Quickbar

It's baaaaack! So, now it goes back to the question of what is causing it? I haven't done anything with the program for the past 4 hours.

[theKiwi]

Re: Quickbar

:-(

Yes it seems to be easily and always repeatable

[Peter Cook]

Re: Quickbar

The bug appears to be confined to individuals - not couples, at least after an initial fix.
Looks like something that may have been accidentally introduced in V10, as I can't duplicate it in an old V9 file I still occasionally access.

[Barnbarroch]

Re: Quickbar

Yes, mine's doing it again.
Jamie.