* How To Display Computed Ages in Reports

[edmacke]

I would like to have calculated ages appear in report. The code "{their ages}" only appears to be populated if I manually enter the person's age at the event.

For example, I enter a person's DOB and the date she got married. In her timeline, it shows the calculated age parenthetically as "(33)". But in reports, that calculated value is not used to fill in the {their ages} code.

However, if I manually edit the marriage event, and type in "33" in the age field, the timeline now displays simply "33" and the report displays "when she was 33".

How can I make the report use a calculated age for {their ages}? Or is there another field I can use like {their computed ages} or something?

[LornaCraig]

This is from the FH help files:

[edmacke]

Thanks, Lorna! {their age ranges} gave me what I wanted.

I had actually seen that in the help file, but had assumed since it was called "range" that it was always going to give me a range, i.e. "33-34", and not a single value, i.e. "33".

But sure enough... when the DOB and event date give FH enough info to narrow it down to a single value, that's what's displayed.

So in my example, {their age ranges} gets displayed as "...when she was 33 and he was 35." Perfect!