Family Historian User Group

Thank you Mark and Mike,
I know there are a couple of templates and some plugins I will want to continue using, but nothing I can’t recreate or download into my “clean master set up”.
Thanks again for all the help and guidance you both provide in the FHUG.
Curt

I am ready to make the jump from RM8 to FH7. Over the the past couple of months I have imported a couple of different files to “play” with FH7 getting comfortable with the features and make sure I understand the differences between RM8 & FH7. During this time I have created source templates, downloa...

Not sure if this is the correct thread for this question. I am trying to format the footnote and bibliography for custom source/citations fields and would like some help with field code qualifiers for "place' type fields. I have search the FH Help, FHUG KB and done several searched of this forum, bu...

There were a couple of other threads dealing with EE and the Advanced collections around this same issue. Didn’t know if the info should be posted there as well. Would be happy to supply my RM GEDCOM file for testing, if it would help.

I wanted to provide the feedback/response from CP tech support on the ticket I submitted last week. The ticked raised two issues. The information in quotes under item 1 is taken directly from CP’s response to me. The information under item 2 is my summary of communication back and forth with CP and ...

I have decided the transition to FH7 is a much larger task/effort than I have the time to commit to at this point. After way too many hours spent in frustration and failing to successfully create even simple plugins, (or simple queries for that matter), and coming to grips with the fact that this wa...

Agree - the main thing I have learned through this transition, is that the lumping-splitting decision is driven as much, if not more, on the database file structure than it is on any desired methodology and that I will need to employ a much higher level of splitting going forward. I have been playin...

Potential bigger problem - I was going through each of my RM Source Records to get a feel of how many FH Source Records would be needed based on the lumping limitation of the FH file structure (as if I was starting from scratch in FH and forgetting about the whole digital image format issue for the ...

The issue with the importation of the Source record for EE style citations of online digital images led me to review my RM Master Source list to see if there were other instances of citation level metafields in the Bibliography formats. Short answer is yes. See my post in FH7 : Using Evidence Explai...

I was also struggling with the lumping/splitting differences between RM and FH and the ability to use Evidence Explained Style. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I picked an a layered citation for an online image record to compare the differences between RM and FH. Other issues with importing and the t...

Poor choice of words
Hoping as in "they will (or are able) to provide flexibility in response to ticket",
not Hoping as in "wishing something magic happens"

Although I have spent some time messing with data entry to get a feel for the user interface, most of my time in the past month has been focused on issues regarding the transfer from RM. So I decided to look at how I might approach source/citations going forward. Per the KB, the Advanced collection ...

Great discussion and it has certainly expanded way beyond my "issue" with specific templates dealing with a specific type of record - online images of local jurisdictional records. Below is an image from an EE quick check model for an online image with the website and year in the bibliography. EE pa...

The plug-in needs to bring all fields over. I can’t think of any citation level meta fields that would not be needed for the Footnotes. The issue in my case is my decision to follow EE methodology, see import of RM7 Citations (19266) and only involves the templates for citing digital images. This ma...

cwhermann wrote: ↑15 Apr 2021 10:57 ... now I have to figure out how I want to handle the issue that Citation-specific Fields are not allowed in the FH Bibliography Format. One option is to abandon Evidence Explained methodology. Another would be to add another field to Source Level. ... I should h...

That’s great, now I have to figure out how I want to handle the issue that Citation-specific Fields are not allowed in the FH Bibliography Format. One option is to abandon Evidence Explained methodology. Another would be to add another field to Source Level. Either one will require a rework of the t...

by tatewise » 14 Apr 2021 15:11
Sometimes the value is a copy of the GEDCOM value, but for such as FOOTNOTE and BIBLIO the [brackets] must be {changed}.

Does this mean the plugin would need to change the [ ] to { } or I would need to do this manually after the FH template was created?

I do not see any of this portion of the GEDCOM in the UDF file. Does FH7 just ignore?

Here is image of 0 _STMPLT for the template used in for the Source/Citations in my previous images so there is consistency across the images. In RM there are no default Footnote, Short Footnote, and Bibliography templates - they are blank unless the users builds/creates them. Mark's GEDCOM file woul...

Mike wrote: It would be useful to know the RM source and citation template field codes so we could automatically create a matching set of codes in the FH Source Template Format fields. However, those RM source and citation template field codes are omitted from the TITL, _SUBQ & BIBL fields. So the p...

Now that I have mastered Lua ;) , I'll dig into the API, HIPO, and fhUTILS - and we are not even half way through the alphabet yet!!! For someone completely new to LUA, I found the link Mervyn provided, https://www.tutorialspoint.com/lua/index.htm very helpful and recommend anyone just starting with...

Mike Wrote: There are aspects that are unclear to me involving the Citation Where Within Source PAGE, and Source record TITL, ABBR, _SUBQ & _BIBL fields and how the FH Source Template Title, Footnote, Short Footnote & Bibliography Formats are derived. Here is what I found with my custom template cit...

What shows up in the Footnote and Short Footnote of the FH citation entry window is the RM Footnote formatted text (which is imported from TITL line in the RM GEDCOM to the FH Title field) and the text from FH Where Within field (see below) The Bibliography is duplication of Footnote and Short Footn...

Da - A light bulb moment !!!
The whole goal here is not to "re-import" portions of the GEDCOM file differently, its to "re-arrange" the information already imported by FH7. Hence the reason for trying to understand what got imported and where.
Thanks

Here a portion of the Ged file for the source shown in my previous post. Not sure if this helps, (or complicates things), but it contains additional info. ABBR = the title of the the Source in RM (this is imported to the Short title field in FH7) TITL = the text string portion of the Footnote, less ...