Cleaning up reversal index entries

[Stuart Showalter]

The Kaansa Project printed it's first Kaansa-French Dictionary in February this year.  I had wanted to included a French-Kaansa section, but when I generated the reversal index for the first time, there were so many formatting problems that I left it for another day. 

Today is another day, so let me start with a vexing problem that probably is not a problem at all once I know the deep secrets of FLEx!

Here is a screen shot of the start of my reversal index in FLEx:

 The first 25 entries or so seem to be French entries with no corresponding Kaansa word or term.  How do I even go about finding these errors in my dictionary and correcting them so that they appear associated with Kaansa entries?

For example, the first item listed here is the French term "(action)".  When I search for "(action)" on reversal entries in the normal database window, I get 101 entries with the element "(action)" in it, but no entry with just "(action)" and no other French term or one unassociated with a Kaansa term.  Flex thinks that somewhere there is a Reversal Entry with just the element "(action)" in it, not associated with any Kaansa term.  How do I go about finding this case in order to correct it?

Any help folks could offer is appreciated.

Stuart Showalter

Kaansa Project

SIL Burkina Faso

[Craig Farrow]

Normally, in the Reversal Entry pane on the right, do a right click on
the sense to get a menu to go to the lexical entry.

However, the example in your screen shot shows no attached sense. So you
can safely delete the reversal entry: Use the drop-down beside Form for
the delete option.

Or use Bulk Edit Reversal Entries, Delete tab. Filter for blank senses,
and set the Item to Delete dropdown to "Reversal Entries (Rows)"...

HTH

Craig.

On 23/06/2016 5:04 p.m., Stuart Showalter wrote:
> The Kaansa Project printed it's first Kaansa-French Dictionary in
> February this year. I had wanted to included a French-Kaansa section,
> but when I generated the reversal index for the first time, there were
> so many formatting problems that I left it for another day.
>
> Today is another day, so let me start with a vexing problem that
> probably is not a problem at all once I know the deep secrets of FLEx!
>
> Here is a screen shot of the start of my reversal index in FLEx:
>

> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tY1GVjmQzxg/V2ujaLdRCvI/AAAAAAAAAIA/ROZR_vuEuLMxjoZWnSjwFMaTd9RcN_m9wCLcB/s1600/Reversal%2Bindex%2Bproblems.jpg>

>
> The first 25 entries or so seem to be French entries with no
> corresponding Kaansa word or term. How do I even go about finding
> these errors in my dictionary and correcting them so that they appear
> associated with Kaansa entries?
>
> For example, the first item listed here is the French term "(action)".
> When I search for "(action)" on reversal entries in the normal
> database window, I get 101 entries with the element "(action)" in it,
> but no entry with just "(action)" and no other French term or one
> unassociated with a Kaansa term. Flex thinks that somewhere there is
> a Reversal Entry with just the element "(action)" in it, not
> associated with any Kaansa term. How do I go about finding this case
> in order to correct it?
>
> Any help folks could offer is appreciated.
>
> Stuart Showalter
> Kaansa Project
> SIL Burkina Faso

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[Stuart Showalter]

Thanks.

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