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Two things struck me about your screenshot. The Current Project: Master is not listed in Family Historian Projects. But what was its path as shown in Tools > Preferences > Startup > Default Startup File: The non-default Location: E:\OneDrive\FamilyHistorian Projects has no space between Family &...

... the sort order of Source Records displayed in the records window, defines how they are presented when choosing a new or existing source. Typically that applies to any record type when presented in a select record dialogue but the order can be overridden by sorting on any column in the select re...

There is a keyboard shortcut for the View > Record Links... command (as there is for most commands).
It is ALT + V + L i.e. the underlined letters in the menu command preceded by the ALT key.

The Wish List requests similar quick methods.

... Query or Record Window displays, as the latter are fully dynamic and reflect changes in the underlying data, while the former are largely static. As a result, you could be sorting on obsolete data, which I’m not sure is logical. In my experience Query/Plugin Result Sets do reflect underlying da...

Ah! The links are from an Individual record to a Research Note record. It is not possible to identify those links in the columns of the Research Note tab. To discover such links, you must use the View > Record Links... command or the Where Used Record Links plugin. See the FHUG Knowledge Base Findin...

I suspect what you requested is not possible, but a few more details will help confirm that. How many Individual records are linked to each Research Note? Are the record links inside a rich text table? Is there a keyword/label before the record link? I am thinking that perhaps =GetLabelledText(%_RNO...

I would expect a Wish List item to request that sorting of all multiple row & column lists be fully consistent.
Then all Records Window tabs, Query & Plugin Result Sets, Named Lists, etc, would all behave similarly.
How CP achieve that is their challenge.

Yes Lorna, you may be correct. I'd forgotten about that wrinkle!

That is another difference compared with Query Result Sets which have no such memory.

This is another unfortunate example of inconsistencies in related functions in FH.

The column sort rules for the Records Window and Query Result Sets are not defined anywhere in the Help. Furthermore, they are not consistent with each other. In the Records Window, the rows can be sorted primarily on any column by clicking its header. If that column has identical row values the row...

Hi Steve.
In the FHUG Knowledge Base you will find a wealth of advice and tutorials on FH, AS, and related topics.
For AS see Ancestral Sources which towards the end has a link to Ancestral Sources Videos.

The installation process for FH v7 is different from all earlier versions. There is no licence key. You use an online Account with Calico Pie. In the article Nick refers to, only the Version 7 licence problems section is relevant. In FH v7 on your Windows laptop use Help > About Family Historian... ...

Please clarify exactly what fields you propose should hold those values in Essential Templated Sources. i.e. Are you talking about the Source record Title, or citation Footnote, or specific fields? Please recognise that: The Essentials Civil Registration Index only has one 'lumped' Source record per...

Yes, I am the Search and Replace plugin author.
When you choose Multimedia Linked File fields and Media files you should have got a popup message as shown below that warns about the special features of that option and advises you to check the Help & Advice.

Also, please confirm that Tools > External File Links... and the Media record File links refer to the 1939 Census filenames and NOT the 1939 Register filenames. When you say the plugins show all the 1939 files to be unlinked, does that include both 1939 Census and 1939 Register files? Where are your...

You can experiment with your own customised Source Template as follows. Use Tools > Source Template Definitions... and select the Essentials Civil Registration Certificate. Click the Clone... button to create a custom copy that you can View/Edit... Edit the Footnote Format (and other Formats) to pro...

John is referring to one of the many articles of advice in the FHUG Knowledge Base . Based on the columns you posted yesterday the following CSV illustrates the columns needed by the plugin. It needs REFN cells to identify each person and specify their relationships because names may not be unique. ...

Welcome to the FHUG Richard. A significant part of genealogy data you did not mention is Source Citations that support your family data. i.e. the Birth/Marriage/Death Certificates and Census records that prove the family facts you have recorded. Many users often find it useful to enter all their fam...

Yes, if the separator is a comma, then the TextPart(...) function works similarly to the Section(...) function.

TextPart(...) also has extra features for tidying and arranging the comma-separated parts.

Ok, you are very close. I think the following may be what you want but there are some caveats. =Text( %SOUR.~NM-Principal:SURNAME_FIRST% . ": " . Section( %SOUR%, 1, "," ) . " " . %SOUR.~DT-Date:YEAR% ) %SOUR.~NM-Principal:SURNAME_FIRST% will display the Surname, a comm...

Please confirm whether you would be happy to simply reformat the Source Record Title or not.

To add a Record Id to the final Result Set ... About line 95 add a table variable to hold the Record Id: tblRecord = {} tblRec_Id = {} About line 115 save the Record Id in the table: table.insert(tblRecord,pi:Clone()) table.insert(tblRec_Id,fhGetRecordId(pi)) About line 128 display Record Id in the ...

Yes, {individual} experienced {label} ... is the default Sentence Template for a new custom Event or one without a definition.

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Ok, the following two changes should be sufficient, unless your Surnames use foreign language characters. Near line number 16 add three lines after iup.SetGlobal("CUSTOMQUITMESSAGE","YES") to cope with UTF-8 require("iuplua"); iup.SetGlobal("CUSTOMQUITMESSAGE"...

John, you can edit the plugin yourself to make any necessary changes.
One of us could advise what changes to make once you are familiar with the editing process.

Alternatively, you must wait until Jane notices this thread and updates the plugin in the Plugin Store.