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Hi Erik. It is a common mistake to confuse Note records with local Note fields within records. Note records are independant shareable Notes and listed in the Records Window on the Notes tab. Local Note fields are held within Individual and other records local to such as each Fact. Open a Property Bo...

IMO "that the backup destination cannot be a Unicode name" is too restrictive. It inhibits users with a Windows Account name that includes certain accented letters, i.e. C:\Users\Błażej\... It prevents any folder in the path having non-ASCII characters. So users may have to get creative to...

What do you think the type(...) functions return?

How do you think they compare with '' or ' ' ?

Doesn't the Registration District actually identify the Registration Office where the event was registered? So instead of Registration District perhaps the Address could be the Registration Office, which might be a more accurate indication of where the BMD event was registered and quite distinct fro...

As far as I can tell the sort is behaving correctly according to your coding. i.e. It primarily sorts on PTG and SIDE. But if those both have the same values then it sorts on GEN. Please give an example of _tbl values that have not sorted corrected showing the actual sorted order produced by the plu...

It sounds like you have added another Parent - Child family relationship but with no parents. Open your father's Property Box and check the All tab. Has it three Parents family entries as shown below? The first two identifying your birth mother and your adoptive parents. The third has no parents lin...

It would be easier to replace '' with 0 and sort by numbers. Since, tonumber(...) returns nil for non-numbers it is quite easy to perform that substitution. e.g. return ( tonumber(a.PTG) or 0 ) < ( tonumber(b.PTG) or 0 ) Thus if PTG is a number then that value is tested, else if it is '' then tonumb...

OK, but using tostring(...) does not resolve that and results in non-numeric sorting as I explained. Apart those empty strings are all other values actually numeric, i.e. 123 and not text "123"? Trying to sort numbers and empty text strings is unlikely to be straightforward as they are dif...

Thanks Adrian, that is the 'normal' extra spaces after dots & commas scenario.
I should have made it clearer I was referring to the reverse where the space vanishes after a dot when followed by style codes such as <i> or <b>.

Why are you using the tostring(...) function? That will sort alphanumerically as text, i.e. "1", "11", "12", "13", etc, will sort before "2", "21", "22", "23", etc. Since the values are all numbers just use a.GEN < b.GEN...

Welcome to your first FHUG posting. See the FHUG Knowledge Base > Recording Children with Foster/Adoptive Parents and How to Handle People With Multiple Names . The usual convention is to enter the Birth Name as the Primary Name and Adoptive Name as an Alternate Name. But the reverse is not unreason...

To be honest, although we have found a workaround, I don't think the surrounding chevrons should be necessary.
Try reporting the original symptoms to CP and see what they say.

I admit that is a bit strange and rings a small bell at the back of my mind thast it has happened before. Anyway, those spacing issues are associated with the top level item handling that automatically should put a space after each symbol such as dor (.) and comma (,). The solution that works for me...

You are correct Steve. There is no such expression that is infallible. The worse situtaion to cope with is where a distant relative on your father's side married a distant relative on your mother's side, in which case everyone is on both sides! Think about it. It is easy using the IsAncestor(...) fu...

Dear Tatewise, Your reply perfectly illustrates the issues raised by a standard which cannot be followed by developers due to basic weaknesses. I'm not sure whether you mean the weaknesses are in the GEDCOM standard or in the developers! :lol: In my experience of writing my Export Gedcom File plugi...

Welcome to the FHUG. IMO you have misunderstood the ASSO tag definition in GEDCOM 7.0. It does allow the ASSO tag to be applied to facts as well as individuals. See Page 38 where the ASSO tag is shown subordinate to the BAPM event to associate @I2@ as the clergyman: 0 @I1@ INDI 1 ASSO @VOID@ 2 PHRAS...

To prevent magic characters having their gsub(...) magic effect they must be prefixed with an escape % character. Prior to UTF-8 the code "(%W)" could be used but now that may not work if the sting has UTF-8 symbols/accents. So now the code "([%^%$%(%)%%%.%[%]%*%+%-%?])" must be ...

What you describe means that I have to re-enter all the data into the new template, even though only the name has changed. Is there no way to split off certain sources under a new template name? No you don't have to re-enter all the data held in the Source record. As long as the metafields have not...

I'm not sure what you're doing to change "instance of the old template" because templates don't have instances. You must use Tools > Source Template Definitions... and then Clone... the original definition but give the clone a new Template Name probably including the name of the country. F...

You'll need to explain exactly what you are tailoring in the templates to suit each country. Presumably, you expect to end up with as many templates as countries? The complications involve adding/removing metafields. If a Source record uses a metafield in the orginal template that gets removed from ...

Hi Margaret, there is a common misconception regarding Individual Record Flags and Diagram Icons. They are two quite independant features of FH. See FHUG KB > Using Icons . Setting a Record Flag does NOT automatically cause a Diagram Icon to apppear under the Individual's Box. Also, many different t...

Thank you for giving it a run, but odd that it failed on copying the files, since that always worked, and it was the Windows Registry export that was under investigation. There is no hurry to debug.

It has taken a while for me to get around to updating my legacy plugin for the latest Linux/WINE features. However, the plugin Backup and Restore Family Historian Settings - V3-6+1 is available via the link below. It now inhibits being run in standalone GEDCOM mode and uses exactly the same script f...

The colon is nothing to do with the RootsMagic Import (project) Fact Set. It indicates that the fact is a custom Attribute ( not an Event ) and expects a value after the colon, which can be entered in the box to the right of the label Second Boer War: in the pane below the Facts list. When you creat...

To amend Marriage details you need to open the Family record Property box. Do that on the Focus Window by clicking the blue Marriage bar that runs across under the spouse boxes. Then on the Facts tab shown in the Family record on the right the Marriage Events are listed. Use the large red X to delet...