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by SophieP
12 May 2022 12:36
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Expression guidance
Replies: 11
Views: 1760

Re: Expression guidance

Sophie, that expression is not syntactically valid, so I presume FH rejected it as invalid. There are examples of that form of expression in Understanding Expressions . @tatewise, thank you so much for your guidance, I knew it was something silly I was doing and I might have been a long time workin...
by SophieP
11 May 2022 20:55
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Expression guidance
Replies: 11
Views: 1760

Re: Expression guidance

Cobblers, Boot and Shoe maker were occupations which ran back through history in one line of my family and my little learning experiment was to try and visualize them on diagrams with a little graphic. The following expression appears to work in it's most simplistic form. =ContainsText(%INDI.OCCU[1...
by SophieP
18 Mar 2022 18:11
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Thank you for accepting me to your group
Replies: 4
Views: 669

Re: Thank you for accepting me to your group

Thank you both, I am like willy wonka in the chocolate factory at present, I am following lots of links and have found the knowledgebase, it's like finding a new library. I come from Rootsmagic, I have no idea what is happening there but I do know they scrapped a wealth of online forum knowledge in ...
by SophieP
18 Mar 2022 17:34
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Thank you for accepting me to your group
Replies: 4
Views: 669

Thank you for accepting me to your group

I have been researching family history and geography for a long time, it looks like Family historian might help me move a rather large database forward where my previous software has really let me down. Thank you for accepting me, after some skimming I find a wealth of knowledge and guidance in thes...