In this Blog, You will learn about How to Solve the Problem of “Alert Errors” in your Data. Are you find some little triangle symbol right next to a person’s name in the list of your RootsMagic? You’re wondering what is this symbol? Does the symbol look like this image below? Yes. Then we will give you the solution as to why this symbol occurs
The above symbol means that you may have entered some incorrect information. There may be some problem suspect by RootsMagic for that particular person. You should know this the symbol is called ‘Problem Alert’. And this will be seen whenever RootsMagic suspects that there might be a problem needing to be looked at.
To be able to check why the triangle symbol is there. You would have to give a click on it and then you will see the list of issues.
Alert Errors in RootsMagic
There could be any issues one or many. Some issues could be limited only to one person such as dying even before being born. Other issues could be like you would have to look at more than one person to figure out what the actual problem is.
There is a lot more that you could do with the highlighted problem such as ‘Edit the person’, which will help the individual problem types. The ‘Edit Family’ opens the listing page of all the family members for the issues that may be for one person a family member.
It could also be that the problem may not be a problem. There is a button ‘Not a problem’ that tells your RootsMagic that the highlighted item is not a problem and does not require to be removed. If in case you feel that you don’t have time to figure out the problem then you have an option to click on the ‘Add to-do list’ and get the problem put in this list so that you could work later.
But if you do not want the ‘Problem Alert’ appearing then go to ‘Tools and then file options’ which you will get from the main menu. Here you can if you want to use the Alert option or not.
Now as you give a click on the ‘Problem Options’ you will see the following screen displayed here you can select the problem that RootsMagic will search for, to add on you can also fiddle with the series of principles that RootsMagic uses for a couple of problems.
