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Thanks all...you're right of course re test data...if I was working I'd be the first to get it done properly, but dev is now a pastime so why let professionalism get in the way !

But I will implement a Named List feature today!

Cheers

Hi Does anyone have any advice for how to get the FH plugin debug window in FH to run programs at a 'normal' speed? My experience is that my code runs 50 times slower in the debug window than when run directly from the Plugin window... even after I've turned off Debug Mode and unchecked all the vari...

Thanks !

Hi again I need to extract a list of children of a family in birth sequence (or as entered) in a Plugin. I thought this would be straightforward: find the FAM record and work through the CHIL records. Trouble is that (a) not all of the children are being returned (the MoveNext only returns a child w...

Thanks for the explanation Mike.

I have seen the other fields working, but I recently re-wrote the code and I guess I used the surname code as a template, not noticing the subtle difference!

Cheers!

Hi all There's probably a good reason, but I'm not getting any "given named used" when using a plugin to extract names. Code snippet: ptrName = fhNewItemPtr() ptrName:MoveTo(ptrIndi,"~.NAME") local givennameused = fhGetItemText(ptrName,'~:_USED') fhMessageBox('givennameused:='..givennameused) Test d...

Thanks for the help. Will give it a go!

Hi again - another API question... I've had some fun trying to figure out how to extract long text fields, e.g. Notes or Text from Source, with all the html formatting in tact (or with known control char behaviour). These can either be rich text/embedded html or plain text with/without carriage retu...

Thanks Mike!

Super useful. Thanks! I've spent an hour or so working an example which gets what I need. I have noticed that for local family facts such as marriage the test ptrOwner IsSame() as ptrIndi fails in that ptrOwner is a family vs an individual ... so I've been looking at testing both spouses. I was tryi...

Hi I'm extracting Facts for each Individual using the fhIndGetFactList function, including their witness and timeline facts. I'm struggling to see how, for a witness fact, I can get to the original Fact data that was witnessed. For example: There is a Fact item A for Joe Bloggs witnessing the marria...

Aaaahhh! I was looking at the duplicate entries without the parentheses, thinking those were the main/complete entries! I would imagine there's a really good explanation for that and for the colour scheme of the bullets, but I've taken enough of your time!

Thanks again!

Talln

Thanks for your responses. I was looking on the Family Historian website which is identical except that the "Family Historian Plugin Help" link on the "Plugins Dialog" page doesn't work (or is it for just me?). So the provided link is very helpful! Thanks @ColeValleyGirl @Tatewise's guidance as to t...

Hi, I'm sure this must have been raised before, but if so I can't find the answer in FHUG. Sorry. I'm trying to extract citation data from FH - initially using a Query, and then when prototyped, in a LUA Plug-In - specifically: Citation-specific details fields Citation Text instances Citation Notes ...

Thanks ...I guess than would work! That said, it seems wrong to have to make a copy, then run a third-party app to delete things, then generate the web page. I suspect that it would require some major re-factoring of FH code to retrofit this logic to all possible reports...but probably something tha...

Hi I'd like to add a Place Report to my website Home page so visitors can see activity in a particular place over time...but the report must not show Living or Private Individuals' data. After trying multiple tweaks to the Place Report settings I am stumped as to get it to exclude Private and/or Liv...

Thanks tatewise - I missed that thread. But the conversation is not very reassuring...

Hi This question has been asked before but I can't replicate the accepted response in FH7. I'm trying to create a compact "waterfall" style report of all the descendants of a person, similar to the Focus Descendants tab. The 'use case' is to create a one (or two) page document that can be sent to a ...