* Reporting Customised Source Citations

[Medows]

With the introduction of FH7 it became possible to create customised source templates. I did this and created a subset of customised source templates. So I have the name of the Source Template collection which is "FH7 Custom Sources". Within this I had a custom template called "PR Burial". One of the fields inside this template was called "Collection".
I now want to pull out source citations that have a collection name of "England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567 - 1936".
I have looked at the standard supplied query called "Source Records - All" and I can extract the template collection of "FH7 Custom Sources".
In a similar way one of my other fields is called "Records Office" which is a place I can get a copy of the source other than the normal online collections such as Ancestry, Findmypast, etc.
I am sure there must be a way because why other would you want to use Custom Source Templates to collect additional data that you can't report.
Any help or advice would be gratefully welcomed.

Regards
Alan

[tatewise]

Alan, I think you are asking for the Source record Data Reference for a Template Metafield named Records Office.

See the FH Help page under General Topics > Advanced Topics > Understanding Data References and scroll to the end where it explains about Data References And Metafields. There is an identical Help page in FH itself.

See also FHUG Knowledge Base Understanding Data References.

In your example, it would be %SOUR.~TX-RECORDS_OFFICE% assuming it is a Text type of Metafield.

The reference is more complex because it is not a standard GEDCOM field like many of the others.

[Medows]

Perfect. Understood it now. Its the name of the references in the Source Template Definitions. You cant select it from normal lists which is fixed information. So expression must be used to pick up specifics.

Thanks Mike.

Kind Regards, Alan

[tatewise]

Yes, that is correct.
Although there is no fundamental reason why those Metafield references could not be included in the lists.
FH includes all custom Events and Attributes defined by Fact Sets so why not all Metafields defined by Source Templates?