Family Historian User Group

I am encouraged with FH V7 that I can produce the type of output that I find suits my needs. I have created some shared facts that will group together many individuals and associate them to one fact.

When I can construct a sentence that I like there are some areas that I can’t seem to get correct. I can create a sentence as such as: • StepSon: {role(single)=stepson}><<br>. This works well but in my family my ancestors were not very creative with naming people. I have many generations, usually about 3, that there was a person identically named in each generation. So I have a John, John, John in succession. I also have some where in the same family that I have a son named John who died in early childhood and the next son born was also named John. Very confusing.

So I was trying to more closely identify each person in the previously illustrated sentence. My goal was to include a birth year and death year to the sentence to clearly identify which John I was referring to. The RIN can technically be used but in trying to create output that is readable that does not do it as well as I would like.

My question is it possible to get the birth and death date from a role person?

I have tried adding this to the sentence: {%CUR_PRIN.BIRT.DATE:YEAR%} but this gets me the birth of the principle and not the role person. Is it possible to get the B date of the role person. I have tried many attempts but all have failed.

Another problem that I have run into (my own doing) is that if I try this: {%CUR_PRIN.BIRT.DATE:YEAR%}{%CUR_PRIN.DEAT.DATE:YEAR%} the first year comes out but the second date comes out as text.

Any help would be appreciated.

Sorry, but many users have tried that approach, but it is impossible to add the extra details you want.
It is just not possible to combine {role(single)=stepson} with any other computed value such as {%CUR~WITN.BIRT.DATE%} inside the conditional <angle brackets> and {=CombineText(...)} does not offer a solution because {role(single)=stepson} is not an allowed parameter inside functions.
Anyway, CUR~WITN is invalid in that context, and even if it worked I'm not sure it would cope with {role(plural)=stepson} when there are multiple witnesses.

I suspect the problem with {%CUR_PRIN.BIRT.DATE:YEAR%}{%CUR_PRIN.DEAT.DATE:YEAR%} is you are using it inside conditional <angle brackets> and that is not valid because only one {%...%} is allowed.
There must be only one computed value that either exists or does not exist on which the conditional <angle brackets> make its decision.
You can combine them as {=Text( Text(%CUR_PRIN.BIRT.DATE:YEAR%) . "-" . Text(%CUR_PRIN.DEAT.DATE:YEAR%) )} or somewhat more simply {=LifeDates(%CUR_PRIN%)}

Thank you Mike,

I suspected that this was not possible but thought I would ask to see if some one else had come up with a solution