Question Add a FACT

I've recently notice that when trying to add a Fact to either a new record OR existing one, there is a dropdown menu for Type. This shouldn't be such. Happened sometime after upgrade as I never saw in previous version.

> This shouldn't be such.

Why do you think this?

FACT/TYPE and EVEN/TYPE are both standard GEDCOM fields.

e.g.

1 FACT Blue
2 TYPE Eye colour

Looks like the dropdown (and data) comes from this third-party module:
github.com/Jefferson49/MyCustomTags/blob...om_tags/FactType.php

Ah - you have a drop-down list instead of free-text.

Do you have a custom module that does this?

Yes the TYPE should be present but not the dropdown. 

I will turn this module off and see what happens. If it goes away, will post in Customizing forum to see if this is expected behaviour.

[edit] messages crossed

I can confirm that the drop down menus for the shown FACT types are created by the MyCustomTags custom module. Indeed, this is one area where webtrees can be extended very nicely with a custom module. The MyCustomTags module is kind of a feasibility study, which shows how custom types can be defined and handled.

The code on Github contains the custom tag definitions and type definitions, which I use for my own webtrees installations. For other user purposes, the code is probably not suitable and needs to be adjusted. With some programming background, it should not be diffcult to adjust the type definitons. For example, the INDI:FACT:TYPE definitions can be modified in the FactType.php code by adding/removing type definition entries to an array.

If anyone is interested in specific tag and type definitions, I can provide a modifyed/customized version of the MyCustomTags module. Just post a short description as a Github issue .

On mid term, I will think about adding an user interface for user specific type definitions in the module settings.

I would have moved this over to Customizing had there been reason to continue. As it is, I received offline assistance and things are working.

I did try to search "My Topics" but didn't find match for the topic. Because I'm using different install of webtrees, didn't have the custom fix added. Thanks.