#2793 Hide Tag does not work for Record File Number

[Paul Seesink]

I did: Manage GEDCOM > EDIT PRIVACY file > Global Fact Privacy Settings [= Hide Tag? ] > Record File Number and choosed both for "Show Fact" and "Show Fact Details" the "Hide even from admin users".
Still I see the Record File Number in each fact box. E.g. I see for a person in each of the fact boxes for Birth, Marriage and Death 3 different Record File Numbers displayed (in bold as last line in each box).
I checked afterwards once more if the privacy setting I made was saved well; it was.

[Paul Seesink]

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[Greg Roach]

The gedcom format has data at different levels.

Level 0 = records (e.g people)
Level 1 = facts/events about the records (e.g. birth/marriage/death)
Level 2 = attributes about the facts (e.g. date/place).

You have added these RFN numbers at level 2, whereas they are expected at level 1.

PGV's privacy rules only work at levels 0 and 1. It was not designed to filter attributes like this.

[Greg Roach]

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[Julio Sánchez Fernández]

Just to stress this point, this usage of REFN is against the GEDCOM format specification. It can only be subordinate to FAM, INDI, OBJE, NOTE, REPO or SOUR.

Possibly the result wanted can be achieved by creating a source and registering all these record numbers as source references citing the record number. The source can then be hidden.

Notice that RFN in its right place is not shown in person facts since it is the list of global nonfacts.