Family Historian User Group

Well I was very close, by my reckoning anyway. I did try the =IsTrue function but I was trying it on FAM.SOUR instead of FAM.MARR.SOUR. Your solution is working nicely as a new column in the Family record window and as it works automatically I think I may use it instead of the manual flag that I cou...

In this session I am working my way through my records ensuring I have a suitable source for each marriage certificate, recreating sources as I see the need and plan to manually tick the flag as I am satisfied with each certificate/event/source situation. So far I have been using templated sources i...

The data reference FAM.MARR[1]._FLGS.__MARRIAGE_CERT% works perfectly in the custom tab, thank you. I can tick that manually when I possess a certificate for the marriage. The two expressions I presume are not intended for the custom tab as they reported errors of being in the wrong context. Are the...

Yes I created the flag for the marriage event and was hoping to use that flag in a custom tab in the family property box to manually tick and indicate the presence of a marriage certificate.

I have created a number of flags for each a census or birth/death certificate etc. and have created a custom property box tab to show these various flags. I thought I would like to do the same in the family property box to display the presence of a marriage certificate, parish marriage, GRO marriage...

Thank you both for your replies. I missed the explanation in the help file. The settings showing in the Individual property box is enough to show the source status, it just struck me as strange today seeing things from a different viewpoint i.e. from the Family view instead. I even went checking aga...

Earlier this year Mike was kind enough to help with my wish to indicate sourced/unsourced facts in the property box, see https://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=21443&p=133131#p133131 This spawned a Wish List request for Calico Pie to consider it further. https://www.fhug.org.uk/wishlist/...

Mine was up recently. I phoned in advance and asked for the auto renewal to be disabled. I pleaded my case and was offered a 30%, then a 40% discount. I asked for the offer to be left on my account telling them I would be considering my options which included the possibility of not renewing at all a...

For a simpler solution use the "Custom ID" field to store the #Blood Relative or #Direct Ancestor and configure the Record window and Property box to display the entry.

Bev A workaround while your suggestion is in the wish list being considered. Create a Note for each individual you want to mark as Blood Relative. Open the Rich Text window and use the toolbar feature "Manage Hashtags..." to add a new Hashtag called Blood Relative. Untick "Private" and assign text a...

Generate your diagram as normal then right click and select "Diagram Options" from the menu. Select the Text tab and choose the text scheme "Name Only (Compact)". This may suit your needs but it does show First Names and Surname. If necessary the cloned text scheme can be edited to remove the "Surna...

If you don't get any help locally then maybe you would consider joining a Zoom group that was set up just for Family Historian users. You can see and hear others explain their problems and see the help they receive. Screens are shared and users are guided through their problems. I am sure someone wi...

I have just voted on a wish list item and the time stamp appears to be showing several hours into the future.

Is the server clock out of sync with real time?

There is a Knowledge base page about syncing between two PC's, including the use of One Drive.

Synchronising Family Historian between 2 PCs

See New Project Wizard - Enter Name for New Project

See File Save As Dialog

About 700 but a long way to go

That ought to describe every forum section.

I agree the goal of the forum should be to make itself friendly and welcoming to new forum and new FH users but that may not be apparent from the outside, so to speak.

A sub-forum labelled as Newcomers would perhaps show that sentiment up front.

A lot of the discussion in this thread seems to be about devising an approach where new FH users can find the help they need without necessarily having the product knowledge to correctly define their question using FH terminology. I am only a few years into my use of FH and can remember how daunting...

For naming media files you could always include an individual or family ID number in the filename.

It may not be immediately obvious who they are from the number but very easy to look up.

BTW: Do you need to cope with both 'Scholar' and 'scholar' or any other case variant? I think it is meant to cope with different uses of upper case so a comparison of Scholar to scholar doesn't fail. It converts all text found in the OCCU fact to lower case before doing its comparison looking for s...

John You have given me a further thought about what I am actually recording in the note box and how I could reduce it a little. I do like to see the common ancestors names in the note box and as links I can click to jump to them so didn't really want to give that up. To get that to work I intended r...

The response from Calico Pie... Thank you for reporting this issue (i.e. that =GetLabelledText() is not rendering record links as plain text but simply excluding them altogether). We have confirmed the issue. It will be fixed in the next update. I have made to contact you when the next update is ava...

I think I have now worked out how I will use the various suggestions My fact note field will look like this [[ cM Value:345 Male:John Doe Male ID:123 Female:Jane Doe Female ID:124 Link:Ancestry DNA ]] My query functions will be: %INDI% %INDI._ATTR-DNA_MATCH_R[1]% =Relationship(Record(XX,"I"),,TEXT,1...

The restriction in the Help for GetLabelledText only applies to labels inside Rich Text Tables in Note fields. It does NOT apply to other labels in Rich Text outside Tables in Note fields Mike Maybe I was doing something wrong but I couldn't get =GetLabelledText function to extract text from INDI h...