Family Historian User Group

Mike, Apologies, I knew the remove option was there, just hadn't run it. I ran it just now and it reset all Sentences except one which is illustrated. I reran it but it still didn't reset it. The attached image shows the record. Interestingly the Miscellaneous Facts either side of it didn't get chan...

Mike, If you do release this, a couple of things I think need to made very clear to users. If you amend a Fact Sentence Template , the changes won't appear in all instances of the Fact until the Plugin is run again as the instant update is lost. If you customise a Sentence in the Facts window, when ...

Mike, I have been having a play doing quite a bit of editing and creating facts and all seems to be well . I will have a go at the things you suggest but I won't have much time over the next few days as I have three long days in court (I am a magistrate) Mon-Wed. The narrative reports are very much ...

Mike, Worked like a dream. I restored a back up and ran it with no errors and the results look perfect. I then restored the back up again and opened Fact Types, selected Extended, filter = "None" only one appeared Military Service. No pop up though, so I revealed hidden and made them all visible. Cr...

Mike,

Thank you but I am afraid it had an error, see image.
I also download your Quick Child Lookup which is excellent. It in fact plugs a gap (excuse the pun) having moved from TMG where child birth details were visible in the equivalent of the Focus Window in FH.

Sorry but I can't resist an academic challenge so I have topped and tailed this so dates appear as they should, quarter dates, before, after etc. Between dates etc won't have th, nd though, that is where being able to call user defined functions would really work. I shall put this on the back burner...

Mike, I wasn't suggesting this was the answer, just exploring if it could be done. If I was writing a function for wider use I would wrap it with tests for a full date etc and add in or on . As it is not possible at present to save user defined functions it is a bit to long winded to include in each...

Mike,

Before I report this to Calico Pie what is the recommend way of doing so?

David

Mike, Thank you, look forward to your PlugIn. In the meantime I have created the following which works, but would be needed to pasted into every Fact sentence. Is there a way of saving such it can be referenced by say {date_expanded} as one would normally create a function when programming? {%FACT.D...

Mike, Thank you I am making the changes in my word processor. I think I was mis-led by the help, see attached screen which has 'th' on the date. I will think about this one before embarking on the labelled Note route which doesn't seem very elegant. Thank you for the offer to try the pilot plug-in b...

I see in Narrative circa. dates can be replaced with (approx.), but is it possible to replace it with "about" which reads much better? Also, is it possible to have dates with nd, st, rd after the day. In my books I like to use these formats but it gets a bit tedious. I have searched the help and thi...

Mike, I wouldn't quite say that, but I have many years of programming experience in many languages and in database design and management. I did look at Expressions in the Knowledge Base and have set up a few already. I thought this more difficult expression must be possible, and had a go, but the di...

Mike,

I did wonder if it was as simple as that.

Thank you very much for your help, I can begin to see how expressions work now.

Mike,

Thank you, that works a treat. My next hurdle is to do the same in a marriage sentence and pick up the spouses parents, is that possible?

In a sentence I am able to produce "...of John Starling Butcher and Eleanor Durrell Norman" with the expression {%CUR_PRIN.FAMC[1]>%} , but I cannot seem to find how to get son of... / daughter of ..... Is that possible?

Jane and Mike,

Many thanks for responses, 'tis amazing how much is 'hidden away'. I managed to achieve what I wanted (attached image) but I would never have guessed that Button diameter was the key to changing generation column spacing.

Apologies for posting in the wrong forum.

I have been experimenting with the various options to create compact tree diagrams for my family books, i.e. get a large tree on an A4 page maintaining legibility. I have achieved this as per the attached image but one thing I cannot seem to change is the gap between the columns of generations, if t...

Regarding books, I am writing a book with a chapter for each of my and my wife's grandparents, six done, two to go. I am new to FH recently switching from TMG and as Mike says sentence templates need a lot of work and I have been concentrating on getting them to my previous TMG standard. The way I h...

This is an interesting topic. For over 25 years we have always tried to record addresses as they were at the time of the event regardless of how commercial websites show them. Middlesex is a good example. Many places were in Middlesex until the 1890s when they became part of the County of London, th...

As you replied to my post I will reply to yours. You make a good point. I adopted a policy in TMG many years ago to use custom Tags for specific events (e.g. Military Start, Military Service, Military End, Medals, Wounded, Education Start, Education Continue, Education End etc) in order to get sente...

You have hit the nail on the head. The issues coming into FH are getting ones mind around the terminology and the way things work which significantly differ from TMG. I too haven't looked up things correctly in the help and on this Forum, but with such good responses on this Forum I have made great ...

Mike,

Many thanks, successfully achieved what I wanted to with your guidance.

David

I am new to FH having migrated from TMG. I notice that you can include some source details in a sentence, e.g. {%FACT.SOUR[1].PAGE%} picks up from the field <Where Within Source>. I cannot seem to locate a list of such codes in the Knowledge Base or forum in order to pick up other details in sentenc...

Mike, Indeed I have have a look at lot of entries on the forum and knowledge base. I am still using the free trial but am reaching a conclusion that FH is going to be fine, so suspect I will buy very soon and have a go with a plug-in. Spending my time playing with diagrams etc and checking all the b...

Thank you for your help Mike, very helpful information.