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Thanks Mike, I will look into using a DEA next.
Profile updated as requested.

Please forgive me if I have missed something, but I would like to be able to autogenenerate the text in the Short Title field for a source from a Source Template. The Short Title field does not appear in the Source Template Definitions window, or the Source Record window. Is there a reason for this,...

Thank you very much Mike. Worked first time!

Thanks Mike, I will give that a try.

Please, what is the way to convert a string holding a date and write it to a Date item? I have tried various combinations of fhSetValueAsText and fhSetValueAsDate to no avail. I have several hundred media items imported from another program. I am trying to extract a date entry from the item’s Note f...

Thanks Jane.

A new version of this plugin is attached.
Flags are attached to individuals to highlight the need for closer attention.
A progress bar and end of import status message have been added.
Details are in the source.

mikej

Mike Thank you very much for the info. That worked perfectly! I can see where I was going wrong now. I was trying to create the "NoParent" flag without first creating the "_FLGS" tag. Re your question as to why. I wish to set the flag as part of my Census csv import plugin. Setting a flag when a com...

I am trying to attach a NoParents Flag to an individual but am having some difficulty. I can create the Flag by using: strNewFlag='NoParents' strTag, strError = fhGetFlagTag(strNewFlag,true) but I cannot work out how to assign the flag to an individual. I have searched this Forum and the Help file w...

I wrote the plugin within Family Historian.
I wasn't sure where FH saved my plugin so I pasted the text into Notepad and saved from there.
It was at this point I had confusion over the extension and missed out the "fh_" bit. My error.

That was it.
Thanks Jane.

This plugin is based on Jane Taubman's “Build Tree From CSV File” plugin. It takes a formatted and sorted CSV file containing raw census household data and builds a tree consisting of parent(s) and children in each household. All other persons in the household are linked to the head as an Associated...