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The difference is mainly in 1) how extensive the macro handling will be and 2) the need to update (sometimes) a lot of sentences. In case of the {place} example) it would need a modification of virtually every sentence, whilst a redefined {place} would work without changing anything. My preference w...

Thanks Mike for reminding me of 547. I've now voted and commented on 498 also. I guess that CP consider it a lot of work to introduce a macro builder into FH and consequently are not eager to have it high on their priority list. That's why I've now also suggested to make it possible to redefine some...

I use, as many others I expect, a certain buildup of the place parts to create my own 'standard' way of showing a place. I use 4 parts: 1) City/Village/Town etc. (optionally followed by County/State/Province etc. between parenthesis e.g. York (North Yorkshire) 2) Location in the city e.g. Broad Road...

Yes, forgot about that. Thanks!

New functions in FH7.

I think that in FH7 the Witness function allows us to test for plural witnesses of a specific role. Which, if I'm right is a great addition.

Something like {=TextIf(Exists(Witness(%FACT%,"heir",2)),"are","is")} could now be used?

Hi Mike,

Thanks, restarting FH did the trick!

I just updated from 7.03 to 7.05 but shouldn't have done it. I use dragging files to the media windows of the source windows a lot, but it doesn't work anymore in 7.0.5.

I have reported it to CP.

Is there a way to go back to 7.0.3?

In the focus window the birth column shows the baptized date if no birth date is available. This is great and I would very much like that feature to be also available in the children's window of the property box and also to be able to sort on these dates as well. As for entry of a baptize date in th...

Hi Mike, I see, so the convention is that any media dropped on an open FH project is added to the media library irrespective of where the cursor is at that moment. Only incase of fields indicated by the blue border, the media is handled specifically for that field. Thanks, it's unbelievable at my ag...

I have the show option source record only (but the other options give the same results) and when I drag my media file upon the Media tab (not the window, but the tab) it says: The media will be added to current project and I can choose a location. When I then push Add the file is added to the media ...

When adding media to a source by dropping it onto the media tab of the Prepared Citation window it adds the media to the media library but not to the source. Instead of going to the media tab and dropping the media there (to add it to the source) it would be nice to just drop it on the tab. Moreover...

I've reported it.

It looks like Automatic Source Citation is not working for alternate names (it did in FH6).

Please confirm so that I can report it as a bug.

Yes, for me it's a bit annoying. My workflow is: - copy the transcribed certificate data from a website - create a templated source - Disable Automatic!!!! - run my DEA-1 to get the copied data neatly to all fields in the source (including a nicely formatted Text to Source) - if available get the sc...

When creating a new source it would be nice to have FH automatically disable Automatic Source Citations. I can't see any reason for not doing this and the (agreed, small, but still...) benefit would be that I don't have to do it myself over and over... again when using the DEA button. I thought it b...

Helen, yes, I know familysearch.org and mainly use it for scans that are not (yet) available in the Dutch repositories. Too bad you have to work with paid websites. Don't know if it's affordable, but it made me realize the luxurious position we in The Netherlands are in (in as far as access to Genea...

but one problem I can see is that most websites supporting e.g. English Welsh Scottish and Irish sources have a vast number of different formats from which you'd need to distill data -- it's a very different environment than for example WieWasWie. Exactly true! And that's the very reason I think, t...

@Helen - I have been thinking about how to come up with the easiest solution possible and maybe, maybe... Suppose I have a plugin (DEA) that is specifically aimed at distilling data from a number of websites and enters the data into the Source's fields and Text to Source. But that's not all, the plu...

Attached the updated version of Change source template for testing. Changes are: - mapping from AD, PL and NM to TX allowed; - when mapping from NM to TX the slashes (/) are removed; - mapping from TX to NM is allowed with standard FH last name conventions (i.e. last part of multipart name is last n...

Adrian, yes changes to TX are not really a problem (must have something to do with the entropy of information :)). For the plugin vice versa is not a problem too (it's like entering the text in the place field in the property window). It's more about would we want that. I've been hesitant about allo...

@Adrian
Maybe allow not only Addresses but Places to change to TX (and vv) too?

Help button, good idea, I'll add it. And yes, I now understand why you specifically used AD as an example (I don't use addresses myself so it's not really top of mind). I'll add that too.

Helen, thanks for testing. Indeed a lot of fields could be mapped to TX but I thought it wise to be restrictive to prevent errors. Also I couldn't think of a situation where one wants to map Places, Addresses or URL's to a text field. The only exception (in my personal experience) is the mapping of ...

Mike, I should have looked at the GEDCOM before. The whole file = NUL. No idea how it's possible, but it explains the problem.

Glad that I now understand what and why (except all the NUL's of course).

Thanks for your help!

Yes, wherever I checked, all empty (also in the statusline at the bottom of the window: 0, 0 etc.) In Windows explorer I see for this project ('XX'): XX.ged is 949 KB latest snapshot: 20210323A.fhss (date modified: 22-3-2021) XX.fh_proj is 1 KB content: [Family Historian] Version=7 LastFW=3 Recent I...