Family Historian User Group

Is there something special about the Death Witness Role for Doctor.

I've started with the following code

{individual} died <of a {cause},> {date} <at {address}> {place} {age}.< {individual's} doctor was {role=doctor}. >

This generates a sentence error as follows
If I then change to {individual}, I get a similar error
However changing to {his/her} gives me a different error, "her" appears as expected, the Doctor Role is now in error, but the <> symbols are not showing
Finally removing that first code completely (as in) < doctor was {role=doctor}. >, this works correctly, giving me "doctor was Dr Mason"

I've also tried

adding a word before the problem template code
deleting all the later entries for minister etc (which had all worked fine)
Removing the first {individual} code
{individual/him/her} (same error as {him/her}

but none of these made any difference

So am I doing something wrong? I cannot see anything in the forum/KB.

My next test was to simplify the whole thing, and start with <{individual's}> on its own. That worked. I then added {role=doctor}. That worked. I then copied and pasted both working codes, removed the middle <> and I get an error.

It seems to be a limitation of using another individual format code with in a single section.
works OK as a work around.

It has to be more than that. I had already tried removing the first {individual}. as that was my suspicion

But, if you take the bare bones example in my second post, if I remove the first code, I still get an error.

The restriction is that you cannot have two {codes} within one <angle bracket>.
The first (or maybe the last) {code} determines whether to include the <angle bracket> contents or not, and other {codes} are treated as plain text prefix or suffix.

So if one {code} is any of the {individual...} codes then they always return a value, so they unconditionally include the <angle bracket> contents and everything before or after that {code} is plain text prefix or suffix.

OK that makes sense now. Thanks