Editing auto text

stewart60 · Post by **stewart60** » 02 Dec 2011 12:51

I've been entering 1911 Wales census details using AS.

I've noticed that the 'Language Spoken' column heading on the Welsh census is not one of the auto headings to complete in AS-can I edit it in? (Although AS lists 'Nationality' I have found that this column wasn't completed at the time of the census - however the language column was!)

Also the text in the FH diagram box after completing the AS entries each time shows a census column sub-heading :'Whether employer,worker or working on own account'- can I edit this wording?

Thanks
Stewart

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Post by **tatewise** » 02 Dec 2011 13:37

BTW the Nationality column is only for foreign nationals to state their Nationality of origin.

To change the census grid use the Census > Census Templates editor and check out the Help.
Also there are tutorials in the Knowledge Base on Ancestral Sources especially Working With Templates at
http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id ... _templates

It would probably be best to create a New template for Wales 1911 and Copy and Paste from UK 1911 to get started.
You can then use the + Add new column to add the Language spoken column.

You can also change the wording of 'Whether Employer, Worker, or Working on Own Account' but that is what is on the Census form.
I am not sure what you mean by 'FH diagram box' but you can change the Recording options which may give you what you want.

You may also need to alter the Auto-text Template to include the Language spoken column, perhaps by adding a Welsh Census template.

johnmorrisoniom · Post by **johnmorrisoniom** » 02 Dec 2011 14:12

There are some Wales and Isle of Man census templates already in the downloads section

Post by **tatewise** » 02 Dec 2011 14:24

I had not spotted that download had been added, but unfortunately the download does not download correctly.

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 02 Dec 2011 14:39

I have fixed it now. There was a & in the name which confused matters.

stewart60 · Post by **stewart60** » 02 Dec 2011 15:29

Thanks everyone!

Managed to edit successfully!
Also downloaded the Wales 1901 and 1911 census templates.

I use census flags and have the ones for UK 1901 and 1911.
Do I now have to enter new flags to show the entries for these new Welsh templates or will my existing ones work?

Post by **tatewise** » 02 Dec 2011 16:50

You can do either, but must use Census > Census Flag Settings and assign a Flag to Wales 1901 and Wales 1911.
You can either use the new Flag offered, or select an existing Flag from the drop down list.

BTW, the Default Auto-text Template automatically includes the new Welsh Language column.

The IoM & Welsh 1901-1911 census template is now also in the Knowledge Base of FHUG Downloads at
http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id ... _1901-1911

stewart60 · Post by **stewart60** » 02 Dec 2011 21:27

All this has been helpful - thanks again!

Tried to find census icons for Wales 1901 and 1911 but no-one seems to have had a go!
Here's hoping....!

johnmorrisoniom · Post by **johnmorrisoniom** » 03 Dec 2011 10:48

I have a full set of England , Wales, Isle of Man , Scotland, Canada and US icons, that I will try and put on the downloads section over the weekend

Post by **tatewise** » 03 Dec 2011 11:15

Thanks for attempting to add an Icon Download, but the file is not a suitable download and does not work.
Ideally it needs to be a .zip file containing the icon files.

johnmorrisoniom · Post by **johnmorrisoniom** » 03 Dec 2011 12:23

The file was a zip file but hadn't uploaded properly.
I have sent it to Jane and she will add it manually, so file should be available later.

stewart60 · Post by **stewart60** » 04 Dec 2011 22:30

Since entering the census templates for Wales, I now find that
my autotext in AS simply doesn't work!

What might I have done wrong?!

Help please!

Post by **tatewise** » 05 Dec 2011 10:00

Not sure what could have happened - the IOM & Wales Census templates and Auto-text all work OK for me.
Did you simply use the Downloads templates, or have you made any other changes?

The Knowledge Base > FHUG Downloads advises 'Use the Ancestral Sources Census > Countries & Places > Cancel option to avoid an Import bug to be fixed in next release'.
Did you do that? I didn't but had no problems.

Try using Tools > Autotext Template Editor and select Source: Census and Template: Default then click Reset button.
Does the Preview at the bottom look OK? - click Close.

Check that Census > Countries & Places for Wales is OK.

Does the Autotext for Baptisms work OK?
It should not be relevant, but are you using Method 1 or Method 2?

stewart60 · Post by **stewart60** » 06 Dec 2011 17:30

Thanks for trying to help!-

I am using method 1.

I didn't take the option to 'avoid an Import bug to be fixed in next release'.

On opening AS tools> autotext editor, the baptism source has 3 template options but the census source has none. I didnt know what you meant by default at that stage but resetting didn't seem to make any difference.

On using AS and opening the project all seems fine with the baptism autotext. On opening Census > Census templates it seems that I have templates for UK 1841-1911 and Wales 1901,1911. I also have all for Canada, Ireland and the USA.
I can enter information as before and everything seems to be in order but autotext won't function

Post by **tatewise** » 06 Dec 2011 17:50

It seems that somehow the Default Autotext Template for Census has got lost.
Use Tools > Autotext Template Editor and select Source: Census and click the Reset button.
You should get a popup warning about resetting the templates, click OK.
If you click on Template: the Default template should now appear, and all will be OK.
It is simply the {CENSUSGRID} keyword.

If the above does not work, then there must be something amiss with your AS installation Autotext.xml file.

A workaround is to cretae a New template called Default with the {CENSUSGRID} keyword as its definition.

Post by **NickWalker** » 06 Dec 2011 19:35

Just to mention that I've kept out of this conversation because Mike is answering before I get a chance and I can't add anything to his responses which are good solutions.

stewart60 · Post by **stewart60** » 06 Dec 2011 19:49

I had to create a new default template.

All seems fine now.

Thank you very much.

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