Family Historian User Group

Hi all,

In my plugin, I have the following code:

local strCit = fhGetValueAsText(fhGetItemPtr(ptrCitation, '~.AUTH'))
local strTitle = fhGetValueAsText(fhGetItemPtr(ptrCitation,'~.TITL'))
local strPubl = fhGetValueAsText(fhGetItemPtr(ptrCitation,'~.PUBL'))
local strPage = fhGetValueAsText(fhGetItemPtr(ptrCitation,'~.PAGE'))

All works as expected, except for the last line, which always returns an empty string, even though there is text in "Where Within Source."

Your help is appreciated.

Shoshana

Hi again,

OK. So I figured it out and thought I'd post the solution in case it helps somebody else.

Those pesky greater-than signs...

I initialized ptrCitation as follows (I'm looping through citations, so I use a variable for the index):

local cit = 1
local ptrCitation = fhGetItemPtr(pFact, '~.SOUR[' .. cit .. ']>')

But, to get at "Where Within Source", as opposed to the Author, Title and Publication Facts, you don't use ">"

So I changed my code to:

local ptrPage = fhGetItemPtr(pFact, '~.SOUR[' .. cit .. '].PAGE')
local strPage = fhGetValueAsText(ptrPage)

And now it works.

Shoshana

Just to clarify, the Citation & Source details are in different positions with different data refs.

Citations are attached to Facts in the Individual/Family Records, i.e. they appear in the Individual/Family Property Box and separated with a dot.
~.SOUR[1].DATA.DATE = 1st Citation Entry Date
~.SOUR[1].DATA.TEXT[1] = 1st Citation 1st Text From Source
~.SOUR[1].PAGE = 1st Citation Where within Source
~.SOUR[1].NOTE2[1] = 1st Citation 1st Note

Sources are separate Records and appear in a Source Property Box, which is why you need the > link indicator.
~.SOUR[1]>AUTH = 1st Source Record Author
~.SOUR[1]>TEXT =1st Source Record Text From Source
~.SOUR[1]>NOTE2[1] = 1st Source Record 1st Note