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Ah, which is a much better solution and delivers a consistent result across all source template types, where there is a field in the template defined as a date "~DT-" and called "Date". I have just discovered that %SOUR._FIELD[3]% appears to be relative to those fields which contain data in the sour...

So the answer to my problem was to use %SOUR._FIELD[3]%. Many thanks Helen.

I have a customer source template for census with 7 fields, field-3 is Date of data type "Date". I capture this information for each source record, and would like to add this field as a column in the source record window. I have tried all the permutations that I can think of with no success. Can any...

Hi Mike, that worked perfectly, many thanks for your help and explanation of the 'magic' pattern!

Hi Mike, I have installed your search and replace 3.7 plugin, and I can now see what I think what you are suggesting which could be a great solution. Using the plugin I can select the 2 specific fact types: Census & 1939 , enable Show white space to see the tab, and then I can use the basic filter t...

Hi Mike, All of my census & 1939 records are formatted as per the example above, some with fewer and others with more comma separated field such as USA census records, I have over 1,500 records of these types of data in my notes field and am happy to continue with this format. The census & 1939 reco...

I would like to add a single TAB character to the start of every Note line for two very specific fact types to help me improve the formatting and clarity of this information on various narrative reports, as I understand that there are no other formatting options available such as italics. I had thes...

I have implemented {note} in most of my fact types (approx 60), and the witness roles as well, so I have to change over 150 sentences manually. This new feature/bug introduced an issue for me in the following way, which I just noticed this afternoon: {individual} was registered for birth {date} {pla...

I first switched from {note} to {%FACT.NOTE%} as {note} appeared to automatically insert an <br> before the actual note which was breaking the sentence after the principals.first.name. I understand now that {note} does retain the formatting correctly, which is a better option in my scenario than fac...

Hi All, I appear to have an issued with fact notes being truncated in the Individual Narrative report. They appear to be truncated at the 510th character position. They also appear truncated in the sentence window of the Properties fact tab at the same position. I have tried to modify the sentence s...

Thanks Mike. I have now fully understand the need to use Data References inside functions. I'll investigate the custom fact fields to mitigate my problem. Many thanks again. Phillip

Hi Mike, You are correct, the first suggestion is the better one and works perfectly, I have now adopted that as my version. One last question if I may, on similar lines with =TextIf, my last one for a few weeks before I go on holiday. I have some census records (Fact Type Event, Record Type Individ...

Thank you everyone for the responses. Mike's suggestion of using: {=TextIf( Exists(%CUR_PRIN2%), %CUR_PRIN2%, %FACT.NOTE2% )} works for what I need, the bit I was missing was the %FACT.NOTE2%, as I was trying to use just {note} and that caused the condition to fail. I am having to learn a lot since ...

Hi all, I am struggling with a text expression for the sentence of Marriage facts. I have recorded some marriages with only one principal, sometime the Groom or Bride depending on the information that I have. In these cases I am very uncertain of the other persons name and record the possibilities i...

I have checked the "missing citation media" log file and cannot find any reason why these are being reported. I do not appear to have any media attached to the facts in TMG and when I access the record in FH I cannot see any reference to media either. Could you explain further what problem the plug ...

Hi Mark, Apologies for the delay in my response as I have been away for a few days. I ran the Audit RM Direct Import plugin and it reported the following: 1. Missing Citation Media: 5 records, which I now need to work out how to fix. 2. Clear Invalid... Sort Dates: 8 invalid & 23 superfluous. Some d...

Hi Mark, That is excellent, just what I wanted and worked first time. Many Thanks. It did not convert a hand full of records as they did not meet your validation criteria as my data was incorrect. I'll fix them manually. Your code is fascinating to read, beautifully laid out and documented. Many tha...

Hi Mark,

I appreciate your assistance and it would be fantastic to review your code. I'd appreciate that a lot.

Regards

Phillip

Hi all, Lots of good questions and comments that I had not appreciated, especially that there is only 1 Marriage Registration record in my database per marriage, which is attached to the Principal (i.e. Groom). The bride is referenced as a witness (yes I know the groom is also a witness but that is ...

Hi Mark, If I can find a marriage-registration record for a couple I will always record this as a separate fact to the marriage. This allows me to record both pieces of information and use the marriage registration data to validate the information that I have found or have been given for the marriag...

Hi everyone, I have recently migrated from TMG and after spending many weeks of tidying up my data in FH have just identified a problem with some information that I record for Marriage Registration. This was configured in TMG as a Marriage tag but has converted into FH as a fact with an individual r...