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. . .In terms of the first issue, where a book title lost the italics, I had used RM7's "Free-form" template. So the italicized title is in a "master" field that contains the entire "master" part of the source, ie. author, title (place: publisher, date). So there was not a "title" field; all the da...

Although I am a fan of using templates, converting a large number of freeform or generic sources can be a veritable nightmare, especially if you have a large number of existing ones. I first attempted to use templates about 14 or 15 years ago and that was a mess. I then created my own approach about...

Thanks, Mike, It worked!

Hi All, I’m trying to create an expression to generate an icon for military service in WWI and/or WWII; a separate icon should appear for each war. I’m running into a problem in that I currently have two expressions: =IsTrue(ContainsText(%INDI._ATTR-MILITARY_SERVICE%,"ww1",STD) or ContainsText(%INDI...

Thanks everyone for your help and suggestions. I spent a lot of time battling with this issue yesterday and today. As I was walking through your suggestions, I continued to get strange things happening when trying to print from other applications (and each one behaved differently). In fact, I was tr...

Hi All, I'm having a very strange problem that I can't resolve. Specifically, I'm trying to create a few reports and I can't get them to print properly. The first problem occurs when I try to print reports - the paper size is absolutely incorrect and, upon further exploration, I have found that the ...

Dick, I think we’re actually coming from the same place. My own research concerns similar paths - I’m concerned with direct line ancestry and allied descendant lines; however, unless I have a very specific reason for doing so, I don’t take a deep dive into identifying every descendant of every furth...

Thank you for your tips. From my point of view the whole idea is to keep records on the computer though, and not to maintain paperwork unless absolutely necessary. Virtually all paperwork I acquire is scanned, stored on computer and accessed from there. The only paperwork I keep are those certifica...

Another suggestion you should consider (if you haven’t already done so), is to organize your documentation first. An approach that’s worked well for me, is to develop a file system (I use binders with sheet protectors) and organize materials by surname). I then assign a “catalog number” that consist...

Thanks, Jeff - I get it now. Overall I can see now that at least for the "non-traditional" sources, your template won't work as is, though I could edit it to do so, which, of course, defeats the "simple" aspect! OTOH, for the traditional sources it's perfect - I used it just the other day to cite p...

To me, your model is a lumper approach. Hi Mike, That’s interesting. I suspect that the approach may lean towards the lumper approach. When I created the model, I really tried to start from scratch - as much as was feasibly possibly. My goal was to identify the most salient components needed for ot...

Jeff, maybe I'm missing something, but why not name your personal private collection Repository record such as: Private collection of Jeffry La Marca The Family Historian Sample Project has a similar Repository called Collection of Nigel Munro Then there is no need for a Repository (Unique Item) wh...

Hi Teresa and Mike, Mike's explanation is a good one (and far more parsimonious that mine). His description of the relationship between the " Repository (Unique Item) " and "the " Repository " fields is correct. He's also correct about the issues pertaining to the number of fields - you won't find a...

(Continued from previous post.) Hopefully, that makes sense but now let’s look at the new FH7 “traditional” template for the exact same source. FH7_004.jpg The citation that results is: Unknown (after 26 July 1918). "Obituary," Unknown. Unknown Publisher || Elias S. Reigle. Hancock County, Ohio, Uni...

Hi Jeff, I just read through the Features page and am still not clear on your difference between the Repository (unique item) and Primary Repository. Currently I include both the physical repository where records are held and the online repository where they appear, if this is the case, such as Anc...

I'm so happy to see this! Your philosophy of Simple Citations makes so much sense to me. Now I can get to work FINALLY cleaning up all of my sources that were at one time lovely in TMG and have been a complete mess throughout my time with RootsMagic. Thank you, thank you, thank you! You're very wel...

I'm very excited to announce that after many months of tinkering and testing, templates that follow the Simple Citations model for documenting your sources have just been released! If you are not familiar with Simple Citations , I created it a long time ago to use with my own data. The model uses ju...

Thanks, Mike! Without your help, I don't think I would have figured out the correct Text(...) function. Also, I now only feel half stupid, instead of totally stupid :lol: as I was able to get the full expression to work - I also FINALLY figured out problems I was having with nesting. Again, thank you!

I've realised overnight that the expression can be simplified a little using just TextIf(...) functions . . . Thank you very much! Your simplified code works like a charm! As I was testing the output returns, I came across a situation that was ambiguous - when more than one person has exactly the s...

It is getting late here and a few typos have crept in. This will cope with the Role of Common_Ancestor in any of the first three Fact Witnesses: No problem, it seems to be working very well! I've just spent the past couple of hours testing it with more fake data (I added a lot more witnesses). It's...

Sorry, my mistake :oops: Update: Oops, I think I see what going on (described below), the person who is the common ancestor MUST be in the top position on the list of roles. Then, everything works! You can ignore most of what I wrote below (except, you are a programming wizard)! No problem! I was w...

Hi Again Mike, I've been playing with your last suggestion since yesterday (I've spent hours on it) and think I must be suffering from analysis paralysis - I simply can't seem to wrap my head around your suggestion, especially the part that " the ItemIf(...) function has to be nested ." I believe I ...

Hi Mike, Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, as I've worked through your suggestion and also looked at all of the help files (especially those you mentioned) it appears as if I wasn't clear. Your statement that Yes, the < chevron > conditional template only allows a true condition and does not suppo...

I currently struggling with an expression and can’t figure out how to deal with a situation. In addition to the help files, I also try to find other existing facts in FH7 to use as examples but can't seem to find one for this situation. (It would be VERY NICE if examples were given in the help files...

Thank you very much! Your suggestion solved my problem.