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I just found out that the attribute 'Possessions', is missing in the printout of a Family Group Sheet, although there are fields in that attribute. Other attributes like Residence do show up, as well as all the events attached to that person (in this case, the husband).

What am I doing wrong??

Sabine


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Can you confirm both the Family and Individual 'lists' in options are set to all please.

I presume 'Possessions' is a custom attribute.

Jane,

thanks a lot for answering. Basically, I like the program far more than the other 'big' ones like TMG and Legacy, but it seems I'll have to learn a lot still.

As to the question of what is in the options: in both cases it is 'all':
'Report Options', 'Contents': 'Marriage Events/Attributes' and 'Family Member Events/Attributes' are both set to 'All'.
And indeed it seems to be a problem with custom attributes, just this minute I had the same problem with another custom attribute. Haven't tried custom events yet.

Sabine

I have just checked and on my data at least my custom attributes are showing against all family members.

Can you confirm that the information is not showing as 'starburst' data also known as Unrecognised Data references. These occur on imported data.

Sabine

Possessions isn't a custom attribute.  Its a standard one.  I have tried this on my computer and they show up fine.  Can you check which version of Family Historian you are running (click on About Family Historian on the Help menu)?  If its earlier than 2.3.1, I would suggest upgrading.  You can download a free upgrade to 2.3.1 from this website (see downloads) or from http://www.family-historian.co.uk/downloads.  If you do upgrade, does that fix the problem?

Simon and Jane,

I'm using 2.3.1. (bought it about ten days ago).

Trying again, I was just now able to reproduce the problem, and narrow it down - will leave it up to you to judge whether it is a problem, after all.

I defined, for example, a custom attribute named 'Military service'.
In one case, I only wanted to note that the individual did serve, and the year and source, but - lacking additional information -, I did NOT fill in the 'main' field, i.e. the one which is on the same line as the event tag in the Records window.
Only in this case of the blank main field, the entry finally is missing in the Family Group Sheet.
When the main field IS filled in, the complete entry does appear in the printout.

Now that I know how to handle events/attributes like this, it's OK with me - it was just confusing at first view.

Thanks for caring

Sabine
professional genealogist in Munich, Germany