In the Master Tag Type List, I have several instances of duplicate, or very similar named tags with exact same sentence. Most of these likely occurred from merging datasets. Is there any way to merge or combine the duplicate type Tags with same sentence? using using TMGv9.05 ~ Win10/64. If I cannot merge, what is best way to clean up the Master Tag List ? Thanks, Jim <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

Hi Jim, First, not sure what you mean by "duplicate" tag types? Do you mean duplicate names? If a Project has multiple Datasets, each Dataset can have its own collection of tag types. You can see this at the top of the Master Tag Type List where you select the Dataset in order to show its separate list of types. But when a Dataset is merged into an existing Dataset, if the receiving Dataset has a tag type of the same name, the global customization to that tag type in the sending Dataset is lost. So you would wind up with only one tag type of that name in the receiving Dataset with the receiving Dataset's sentence. So I would be surprised if you had duplicate tag type "names" in a single Dataset. Next, if you have tag types which have the same global sentence but different names, you might first try to delete one of these tag types from the Master Tag Type List whose "name" you don't wish to keep. If any person has that tag type TMG will warn you so you would not want to delete it. But with no one assigned that tag type there is no harm in deleting that undesired and unused type. (Note that you cannot delete Standard pre-defined tag types no matter what.) Once you have deleted unused tag types be sure to do the TMG maintenance routines. Now you can pick one of the types with the same sentence but different names as what you want all of these similar types to be named. Then you can change all instances of event tag type "a" to event tag type "b" using the TMG Utility. For details of how to do that, see the function "Change Event Type" in the TMG Utility's Help. Hope this helps in your clean up,

TMGU can convert all tags of one of the types into the other, then you can delete the unused tags as below. > On Mar 16, 2018, at 1:00 PM, Michael J Hannah <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > First, not sure what you mean by "duplicate" tag types? Do you mean duplicate names? If a Project has multiple Datasets, each Dataset can have its own collection of tag types. You can see this at the top of the Master Tag Type List where you select the Dataset in order to show its separate list of types. But when a Dataset is merged into an existing Dataset, if the receiving Dataset has a tag type of the same name, the global customization to that tag type in the sending Dataset is lost. So you would wind up with only one tag type of that name in the receiving Dataset with the receiving Dataset's sentence. So I would be surprised if you had duplicate tag type "names" in a single Dataset. > > Next, if you have tag types which have the same global sentence but different names, you might first try to delete one of these tag types from the Master Tag Type List whose "name" you don't wish to keep. If any person has that tag type TMG will warn you so you would not want to delete it. But with no one assigned that tag type there is no harm in deleting that undesired and unused type. (Note that you cannot delete Standard pre-defined tag types no matter what.) > > Once you have deleted unused tag types be sure to do the TMG maintenance routines. Now you can pick one of the types with the same sentence but different names as what you want all of these similar types to be named. Then you can change all instances of event tag type "a" to event tag type "b" using the TMG Utility. For details of how to do that, see the function "Change Event Type" in the TMG Utility's Help. > > Hope this helps in your clean up, > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html