Re: [Gramps-users] Citation Date

[Enno B. <enn...@gm...>]

John,
> I have been sloppy in the past and not included a date in every 
> citation.  Now I have thousands of citations which I need to edit 
> manually.
> Where I have a number of citations from a single source with a common 
> single date, e.g. a particular census, is there a way to add that date 
> to all the citations at one go?
Not that I know of, but ... if your citations are empty, i.e. you have 
no notes in them with census texts or things like that, you can use the 
merge citations tool:

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gramps_3.4_Wiki_Manual_-_What%27s_new%3F#Citations_.28formerly_Source_References.29

When you do that, all citations that link to the same source and have 
the same attributes are merged into one, so that you only have one to 
add a date to, per census.

Please make a backup before doing this, and set the check mark so that 
citations with notes are not merged. Also note that once you've done 
this, you can not add notes with census texts for different families, 
because you only have one citation left per census year, so any note 
will affect all families.

regards,

Enno