Family Historian User Group

Just noticed that deleting a column in a Rich Text Table in a Generic Source, results in the loss of Hyperlinks from Column 1



Whilst I haven't checked every option in the Modify Table command, it does look as if most (including the new Split Table" command), do the same thing.

I've reported it to CP, but thought I'd mention it here, in case others miss it. I did not notice until I had edited about a dozen tables.

I still had version 7.0.11 on one computer and this wasn't an issue in that version. I updated to 7.0.15 and I can now reproduce it.

Cheers

Nick

Response from CP

Thank for you reporting that. We have confirmed that you are correct and that this is a bug. It will be fixed in the next update. I have made a note to contact you when it is ready.

I've just added a couple of 1939 registers using AS, and I generally use "fit" , then click on text to open up the text box for fine tuning, and removing any unused columns. The links were retained on opening in FH.
Thanks for Colin Mc for his post, as I hadn't discovered the "link" facility !!
Now to update all old census (as and when opened).
Can I assume there is no facility for applying links to all previous entries ?

cheers
Ian

I have an update coming (it is finished except for me updating the help guide which is always the thing that slows me down) which includes a new facility that helps to convert existing plain text census entries added with older versions of AS into rich text and optionally to use template sources too. This will add the hyperlinks to individuals too if you have that AS option set. However, it won't help if your source text is already richtext and you just want to add the hyperlinks

Really looking forward to that Nick. Thanks for all your work.

There's also a plugin: Convert text from source to rich text but it doesn't add the links.

And thanks to all the Plugin authors who also tend to be those that answer most of the help questions.

I'd be lost without this