Family Historian User Group

On Version 6 I had a custom query using the GetLabelledText function and it was working, But with Version 7 some of the cells are blank.
Has there been any changes to the function to cause this?
Column entry has in the “Expression” Column =GetLabelledText(%INDI.NOTE2[last]%,"<a href=")
The Note of one of the records with blank entry is
See
[[1]]<a href="www.mcmullin.me.uk/par_chest/overseers. ... erseers</a>
[[2]]<a href="www.mcmullin.me.uk/places/tadmorton.html">Tadmarton</a>
While
See
<a href="www.mcmullin.me.uk/military/froud.html">Military Service</a>
displays correctly.
Help would be appreciated.
Eric

Yes, there seems to have been a change to that function. I can replicate your symptoms exactly.

The wording of that function definition in FH V6 is:
"the function would search the specified long text field for this label."
But in FH V7 it now says:
"the function would search the specified long text field for a paragraph beginning with this label."

So your Notes that start paragraphs with [[1]]<a href no longer match.

All I can suggest is that you report that problem to Calico Pie via http://www.calico-pie.com/osticket/open.php

Such changes that are not backwards compatible are most infuriating. You have my sympathy.
The only workaround would involve putting the [[1]] on a separate line or at the end of the web address.

BTW: In the FH V7 rich text Notes you can make those entries into active web links.

Thank you. It seems to explain what’s happening. It looks like it’s back to the drawing board.
I’ll contact Calico Pie and look into using active web-links.
Can the active web-links be displayed in query reports?

After a quick experiment, it looks as if active web links do NOT appear in Query Results.
You would have to add some simple text to get anything to appear in a Query.

I tried contacting Calico Pie and got the reply
- The logic has been tightened to avoid problems when rich text is encountered.

Not very satisfactory. I could not get them to see the problem. In the end I gave up.

A solution I have come up with is

[[+ hyperlinks.]]
See our pages on Overseers and Todmartin
and descents from John BROMLEY and Thomas MOREBY
[[
1: Overseers
2: Tadmarton
Descent from John BROMLEY
and descent from Thomas MOREBY
]]
With changes to the queries “Hyperlinks” and “Hyperlinks Select Page”
=GetLabelledText(%INDI.NOTE2[last]%,"<a href=") → =GetLabelledText(%INDI.NOTE2[last]%,"1: ")
=GetLabelledText(%INDI.NOTE2[last]%,"Descent from <a href=") → =GetLabelledText(%INDI.NOTE2[last]%,"Descent from") etc


It works!

Sorry that CP were not very helpful, especially as there is nothing in the What's new pages to suggest it has been tightened.

Interestingly, the new =FindText( ... ) function searches everywhere.
I wondered whether there was a way of using that to find your labelled Notes.
But since you have found a workaround, and few people are likely to be affected, that has gone on the back-burner.