Multimedia for PLACES

ptl12 · Post by **ptl12** » 06 Sep 2009 09:00

I like the Multimedia features in V4 and have used them a lot. In my case, Residence is an important attribute, because the places where my ancestors lived, such as 'Highoredish Farm' often appear as the same residence for different families over the generations; so I like to have pictures of such places attached to the residence. But at the moment, if I say that Person X resided at 'Highoredish Farm', I can add a picture to that residence, but if person Z later resided at Highoredish Farm, the picture does not automatically appear in the multimedia box, and I have to link it again. Is this how FH has to work, or am I using it wrongly, or is it a problem with entities such as PLACE not having their own multimedia attributes?

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 06 Sep 2009 10:56

There is a wish list item for this, but for now you are doing it the best way.

martinpbudd · Post by **martinpbudd** » 14 Oct 2009 23:28

I have a similar problem. I have recently visiting the ancestral homeland and taken photos of churches etc. I now want to link the photo to the relevant folks. Does your reply mean I will have to plough through nearly 1000 people and link it one by one or is there a way to select all the people to be linked (via a query or list) and do it all in one go to each photo.

ChrisBowyer · Post by **ChrisBowyer** » 15 Oct 2009 06:17

The problem is that FH doesn't recognise places a objects in the data model, so failing a major new version, you can't really do anything like this in any natural way.

You could (somewhat unnaturally) create a source record called 'Pictures of Highoredish Farm' and link that to all references to it.

I just have a folder somewhere in my documents for pictures of places in the tree, and sub folders named for each place. It isn't integrated with FH but to a degree it does the job.

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