Family Historian User Group

Hi all. Still testing my move from Relatively Yours 3 to FH7.

RY3 has a number of "sensitivity" checkboxes such as Person is of a Sensitive Nature, Parent-Child Relationship is of a Sensitive Nature, Event (Fact) is of a Sensitive Nature, Portfolio (Media) Objects, even down to individual event descriptions and dates. The most common use of these checkboxes is to limit what can be reported/printed, but you can also limit what is displayed (for example, if you are showing your screen to another person).

I know about [[private text]] in FH7 and the Clean Living Persons and Clean Unwanted Fields plugins, but is there anything like the above checkboxes?

Thanks,

Glenn

The only things that spring to mind are the Record Flags: 'Private' & 'Living' and the Fact Flags: 'Private', 'Rejected', etc.

Oh, some more things I don't know much about! Thanks for the suggestions. Time to do some more reading.

Thanks Mike.

Woodg wrote: ↑

10 Nov 2022 13:24

... you can also limit what is displayed (for example, if you are showing your screen to another person). ...

I'm thinking that it would be possible to create specific reports or charts that take account of flags like the ones Mike mentions. But so far as I can remember, or see in a quick check, there's no facility to restrict sensitive data across the board for someone sitting in front of the screen that FH is running on. Basically, FH is designed to work with one person - the "author" - or others of equal status.

AdrianBruce wrote: ↑

10 Nov 2022 21:57

Woodg wrote: ↑

10 Nov 2022 13:24

... you can also limit what is displayed (for example, if you are showing your screen to another person). ...

I'm thinking that it would be possible to create specific reports or charts that take account of flags like the ones Mike mentions. But so far as I can remember, or see in a quick check, there's no facility to restrict sensitive data across the board for someone sitting in front of the screen that FH is running on. Basically, FH is designed to work with one person - the "author" - or others of equal status.

Hi Adrian,

I rarely used the feature, but it did come in handy when showing family members but wanting to keep some details secret e.g. children born before their parents were married, or the birth father not known. Probably not much of an issue for younger folk as the stigma of such events is mostly gone, but some of the older family members still feel shame. I suppose it doesn't really matter to me anymore as almost all of my older family are deceased now. Further investigation this morning has shown that the RY3 exported GEDCOM only contains some of these checkboxes anyway!

Thanks for feedback,

Glenn

In case you don't know, it's possible to hide individual boxes or whole branches in diagrams. Right click on a box in the diagram and choose Hide. Any branch attached to that box will also be hidden. You can then save the diagram as a Family Historian Chart, which can be opened using Charts > Saved Charts. So you could show someone the screen displaying the saved Chart and the 'sensitive' information would be hidden.

But you would still have to be careful not to let them see a Property box, for example, where they might notice and extra 'unknown' spouse/partner or child!

LornaCraig wrote: ↑

11 Nov 2022 10:40

In case you don't know, it's possible to hide individual boxes or whole branches in diagrams. Right click on a box in the diagram and choose Hide. Any branch attached to that box will also be hidden. You can then save the diagram as a Family Historian Chart, which can be opened using Charts > Saved Charts. So you could show someone the screen displaying the saved Chart and the 'sensitive' information would be hidden.

But you would still have to be careful not to let them see a Property box, for example, where they might notice and extra 'unknown' spouse/partner or child!

Thanks Lorna. Using a diagram is a great idea. I must admit that I'm one of those people who rarely uses diagrams and haven't used them in FH7 yet.

Glenn