Family Historian User Group

Current Place Formats allow options to truncate after the first or second comma counting from the left (Short or Medium).

It would be helpful to have an option that allows truncation counting from the right. Thus 'Drop 1 from right' would render
'Nantwich, Cheshire, England' as 'Nantwich, Cheshire' and
'Vauxhall, Nantwich, Cheshire, England' as
'Vauxhall, Nantwich, Cheshire'
which is more useful than the Medium option that renders the 2 as
'Nantwich, Cheshire' and
'Vauxhall, Nantwich' - the latter being unhelpful if you don't come from Cheshire.
No doubt 'Drop 1 from right' should be coded to do nothing if there is only 1 node in the place name to start with.

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If I've got my head round it right, I think one way you can work round the issue is to use blank fields where necessary to keep all place names with the same number of fields. So for Nantwich, Cheshire, England you would put an extra comma at the start but not for the Vauxhall place. Continuing the theme, if you knew a place, but not the county (for instance) then you would have a double comma for the missing field, e.g. Nantwich, , England.

Hopefully that helps.

Agreed that lines it all up Jon but if I use a place name with the medium format in a diagram, I would then get either 'Nantwich' or 'Vauxhall, Nantwich' - which is fine for me 'cos I know where Nantwich is, but I'd like to add the 'Cheshire' on the diagram for those that don't.
I get a similar problem in the US where I'm using a 4-node system generally of 'town, county, state, USA'. If I use medium I'll get 'Somewheresville, Orange County'. Even I can't remember whether my relatives were in Orange County Virginia or OC California at that time (assuming there's an OC in each).
I guess another option would be your idea of blank comma 'nodes' plus a format truncating after the 3rd comma.