A year earlier than 1300 is not accepted by FreeREG

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A year earlier than 1300 is not accepted by FreeREG

Opened this issue 2 years ago · 7 comments

The earliest year that FreeREG will accept in a transcription is 1300. There are records that give earlier years so we should be able to enter them.

Answer 1 · 2022-10-27T08:10:25.000Z

I won't get involved in coding FreeREG, but the relevant value (YEAR_MIN) is set in /lib/freereg_validations.rb. Presumably we need a minimum year for validation purposes: so what should it be, @SteveBiggs?

Answer 2 · 2022-10-27T08:16:14.000Z

I seem to remember that we could enter even earlier than 1000. The problem was a leading zero. But it could have been in FR1.
Is it possibke to edit the entry after uploading without validation?

Answer 3 · 2022-10-27T08:51:36.000Z

In what context do you hit this limit? When entering actual records? From an examination of the (Rails) code, YEAR_MIN is primarily used as a start point when calculating numbers for places, churches and registers.

Answer 4 · 2022-10-27T09:34:23.000Z

This cropped up a long time ago, when someone wanted to upload records with pre 1000 dates ( ie with 3 digit year dates). I seem to remember that it was decided to put a leading zero in front of the record year and that was done. So the question is: who has back tracked and remove the leading zero? Eric Booker On 27 Oct 2022, at 09:51, Richard Light ***@***.***> wrote: In what context do you hit this limit? When entering actual records? From an examination of the (Rails) code, YEAR_MIN is primarily used as a start point when calculating numbers for places, churches and registers. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2609 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACHPJAEKMMTKIJNNDEORVVTWFI7CJANCNFSM6AAAAAARPLKRD4>. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.

Answer 5 · 2022-10-27T10:51:46.000Z

Ideally, there would be no limit to the year but we certainly need to be able to go pre-1000. Maybe 0000 should be the limit (however, there are known records of births of Kings, etc. even BC!) I don't know why 1300 was chosen as a lower limit.

I tried editing a record on FreeREG and it does not allow any date before 1300.

Answer 6 · 2022-10-28T10:04:02.000Z

indeed, Stephen. I have a chart of English Kings which starts pre 410 with the Roman governors. Then c500 with King Arthur and so on with 18 kings before it gets to 122-1307 for Edward 2nd. Eric B On 27 Oct 2022, at 11:51, Stephen Biggs ***@***.***> wrote: Ideally, there would be no limit to the year but we certainly need to be able to go pre-1000. Maybe 0000 should be the limit (however, there are known records of births of Kings, etc. even BC!) I don't know why 1300 was chosen as a lower limit. I tried editing a record on FreeREG and it does not allow any date before 1300. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2609 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACHPJAFQTMGIZI3VLNX2IDDWFJNEZANCNFSM6AAAAAARPLKRD4>. You are receiving this because you commented.

Answer 7 · 2022-11-30T16:19:09.000Z

@Captainkirkdawson do you have any ideas on this?