The developer of GedView (I have GedView on my iPad and iPhone) did come up with a solution to "convert" a RootsMagic shared fact to individual facts when importing a GEDCOM. This being the case, it would seem that RootsMagic is exporting the shared fact correctly, thus the receiving program/developer needs to be able to convert the shared fact to an individual fact. David Knight (the developer of GedView) developed a solution so other developers should also be able to come up with the solution. Ron Bernier Woonsocket, RI -----Original Message----- From: rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of David Massie Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 7:51 AM Cc: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RMagic] Shared Facts vs. Shortcuts for Individual entries On 06/11/12 19:41, Kate Redford wrote: > It is my understanding that the problems with GedCom files are the > GedCom capabilities with exporting files to them. Until that "old, > old" program is upgraded and rewritten, RM5 or any third part program > cannot make changes and avoid the way GedCom files are handled when they are imported. > Indeed, but RM could get round that, by creating an ordinary fact on a GEDCOM file, when it sees a shared fact on its database. The receiving program would then see a standard GEDCOM, and process it OK. -- Regards Dave =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

It's probably more accurate to say that RM exports its shared events in a proprietary custom GEDCOM format that GEDview has been programmed to recognize and convert to standard GEDCOM, i.e., individual events. Tom On 2012-11-07, at 8:22 AM, Ronald Bernier <ronaldbernier@bernfrin.org> wrote: > The developer of GedView (I have GedView on my iPad and iPhone) did come up with a solution to "convert" a RootsMagic shared fact to individual facts when importing a GEDCOM. This being the case, it would seem that RootsMagic is exporting the shared fact correctly, thus the receiving program/developer needs to be able to convert the shared fact to an individual fact. David Knight (the developer of GedView) developed a solution so other developers should also be able to come up with the solution.