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Gary, the image title is determined by the source -- if the source doesn't need the name of an individual to identify it, the image doesn't either, e.g. Manorial Court Rolls 1697-1702 England Stalbridge for the source and 18 images named Manorial Court Rolls 1697-1702 England Stalbridge 1 of 18 etc....

Helen; I just want to make sure I understand what you are doing for filenames. Re-organizing a file-system is not something I would consider without hearing from a few people and a bit of analysis. Do you basically have a name of the form, Repository_Collection_Document_Page/Image or similar? How d...

Helen; So; you rely on the FH7 "database" to keep track of those to whom an image pertains? Yes, but I don't need to access them from other programs. If I did, I would probably still use FH to locate them, and then use the green Play button to open the relevant program. (Your requirements may be le...

Mike; "Theoretically"; an true splitter would name each image according to the document and the page in the document, because it could then be used as support for any person. That would also guarantee a unique name for each image. However; one could then never locate an image involving a person bas...

So; to leverage the new feature, it appears that I have to have a filename just based on the image and not the person. I name the file (and the media record) the same as the Source (Short Title for Generic sources, Bibliography entry for Templated ones) -- but I'm a splitter, so it's easier to ensu...

If I have two ancestors in the same set of images, I usually duplicate the images and adjust the the filename appropriately. I know that one should likely keep only one copy of an original, but doing this makes filing conceptually easier. As of FH 7.0.17.1, If you add a picture or other media item ...

Thank you, "lax_gen". I thought about the ID numbers, but wondered how stable they are. If you dont use the tool to renumber records, they're verybstable - FH never reuses an ID within the same record class (and explicitly discourages you from doing renumbering because it can break e.g. some custom...

If those with vested interests in Allow citation fields in bibliography on sources (21318) contribute to fleshing out the Wish List item, we can get it moved to the Wish List for CP to consider.

Thanks for answering my question at the same time as I asked it, Mike

Have noted that it doesn't apply to 5.1, but suspect you're the only author who cares about backwards compatibility.

Done -- do you happen to know when it was introduced -- 5.2 or 5.3?

tatewise wrote: ↑

12 Apr 2023 00:20

See the long discussion in Allow citation fields in bibliography on sources (21318) which I thought had resulted in a Wish List entry but it has not.

Only because we're so far behind on transferring wishes into the Wish List, Mike.

I'm not understanding why a Residence fact isn't appropriate, if you know the witness's residence at the date of the relevant fact. The address/place field displayed when you view the witness role is the address/place of the event not of the principal or the witnesses. So, you usually create a resid...

I notice in the link that Helen posted, the sources are hyperlinked - but is that related to the software she used to upload her tree? If you are referring to the https://www.colevalleygirl.co.uk/tree/g1/p6.htm online report page, then that is produced by the FH Publish > Websites & Family Tree CD/...

Gary_G wrote: ↑

10 Apr 2023 18:27

My real concern with also having citations to indirect sources in the database is that they hamper my ability to clearly see what is firm and what needs work.

I use a system of research notes (tasks) for that.

When the support is not implicit, one needs some sort of analysis to make the case. It is for those cases that I "take it offline" and do a proof argument or similar and then reference that in my database. So you and I work somewhat similarly -- the difference is that I retain all the citations in ...

Helen; I'm rewriting my response, because the site is not consistently posting my answers. As noted; I want to review all the evidence, but don't believe that complex evidentiary discussions should be presented in the narrative report. It can easily created a "can't see the forest for the trees" sc...

Perhaps this is also why I'm hesitant to use "source-driven data-entry". - I can see that practicing it can easily lead to a dearth of citations and is likely to generate several citations to the same fact/event. Some of those may have little evidentiary value. - I've never seen anyone fully addres...

It seems to my pedantic mind that it's a statement of the bl**** obvious that the illegitimate child has a father, so why cite the BC if it adds nothing to that basic biological statement? It adds the information to the father's record that his identity is unknown, and that he had an illegitimate c...

Yes, neither approach is right or wrong. I would maintain that name and fact are not in general independent variables, and you have already linked them with a fact citation. I tend to cite for 'existence' and 'name' before I enter any facts -- or indeed, if I have no facts for that individual. And ...

My instinct is that there is an element of tautology in citing names as well as facts. The only time I would anticipate citing against a name is Alternative Name, where the cited source explicitly links the two names together. I can’t think of any circumstances where I would cite the top level reco...

Once I have completed and tested my basic EE-Style templates as a set, I will likely write documentation for them and see how it can be made available to others. You may not have explored the Downloads section of the KnowledgeBase yet. Source Templates is intended to allow people to contribute thei...

It might be reasonable to add that feature to Text (~TX-) and Enum (~EN-) and URL (~UL-) metafields that essentially hold text strings, but would be unreasonable for the others that are record links or date fields. Although it might make sense to add the feature to all metafield types for consisten...

My bad! They're "AD-" fields.

"tatewise"; I thought I'd mention in this thread that I looked at, Understanding Data References, https://www.family-historian.co.uk/help/fh7/hh_start.htm#understandingdatareferences.html It was helpful, But I note that the section, DATA REFERENCES AND METAFIELDS, has a table of 3-letter type prefi...

In the last few days I've had some email exchanges with John about the sentence renderings I was getting with my FH exports on my GedSite site. He was very helpful, and I was making progress, until he abruptly stopped, and told me to figure it out myself. I guess I asked too many dumb questions, or...