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Thanks for the AS heads up. Mike, you may remember a long exchange we had some while ago on expressions. In FHv6 I have adopted a naming convention for the Source Records/Type field for census sources that has the format "Census "{Country} {Census year}: e.g. Census UK 1851. I do use AS and it would...

Many thanks Lorna. Right on the nail.

I have just created a new project in FH version 6, and created a number of census citations. I now find that my diagram expressions (working well in other projects) are not working because my census sources do not have a Source Type (of e.g. Census UK 1941). I cannot find any option to create the So...

Now everything is fine. I deleted all the old expressions and did them again. I think your overide idea was correct. I need the complexity because very often in the course of research many Citations are entered before the final 'Killer', primary evidence, Citation is found; and then in the excitemen...

I confirm that I am testing the Source Type (containing Baptism Index) , and that I have defined Icons for this (and all other) Expression Conditions. On May 9th all appeared to be working well but this was because there was only one Baptism Source Citation on each record selected for the Chart. Whe...

Thanks for all your help. The formula is now accepted as follows: =IsTrue(ContainsText(%INDI.BAPM.SOUR>_TYPE%,"Baptism Index",STD) or ContainsText(%INDI.BAPM.SOUR[2]>_TYPE%,"Baptism Index",STD) or ContainsText(%INDI.BAPM.SOUR[3]>_TYPE%,"Baptism Index",STD)) However, it still does not give the requir...

I have tried the following and this too is not acceptable:

=IsTrue(ContainsText(%INDI.BAPM.SOUR>_TYPE%,"Baptism Index",STD) or (ContainsText(%INDI.BAPM.SOUR[2]>_TYPE%,"Baptism Index",STD) or (ContainsText(%INDI.BAPM.SOUR[3]>_TYPE%,"Baptism Index",STD))

I have read the article and I have tried to enter the following Expression:

=ContainsText(%INDI.BAPM.SOUR[1]>_TYPE%,"Baptism Index",STD) OR ContainsText(%INDI.BAPM.SOUR[2]>_TYPE%,"Baptism Index",STD)

FH6 tells me the expression is not valid.

I have just realised that an Expression will only produce a flag on a diagram IF and ONLY IF the citation referenced is the first citation in the Source Pane. Is there any way around this?

No - nothing saved at all, so I guess I have to re-apply everything !! At least I will get more practice.

This morning I loaded up a chart that I had brought across from V5. Now all my new expressions that I created in V6 have disappeared. I note too that all the old flags which I had deleted in V6 have reappeared. That is a lot of work to redo and I am not a happy bunny. What has happened and how do I ...

Mike, Re your post of 7 May. My silly oversight! All is now implemeted and working well. Again, a brilliant effort and I hope others benefit.

Mike, I have started to implement Expressions and replace my Flags. I have come across an extra requirement that using Expression imposes. I use different icons to visualise on diagrams Indexes, Ordered Certs, and Received Certs, so in addition to changing the Source Type (from say Birth Index to Or...

Mike,

These plugins work well for me. Thanks for your patient assistance.

Thanks for all your help Mike. Everything sorted now. I need to to get grips with this lua stuff. I'll send you the final plugin files tomorrow.

I have inserted the if and the end lines and changed the middle one. I have also changed what will be put in the Type field to make it clear what was changed. No changes are made.

Oops. OK corrected the extra [Census 1881] to [Census 1891] For the census entries only, I was planning to make two versions of the plugin: one with the check for empty if fhGetValueAsText(ptrType)=="" then , and a second with if fhGetValueAsText(ptrType)=="Census" then In reponse to your latest: No...

Sorry, "Did not work" = nothing was updated in Type

Thanks Mike, great stuff. I edited it so that I am just changing Marriage Certificates and that worked fine. Then I tried an edit for Census, but many of these records already have the Type as census, so I also edited the line where it "Check Type is empty" This edit did not work. I attach my mod fo...

Sources for Birth, Marriage and Death can be selected from the Source name. For example all birth certificates are titled according to the format "Birth Certificate of Smith John Albert 1857". Marriage certificates are titled according to the format "Marriage Certificate of Smith John Albert and Mar...

I have some 1,200 Sources on which I need to complete the Type box. Is there a way to update these in a batch process.

Thanks for the advice and I will start to implement that today.

Thanks David. Every day a liitle bit more !!!

Thanks for that very comprehensive explanation. One of my uses for named lists is to control the aquisition of certificates. For each of the three main types of certificate I have lists for individuals where I have found an Index, where I have ordered a certificate and where I have physically receiv...

Mike I did read that but I did not interpret it as meaning that an existing function would no longer work. As a matter of interest, if I drop Diagram Flags in favour of Expressions, how would I proceed, in the future, in updating my named lists of birth, marriage and death certificates for which I c...