* Duplicate Source Pictures Under Family Group Sheet

[BobWard]

I normally attach grave stone pictures to Individuals as part of the Burial fact.  In most cases, the grave stone picture includes both husband & wife.  I use the same Source citation for both husband & wife.  This practice puts the grave stone picture at the end of the report as part of my Source information.

This works fine for Individual reports.  However, when I go to a Family Group Sheet, the grave stone picture gets repeated twice, once for the husband and once for the wife.

I realize I could attach the grave stone picture to the Family instead of the Individual, thus eliminating the duplication of the picture.  However, this practice puts the grave stone picture at the beginning of the Family Group Sheet.  I would rather have the picture in the back of the report, with my Source data, rather than at the top of the first page.

Is there anyway to accomplish this?

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[tatewise]

I cannot duplicate your symptoms.
When a Family Group Sheet is created for a couple, there is only one Sources section with one Grave stone picture at the end of the report.
It is cross-referenced from both Burial Events.

Exactly where are your two copies of the Grave stone picture appearing in the Family Group Sheet report?

The only way I can get the picture to appear twice is if it is attached to both spouses Individual Multimedia tabs.
Whether it appears in any Report depends on its Preference and the Max. Pics setting on the Report Options > Pictures tab.

[LornaCraig]

tatewise said:
I cannot duplicate your symptoms.
When a Family Group Sheet is created for a couple, there is only one Sources section with one Grave stone picture at the end of the report.
It is cross-referenced from both Burial Events.

If Bob is getting the source (and therefore the picture) listed twice it may be for reasons discussed in another thread a couple of months ago: http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cg ... y&num=6821

In Report Options > Sources tab, there is an option to 'Combine Identical Citations for same Source', which is selected by default in the Installation Settings. But there is also a section for 'Source Citation Information to Include'. If you have any of the items in this section ticked and the details differ for various citations (for example the burial date in the 'Entry Date' field) the citations will be treated as different and will not be combined.

The solution is to make sure the citations are identical. You could alternatively choose to omit the non-identical fields from 'Source Citation Information to Include' but this will apply to all sources used in the report, which may not be desirable.

[BobWard]

There is a 'Burial' event for each person.  That Burial event has a different date for each person, since the husband & wife died on different dates.

The 'Source' for each Burial event is identical, i.e., 'Grave Stone, Frank & Caroline Dobbels'.  In fact, I set up the Burial event Source, with the attached grave stone picture, for the husband and then copied & pasted that identical Source when I cited the Burial Source for the wife.

In the Family Group Sheet, the husband's Burial event has a Source reference number of 6 and the wife's Burial event has a Source reference number of 7, and the grave stone picture shows up twice at the end of the report.

Under Report Options, the boxes are checked for 'Combine Idential Citations for Same Source' & 'Use Ibid for Repeated Citations to Same Source.

[LornaCraig]

From what you say I assume the source no.6 is listed in full and no.7 appears as 'Ibid'.  This is used when the source is identical but the citation information differs in some detail (Entry date, Assessment level, Where within Source, Text from Source or Notes).  Are any of these listed against either 6 or 7?  If you can't resolve it, could you post a screen shot of items 6 and 7 in the source listing from the report?

[tatewise]

Thanks Lorna, I forgot about that feature.
Bob, Lorna is not talking about the Date field in the Burial Event, but the Entry Date field in the yellow Sources pane, and the fields below that.
If any differ between husband & wife, then the entry is duplicated.

[BobWard]

I'll be darned.  Yes, it was a tiny spelling error in the 'Where within Source' box, i.e., the husband's box included the text 'See attached photo of grave stone', while the wife's text box said 'See atached photo of grave stone'.  Notice the way the word 'attached' is spelled in each case, i.e., one 't' vs 'tt'.

That was an easy one to gloss over without really looking close.

Thanks for the tips.  Problem solved.