New error message that leaves you no options save anyway.

Question

This problem has been popping up lately and leaves one without the option to save anyway 

I is always when a marriage end date are added to the profile 

Error: Invalid data. The following must be corrected:

A marriage date (Kleynhans-117 married ) cannot be interpreted. Please use YYYY-MM-DD, DD Mon YYYY, or Month DD, YYYY. If you are saving without changes consider an explanation in the text. [more info]

 

Could someone please look at it 

Thanks in advance 

Comments

What is your format? Copy and paste the data here, so we can see how the format is wrong, that you are trying to enter.

It will never save an invalid format in any data field.

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I've only noticed it when there is a marriage end date but no marriage date, which is the case in point. The solution is simple, remove the marriage end date or add an estimated beginning date.

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Yes this is strange.

Profiles that have marriages with an end date but no beginning date can't be edited until a beginning date has been added for the marriage.

So if you do a lot of editing to a profile and go to save the edits, you get the warning (even though the end date was already there before this edit) of which Ronel is speaking.

So the fix is to copy the new information to your mouse (clipboard), then delete the end date.  Then you can paste the information back on the profile.  But now you have to dig up the end date again and determine an estimation for the beginning date and add that to the profile.  

It's really makes a great deal of work.  I wish this was like it was, an end date is sure but the beginning date is blank.  I don't understand the need to change that.

Maybe better is where an end date for marriage is on a profile, upon clicking 'edit' a red banner should appear saying "You can do absolutely nothing with this profile until an estimation for the marriage date is added".  Because that's the new reality.

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It seems to me when I've run into it that I just clicked on edit marriage information (which opens a new tab), fixed the error, then just went back to the original tab and clicked save again, and I was all set, no more warning, and I didn't get an edit conflict.

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Sounds like a way to work with it.  Thanks.  This should mean that adding a marriage end date should no longer be possible without a marriage date.  I don't remember seeing this announced but it seems like the way it is now.  Cheers.

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If marriage ended in death of one of the partners, and you have the date of death, what is the value of the “marriage end date”? If the marriage ended in divorce or annulment, marriage end date gives useful information, otherwise no value added. I would suggest deleting it.

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It comes in handy when developing profiles of persons who had multiple marriages to others that also had multiple marriages.

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Bummer.

I do not like to delete others peoples work (entries) nor do I like to guess any dates.

I don't remember seeing any notifications either.   But we get what we get and we don't get upset hey :-D 

At least on some profiles we have a baptismal date for a child and  one  could therefore make an educated guess ..... presumed that all children are listed

This is going to create new error problems when other children  who are not listed and were born before the expected date are added :-0 

Thanks all for the explanations and suggestions. 

It is much appreciated. 

Have a wonderful Monday filled with joy.  

Answer 1

if you entered a marriage date of "after 18 Apr 1883" it would not be incorrect, whereas if you put before the birth date of the first child, there is a chance it might be incorrect. I use these "before" and "after" dates where there is no source and explain it in the bio, because at least it provides a ballpark figure and the marriages would also then show in proper chronological order at the top of the profile.

Answer 2

This has come up recently elsewhere, too. I'll make sure it's on our to-do list.

Comments

Thank you very much Abby

Have a awesome day

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Just came across one of these today; a profile that could not be edited because there was a marriage end date but no wedding date. I was just going to put a parish category on a profile managed by somebody else.

In this case it looked like the end date was a divorce date (this is the information you get for divorced people in the database (on CD-ROM) of people who died in Sweden 1901-2013), - you get divorce date but no marriage date.

I got the "famous" red warning without "save anyway" button.
So I moved the marriage end date to the bio, as a workaround. Saved my edit - and then put the marriage end date back in the marriage info field. THIS I was able to save without problem.