* Get Labelled Text

[CurtisB48]

Mike

Could you help me please by showing/telling me how to do this.

I would like to follow your example in your Fields For Sources (9518) (forum posting dated 16th May 2011) for transcribing information from BMD Certificates. I have looked at the advanced help in FH5 for Get Labelled Text, but don't know where to start or how to do it, apologies if it is obvious.

Brian

[tatewise]

Brian, apologies if that other posting has confused you - the following may help to explain:

The other member Graham Wade was experienced in using the Ancestral Sources program, and was asking for detailed advice about its preference options for recording specific Source document information.

ancestralsources:index|> Ancestral Sources simplifies the task of transcribing Source document information into FH, but only for the types of Source it currently supports (Census, Baptism, Marriage).

Typically, the text of a Source document such as a BMD Certificate is transcribed into the Source record Text From Source field. Other than using Ancestral Sources, this is a manual copy typing process. However, it is a good idea to use a text layout that is consistent with your use of Ancestral Sources.

A Source document such as a BMD Certificate often has many labelled fields/boxes for its information, but far too many for the fields/boxes in the FH Source record. So my example showed a Text From Source layout with one field/box per line, each with a Label to the left and the Information to the right. e.g.

Code: Select all

Certificate:   BXCE 123408
District:      Uxbridge
County:        Middlesex
Entry No:      432

The function =GetLabelledText() is useful only in isolating a particular Label to retrieve its Information for use in a Diagram, Report, Query or elsewhere that an Expression is supported by FH.
So assuming the Source record Text From Source field data reference is %SOUR.TEXT%, then:

=GetLabelledText( %SOUR.TEXT%, "”District:" ”) would supply Uxbridge from the above transcript.

=GetLabelledText( %SOUR.TEXT%, "”Entry No:" ”) would supply 432 from the above transcript.

To complete the picture, it saves a lot of typing and is more consistent if a Text From Source template of predefined Labels could be used.
Ancestral Sources allows such Templates to be defined for its Source types, and automatically fills in the Information you enter against each Label, which is one reason for its popularity.
For other Source types the Plugin Clone Any Record is useful.
It allows you to create pre-formatted Source record templates, one per Source type, and copy them to provide a consistent blank Source record with all the Labels in the Text From Source field, the Type field set to Birth Certificate for example, and perhaps the Repository link completed.

[CurtisB48]

Mike

Thanks for your reply, I will have a look at this in Ancestral Sources.

Brian