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Jane,

apologies for the delay, I was away from the computer for some time.

The box 'Exclude unconnected records' does the trick. I must have overlooked that until now.

Thank you for looking!

Sabine

Hi, I just noticed that the gedcom export always includes all sources, not just those connected to the individuals (and families) chosen for gedcom export. Of course it is possible to exclude all sources, but I cannot find any way to include only those for the individuals and families in question. A...

@Tatewise: You are right; I hadn't thought of that. SURNAME_FIRST does the trick, too. And I re-tried Jane's date and place version for the multiple marriages, and it works, too; the line now looks like this (for the second marriage): =combinetext('with ',%INDI.~SPOU[2]>NAME[1]%,' ','') =combinetext...

Sorry, I was out of town for most of the week. Thank you for the suggestions! I think I re-entered the code from memory. LifeDates2 doesn't work in this context, but LifeDates does. For the second marriage, the code now looks like this: =combinetext('with ',%INDI.~SPOU[2]>NAME[1]%,' ','') =combinete...

... and the printout then should look like this:

with Anna Maria HEIN (1718-1802), 3 Feb 1739, Eppelborn, D-66571

Sabine

For the second marriage, for example, the line looks like this:

with %INDI.~SPOU[2]>NAME[1]% (=LifeDates2(%INDI.~SPOU[2]>%)), %INDI.FAMS[2]>MARR[1].DATE:COMPACT%, %INDI.FAMS[2]>MARR[1].PLAC%

It worked until V4, without any ifexists functions.

Sabine

Hi, having happily re-upgraded to V5 once again, I find that there is another detail that does not work as before. I used to define specific lines for up to four or five marriages in the 'Family Member Main Item' section, and label them as 'Show if not empty'. Now there does not seem to be any more ...

Thanks to you all! I just ran into the same problem, and switching the age on again worked.

Sabine

V4.1.3 looks like this (much of the report is tailor-made, but it should become clear what I meant).

I sent an e-mail to Calico Pie yesterday.

Sabine

Hi Tatewise, thank you! Well, yes, that would be a workaround, which however does not account for the 90k persons in the database which I do not intend to change just because of a bug; also, this would disable the incremental search possibilities for the place names ... Well ... looks like downgradi...

It looks like this got lost with the upgrade. I just deinstalled V5 on my other computer, and begann installing the oldest version I had (2.1.8). The Family Group Sheet report shows what I had till V4, for example: Occupation 1680 carpenter; Placename Unless anyone knows a workaround, this means tha...

Hi, it looks like I missed saving my reports when upgrading to V5. I reconstructed most of my features, with one exception: In the case of some attributes, like occupation, the Family Group Sheet shows the date and the occupation itself (like, carpenter), but NOT the place. Same holds true for a sel...

Uh, well ... I can use the 'medium' place format in the queries, which would hide the Lat/Long data. But I wouldn't want the Lat/Long data in the FamilyGroupSheet, for example, and I don't see how to use the medium place format there.

Sabine

Hi, I would like to find a possibility to create and update a map with, for example, all places that show events with a certain surname. I store my places in the form of 'Town, Countrycode-Zipcode', for example, 'Wildeshausen, D-27793'. I know that is non-standard, but it works best for me, especial...

Hi Jane, as usual, you've got it. Thank you! The lines now are like this: (for the surname) =TextIf(%INDI.SEX% = 'Male',%INDI.FAMS>WIFE>NAME:SURNAME%,%INDI.FAMS>HUSB>NAME:SURNAME%) (for the given names) =TextIf(%INDI.SEX% = 'Male',%INDI.FAMS>WIFE>NAME:GIVEN_ALL%,%INDI.FAMS>HUSB>NAME:GIVEN_ALL%) (for...

Hi, I just came across this function in the manual: =ItemIf(%INDI.SEX% = 'Male',%INDI.FAMS>WIFE%,%INDI.FAMS>HUSB%) Which works pretty fine, but then I thought I'd prefer to have the surname first, and then the given name, and tried to change it to this (in two query columns): =ItemIf(%INDI.SEX% = 'M...

Peter,

well, that's not too elegant a solution, but for the moment it does what I need. Thanks - I hadn't thought of that!

Sabine

Hi,

it's me again with another of these special questions ... how do I get the Family Group Sheet to also print the phone number, if it is entered as subfield of the Residence tag?

TIA
Sabine

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Hi Jane,

uh. I'd have to think about that. Thank you for the suggestion.

In the meantime, I just put all the necessary info into note fields and adapted the diagrams to that; redundant and clumsy, but it worked.

Sabine

Hi there, is there a way to get date phrases without the quotation marks in diagrams? Usually I don't use them (for which reason this question hasn't come up before), but now I've been asked to format a diagram in a very specific way. In the forum, I've found at least two messages from the past year...

Beebee,

like this:
=RecordId(%FAM%)

As you can see in the scanned portions, I put it in square brackets and write FRN before that. To get that, the term should be:
[FRN =RecordId(%FAM%)]

It takes some effort to understand functions like =RecordId, but they are absolutely ingenious.

Sabine

Hi Jane, actually I don't think it is in the help, though it might be good to have it there. But getting the old file out of the backup indeed was what I finally did, and the line defining the record header looks like this: %FAM.HUSB>NAME[1]:SURNAME%, %FAM.HUSB>NAME[1]:GIVEN_ALL%n%FAM.WIFE>NAME[1]:S...

The first picture below shows how it is now, the second how I want it - scanned from an older printout I had in my files. The line in the Record Options Format tab, Heading, Record, Edit, in the current version looks like this: %FAM.HUSB[1]>NAME[1]:SURNAME%, %FAM.HUSB[1]>NAME[1]:GIVEN_ALL% [FRN =Rec...

Well ... I ticked the wrong box somewhere during the installation of V4, and now I'm trying to reconstruct my report formats. In the Family Group Sheet, there was a way to show the Record Heading on two lines, for example showing both partners, like this: MILLER, John SMITH, Anne Now how do I get th...