Family Migration needs tweaking

[bseeger]

The family migration will not run successfully unless there is a value in the not-required Date field. If you leave it out of the spreadsheet you will get a vague error about the field being NULL when it should be a string.

It's most likely because the function called on the field, doesn't handle an empty field very well.

field_date:
    -
      plugin: explode
      source: date
      delimiter: '||'

The next field is field_authority_link, which should fail the same way except that strict is set to false. In the above, it defaults to true, which means the system makes sure that what it passes into explode is strictly a string. In the case where it's unset, it's a NULL and the system throws an error.

@mjanowiecki can work around this for now by including a date column with an empty string in the field. We should probably change the migration though. There's only one family in the pilot set, so it's not a huge need right now to change this.

[htpvu]

The fix would be a configuration fix in a yaml file. Check with @bseeger