Family Historian User Group

Yes, it is not advisable to have various Projects in different locations. Why not? I have a live FH Projects folder for actual research projects, and a second FH Projects (Development) folder for test projects. It works very well, and I can easily flip between live and test projects using the Recen...

Yes, it is not advisable to have various Projects in different locations.
Ideally, all Projects should be in the File > Project Window... Location: path.

I presume in your examples that the Location: is just a drive letter.

What is it about paths under Parallels that are different from standard Windows paths? Some examples of paths you think are too long might help explain what needs changing. To ensure FH includes Media in backups requires the files to be within the Project folder. If the Project is called MyFamily th...

It is probably not the environment, just that FH hangs with the Not Responding message.

Use Unsourced Individuals link to download plugin V0.3 which adds a progress bar to prevent FH hanging.

An issue was discussed recently with regard to AS that has a SYSTEM.DATE option which is based on the PC locale format and may get mishandled when entered into FH source templates where the Short Date Format is different.
See Casting template data as a particular data-type (22911).

John, it is a bit more efficient to use the following to get day, month & year as integers. local dpDatePt = dtDate:GetDatePt1() local Day = dpDatePt:GetDay() local Month = dpDatePt:GetMonth() local Year = dpDatePt:GetYear() Once you have added the Date to a Fact it may be a good idea to use Get...

Mark, it was HKCU\SOFTWARE\Calico Pie\Family Historian\2.0\Preferences\ that I thought might need adjusting to match the PC locale date format read from the Windows Registry. Your suggestion of reminding the user of the expected short date format is probably better. John, yes, it is odd that SetValu...

Hmm does this plugin not like large files? I've just shy of 69k in the file and it basically just hangs with not responding ... or am I being impatient? ;) It was written as a one-off temporary plugin for a couple of FHUG users, so it is very unsophisticated. Thus it has no mechanism to keep Window...

Yes, it is a little inconsistent and could be reported to CP if you felt strongly.
However, there is a slightly awkward workaround using the ToUpper(...) function with LeftText(...) and MidText(...):
=ToUpper( LeftText( Relationship( Fileroot() ), 1 ) )=MidText( Relationship( Fileroot() ), 2 )

Mark, that is NOT entirely what Privacy and Security Standards for Published Plugins says! That would allow the PC locale settings to be read from the Windows Registry, and then the Preferences Date setting to be changed (temporarily) in the Windows Registry as it would be "essential to the sta...

Note that the EstimatedBirthDate function returns a Date Point value and not a Date value.
local dtpMin = fhCallBuiltInFunction( "EstimatedBirthDate", ptrIndi, "EARLIEST", 5 )

So you must use dtDate:GetDatePt1() to be able to compare with dtpMin.

To manipulate FH pointers you use fhNewItemPtr() and the Item Pointer object Methods. To manipulate FH dates you use fhNewDate() and the Date object Methods. You may also need to use fhNewDatePt() and the Date Point object Methods. Those are all covered by the How to Write Plugins help Function Inde...

As a plugin author, using iuplua, it is necessary to consider a wide (and narrow) variety of monitor screen sizes.
So you may need to split the dialogue into several tabs.

I click on the large blue DOWNLOAD (1.63KB) button that says underneath:
'The download button will start your download and show a message from our advertisers in a new window.'
It seems that the advertisers new window is infected:

Just for my edification is there a way to do a conditional statement like I had originally tried? No, not to govern the <br> and <para> codes because (as I said) the =TextIf(...) function requires text parameters and the formatting codes <br> and <para> are NOT text. Your {=TextIf(...)} conditional...

OK, I understand better now what you were trying to achieve. The cause of your original problem is the Box Types and Conditions settings. They determine which spouse the married info goes on. In your screenshot, the Box Types column summarises those settings. They must be the same for both the Marri...

Roberto, we are no longer allowed to attach plugins to posts for security reasons and must use file share links. The plugin was never popular enough to warrant publishing in the Plugin Store. Use the Unsourced Individuals link to download the plugin V0.2. ( BTW: My Avast anti-virus reported that Bil...

=TextIf(...) and similar functions only accept text for the 2nd & 3rd parameters. '<para>' and '<br>' are plain text strings, so are nothing to do with the formatting codes <para > and <br> . I think you want to insert an unconditional <br> newline and then a conditional <br> newline if there i...

Matthew, you are mistaken about why there are multiple Citations after merging the Source records. Merging the Source records does NOT ever merge the Citations that link to the Source records. So even if all the Citation-specific Notes are empty there will still be multiple Citations after the Merge...

Welcome to the FHUG. I have tried using your Text Scheme Templates but cannot reproduce the symptoms you describe. Either the date & place are displayed or neither are displayed. I cannot get just the place displayed. Why have you chosen to use both the =FactText(...) function and in %CUR~FAMS>M...

Yes each source only has exactly one citation note. So are you saying that each Source record only has one Citation? i.e. When you look at the Source record in the Records Window Sources tab its Links column value is 1 . If that is true then there is only one instance of a Citation-specific Note to...

The only way to achieve that is with a custom plugin that moves each Citation-specific Note to its linked Source record Note. It will have to avoid duplicating the same URL in the Source record Note and also allow for multiple different URL. Alternatively, the Source records could be redefined to in...

The complication is that Name Only Fact Witnesses use the _SHAN tag instead of _SHAR . They are two different types of field: _SHAN is a text field holding the Name Only text. _SHAR holds a pointer to an Individual record. So your conditional expression will have to get even longer to cater for all ...

It is not clear what you are asking for. The Relationship Pool numbers are allocated entirely automatically by FH and always have. You have no control over how they are generated. Typically, the largest group of related Individuals form Relationship Pool number 1. But after that, there seems no obvi...

The Lookup Missing Census Facts plugin Version 4.9 Date 10 Apr 2024 is now in the Plugin Store.

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