Family Historian User Group

Mike, In his original post, Jamie stated that after failing to print he tried re-installing the Nova printer, which to me says he saw the printer, tried to print to it but it didn't work, so he tried re-installing it. When he talked about Nova Printer being missing, he was talking about a program be...

Another cause of this could be the printer spooler not running. There is a known bug in Windows, where the print spooler does not always start after shutdown or hibernation. Check that Windows printer 'spooler' is running by opening your list of printers in 'Printers & Devices', (opened from control...

Jimlad, I use a diferent method, which is already catered for within FH. (See 3 below) 1. I always use the maiden name for women where known e.g. Ann Shufflebotham. This never changes, no matter how many times she marries/re-marries and I don't need to worry which surname was in use at a particular ...

Check out Tribalpages.com. They have various security options for your on-line tree, so you can bar/allow whomsoever you wish. I have a tree on there, (See below) and my settings mean I allow everyone to see 'non-living' individuals, but I restrict access to 'living' with a password. I do not make u...

Another way of doing it, and possibly the way you half remember, is to use the buttons (Up & Down arrows) on the top tool bar, to right of the binocular icon. With a child highlighted, you can move the child up or down using these arrow keys. The buttons, being so far from the list of children they ...

Mike T, Yes, I realised after I posted that the problem was with Eric's new machine, so shouldn't have had any niggles! :roll: As far as dust goes, I couldn't agree more. My all-in-one kept crashing and freezing due to overheating. I literally had to strip it down, remove the heat sinks and the fans...

Mike, Reasonable suggestion, but I see 2 minor drawbacks to that scenario: 1. The Windows 7 PC must be getting a bit long in the tooth hardware wise, as Windows 7 has been around since 2009. (Using Moore's law, a modern PC will be at least 8-16 times more powerful.) 2. A PC upgraded to Windows 10, i...

Eric, Having just bought a new PC and monitor, I discounted buying a laptop or an all-in-one PC, simply because they generally compromise on components to fit into the case. One component fails and whole laptop/PC is kaput. I looked around and decided three things that I needed/wanted. 1. A 4k monit...

Eric, I think support is pulling the wool over your eyes, and don't know what they are talking about! I have a Windows 10 PC with a 40" 4k monitor, and it works fine!! With the 40" width, I can happily have three reasonable sized windows open at once. Every program I run works happily (FH6.2, Openof...

Silly question, but have you checked for new updates for Laptop or Windows 10?
You may have an out of date component somewhere, which has been updated since your laptop was put together by HP.
May be worth checking.

Eric,

Is the problem restricted to FH?

Eric, I recently moved to a 40 inch high res (4k) monitor, and like you, with Windows 10, got giant sized Icons and windows. The easiest way to correct your fonts,text etc is to right click on the screen, then Display Settings. You'll get the option to re-size text, fonts etc all from one slider. Wh...

Derek, I used FamilyTreeMaker (FTM) before moving to FH, and had similar problems importing my data too, but with help from this forum, got it all imported very successfully, with no loss of data. FH, like TMG DOES support multiple occupations over time, it is just unfortunate that the standard prop...

Derek, In answer to your questions: 1 - not yet, but is in the wishlist as something a lot of us would like to see added. 2 - If you are on a direct ancestor, their child who links back to you is indicated by a different symbol alongside their name (I am not in FH at moment, but if memory serves me,...

Is there a reason why the plugin editor does not recognise the - and + keys on the numeric part of the keyboard? It recognises the / & * keys, but not the - and + ones. This post was written using these keys, and they can be seen by other programs like notepad, but for some reason they are not recog...

Mike,
Not the case at all, it is just a case of being unfamilar with LUA, not recognising what is inside quotes and what is outside. As I already said, doesn't make for easy reading of code.

Reminds me of programming msAccess, with SQL statements, putting variables inside quotes using concatenation just like LUA
Only trouble is, it doesn't makes reading code easy, nor debugging!

Mike,
Once again many thanks.
I do feel the documentation on plugins is somewhat lacking.
for example why the '..' in the expression [census=..stryear..]?
Haven't come across these in the documentation, except for string concatenation!

Mike,
Thanks for that, I must have been doing something wrong, as I didn't realise the phrase [year=1841] was still a valid expression, as it didn't seem to work!
I'll give it another try!

I am new to plugin coding, but progressing well, and have been able to go through the records, and Identify each individual who was alive at each census. I now need to check if they already have a census fact for a specific year. This is achieved this in a query by including the row item, Exclude if...

Will do

Using the help 'Getting started on writing plugins' to write my first plugin, and I noticed that my first attempt at including a newline character in my text didn't work! Guidance clearly states you just simply add /n in your string to produce. This should read \n Can't believe this hasn't been ment...

Mike,
Perhaps I worded my thoughts incorrectly, I wasn't thinking solely of a query, but possibly a plugin that works on the resultset of the query.
i.e. Could a plugin write directly to the ToDo fact, appending text to existing ToDo note, without overwriting what is already there?

Having successfully followed the guidance on creating a To Do list and its associated report, I wonder if it is possible to automate the addition of an entry for an individual. E.G. I have a query that lists all individuals who are missing from a particular census year. I would like to append a ToDo...

Whilst I can't answer your specific question, may I comment that it is customary to refer to married women by their maiden name, because this will never change, and is easier to manage datawise. When I don't yet know her maiden name, e.g. I know John Smith's wife is Jane, I enter her as 'Jane SMITH ...