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Thanks Mike, I just tried that by saving a custom diagram type from one project and basically selecting that diagram type via the view option from a new project and it all worked well. With this I can create several custom diagram types that I want as standard ways to display a chart and can easily ...

Mike,

Is there a way to save my selected options not as a defaults or a particular chart but as a general set of options that I may want to use later?

I can see times where I may want the option of quickly selecting various options depending on what task I am performing or for whom.

redvanman - I looked at your link and I was able to create an exclude list which included just the fact that I wanted to have ignored. This worked out well. I can easily alter the list at any time to exclude others or revert to the original settings. Mike - I tried your suggestion and it worked but ...

In several other applications I was able to take a fact type and easily make it appear or disappear in various outputs. TMG and Rootsmagic both have that capability. Is there any such capability in FH? I have created a custom fact that is only used with charts and I don't want it to be used in narra...

Mike,

Thank you.

I tried both methods and both worked. I will probably stay with the more complex statement since it makes the conditions under boxes easier to read.

FH continues to show it is the more robust of genealogical software packages.

First what I want is to be able to track genetic medical history by changing the characteristics of a box based on a keywords in the note field. I am able to do this by editing the chart options and select boxes and add the following condition statements: =ContainsText(%INDI.EVEN-MEDHIST.NOTE2%,"Can...

Mike,

Thank you that worked. I don't think I selected Census-2 but I reset everything and I was able to find the census data in FH. Like you said it was buried somewhat but all is well now.

I am relatively new at FH and very new trying to use AS. I used AS to enter a census record and I entered all the data in every column on the 1920 and 1930 census. I used auto to have that data entered into the text field for the census, I then saved it and FH and AS were aware that the other had ma...

John,

Thank you that worked perfectly.

I am trying to create a chart that will show all the people who have a genetically transferred disease. So far I have been able to create a new fact and add that fact to each person who shows this disease. I have also manually set a new flag for each of these people. On the chart I show the note for...

I probably put too much in my original question. It was not about either the EVEN tag or the importing errors. The question was once FH imports my data what can I do about the sentence that is generated? With a fact type I would edit the sentence structure in that fact type. What are the possibiliti...

I am getting ready to do a full import of my genealogical database from Rootsmagic 7. I have encountered the following situation, among others. I have several fact types that I have created and want to keep. I deleted many fact types that I did not need a specialized fact type for. I created a singl...

Mike, Thanks for your response. ( I thought this already went but I see that it did not - sorry) I obviously made some error if my results disagree with yours. I will use your latest code and see if I can manage to do that without making mistakes. I deal with mostly US Census records so my cutoff ye...

Mike, Re: Sentence structures - thanks for the response • Post by tatewise » 28 May 2020 21:28 You may be expecting too much from the report writer Sentence Templates and there are several scenarios that you should take into account. 1. You may get the necessary indent by inserting tab characters af...

I have only been using FH since early January so if these questions are overly simplistic I apologize. When importing my existing data into FH I get many errors, not the fault of FH, so I am using my time to clean up my existing data so the import will go as clean as possible. In that effort I also ...

Thank you Valkrider and Tatewise. I suspected as much but wanted to make sure of this. I'm sure I can come up with an automated way to do this. I will need to study your plugin capabilities. Both FH and RM are due out with new versions so I hope I can wait for that. The problem may just disappear or...

Since I became a user of FH 6 IN December I have been working on getting my current genealogy into FH 6. I have run into one error on import that I can't seem to get a consistent answer on. (not from FHUG members) My export contains the following code: 0 HEAD 1 SOUR RootsMagic 2 NAME RootsMagic 2 VE...

I researched FH 6 about 5 years ago but was in the middle of a conversion so decided to stay where I was. In December 2019 there were hints that if you bought FH 6 then there would be an automatic upgrade to 7 when released. Since late December I have been a licensed user of FH 6 and I am re familia...

This post is somewhat old but I was wondering if FH has tried to write to the Adobe PSB format which will handle images of 300K pixels by 300K pixels which would create an image at 300 dpi of 1000 inches by 1000 inches. Certainly large enough for anything I have. All my PDF saves have resulted in 4 ...

About 20 month ago i installed FH version 6 to see if FH would solve some of my issues. I had already converted my TMG database to Rootsmagic two years earlier. I realized then that I had a lot of cleaning up of data that was not caused by any software product. Just my overzealous use of TMG. At som...

When I evaluated FH 6 there was no direct import from Rootsmagic therefore I needed to use GEDCOM. I have been off TMG for too long a time to go back there. If there is a direct import now that would certainly be helpful. I have looked to find the old files from January and it appears that when I un...

Mike Thanks for the response. The issue of the trial is as I suspected. I read the response on sentence structure you pointed me to and it appears that that is very similar to the TMG methodology. I am assuming that the GEDCOM transfer has not been changed so that I would need to adjust for Roles an...

I migrated from TMG to Rootsmagic in 2014. At the beginning of 2016 I spent about 2 weeks looking at FH from an external view and then installed the trial version and spent the full 30 days evaluating. At that time I found too many issues to resolve, but I was really impressed with many features. So...

I have seen several discussions about formatting the output of reports to include many word processor type functions. In TMG I used formatting options and field names on many many of my facts. It worked great but when I needed to port my data to another application there were issues beyond belief. I...

Thank you tatewise. I tried this and it solved the problem. It is so simple if you know the product well. I will learn and I am just starting to move data from RM7. I would like to get it all correct the first time if possible since I did not when moving from TMG to RM7. Good opportunity to clean up...