Family Historian User Group

I like the idea of "Best Practices" topics in the knowledge base. It would be a great learning tool. If the topic name started with "Best Practices: " then they would all appear together in the index. I suppose there could also be a master page pointing to the individual topics. Of course, somebody ...

Thanks Mike.

Mike,

I wondered about doing this with a plugin. Since it doesn't look like macros will be available in the near future, I guess I'll add it to my list of things to do.

Is the query file structure documented?

Shosh

Hi All, I've started to play with queries and I'm really liking the possibilities. One thing that I'm discovering is that I often find myself defining a rather hairy expression for a column, which I would like to re-use in another queries. Currently, I'm using copy-paste, but that's less than ideal,...

Mike,

Thank you. That's exactly what I was looking for. Glad to know it was added to FH.

Shosh

Hi, I've looked for this in the help but just can't find it... I'm trying to format the result from LastUpdated (a datepoint) to include the time. I then store this information in my external DB. I tried using: dpLastUpdated = fhCallBuiltInFunction('LastUpdated', pi) LastUpdated = string.format('%d ...

Mike,

Thank you so much for your help.

I will try not to impose too much, but I'm sure I'll have lots more questions as I go along.

Shosh

Mike, Thanks for your reply. I guess I will go the route of accessing my external DB from a plugin. That's not so bad now that I think about it. Regarding AS... I've played with it, and I'm impressed, but I think I'll stick with my program. AS's use, as I see it (and correct me if I'm wrong) is prim...

Hi All, First, the background... After moving from TMG to FH, I'm close to making the decision to changing the method I use to record census data. In TMG, I used one event per census household with witnesses. After reading through the forums here, I've been convinced that it would be better to defin...

Mike,

Thank you!

I tried using GetParagraph, but didn't think to put it in the curly brackets.

Shosh

Hi,

I'm referring to defining a custom template for displaying in the facts list by using the advanced features of the sentence for the fact:
Tools>FactTypes, select fact, edit, advanced, "Use Override Template for Facts tab Listings."

Shosh

David, I didn't realize that GEDCOM doesn't play nice with custom attributes. I was assuming that they behave like custom events. Went back to the GEDCOM spec and, yup, you're right. Sigh. I really try to stick with solutions which will export to "standard" GEDCOM. I guess I can put the individual c...

Hi All, First, a little background... I've recently moved to FH from TMG and I'm in the process of re-thinking how I do certain things. In TMG, I entered one census event for the head of household and attached everybody else as witnesses. I've been looking at the various arguments for and against an...

Hi again, OK. So I figured it out and thought I'd post the solution in case it helps somebody else. Those pesky greater-than signs... I initialized ptrCitation as follows (I'm looping through citations, so I use a variable for the index): local cit = 1 local ptrCitation = fhGetItemPtr(pFact, '~.SOUR...

Hi all, In my plugin, I have the following code: local strCit = fhGetValueAsText(fhGetItemPtr(ptrCitation, '~.AUTH')) local strTitle = fhGetValueAsText(fhGetItemPtr(ptrCitation,'~.TITL')) local strPubl = fhGetValueAsText(fhGetItemPtr(ptrCitation,'~.PUBL')) local strPage = fhGetValueAsText(fhGetItemP...

Thank you

This feels like a really stupid question -- how do I get the fact label (not tag) programatically?

Thanks,

Shoshana