Family Historian User Group

I think this is the first time that I’ve posted a draft but had zero response on either the principle of what the plugin is doing or how it does it in practice. Rather than leaving it here where visibility is probably the main limitation, I’ve uploaded a virtually unchanged script to the Plugin Stor...

No further issues have been raised, so the plugin is now available in the Plugin Store, and includes an updated help file.

The links earlier in this thread will be deleted in due course.

Now updated to prompt saving your project prior to calling AS.

Speaking for myself, I’ve never run an FH backup, and don’t anticipate ever doing so. What else on your PC needs backing up? Personal documents? Family photos? My FH data and media are part of my routine backups (three copies of different age - cloud, NAS and external HDD), so all I need to do in FH...

Not an application that I am familiar with, but I set it up on my Linux box to see how it managed importing the generic GEDCOM file and media from the draft Export Public GEDCOM File plugin. Basic tree data seemed ok, but it didn't support importing the media. It creates OBJE records ok, but seems t...

I have now updated the draft plugin to version 0.5 and updated the link in the first post in this thread. Export Public GEDCOM File.png The automatic removal of private individuals and related information has been tweaked to make it more thorough. This automatic editing of a tree on the fly is one o...

Here.

Mike’s the other fellow…

It’s a common misconception that GEDCOM enables transfer of detailed trees between different apps. Leaving aside the basic who, what, where and when that generally transfer well, there are probably more differences than compatibilities between apps. That’s why we always advise that FH is the master,...

Early adopters are much more likely to be contributors to this thread who want to try it out. I've got a couple of other pending updates to process so I'll do them all together in a week or two rather than rush one now only for something else to crop up straight after !

That’s worth adding to the next update, but it’s no different to calling AS directly, which is what the plugin emulates.

My logic would be that general plugin settings are saved in the system plugin data folder, so we are only talking about project-specific settings. A standalone GEDCOM file is not a project by definition, so do not either load or save project-specific settings when not running in a project. The FH ti...

There is very much a consensus view here that having two parallel store plugins that perform virtually the same function, but just have different names and menus, is counter-productive. However, having read all the different use cases and suggestions offered here, I am persuaded that a plugin that s...

Sorry, didn't reply earlier as I wanted to play some more before passing on details. It happens when there is no defined GEDCOM file, so can be replicated simply by File > Gedcom File Tasks > New Gedcom File, then calling the plugin prior to the file being saved. AS doesn't have a "create GEDCO...

The inner workings of FH7 licencing are a mystery to me (and while CP will hopefully give you individually tailored advice, they are unlikely to discuss details of exactly how it works in my experience). I know from personal experience that if you reimage the same hardware, you have to re-nominate t...

Brief question - I thought this thread might provoke a good discussion, so thanks to folks for chipping in. Reading the various workflows described here, I can’t see any that are not addressed by either a simple launcher that fires up AS with the current user/project then clears off out of the way, ...

Compared to the thousands of downloads for my plugin the number of users reporting being confused is tiny. There does not seem to be an overwhelming demand from users for the new plugin name. IMO compared to all the other FH & AS features that could be improved it is not worth the effort. Worth...

That's correct. The OEM licence is tied to the motherboard. The more expensive retail licence does not have that restriction.

That's what the KB page is for Trevor. I'm not sure such a short and simple plugin is worth adding to the store, but the KB gives the code for doing it yourself. Step by step instructions are in this thread a few posts back for users unfamiliar with the FH plugin editor.

As I had previously said, I have updated the KB page from this discussion, so everything is in one place rather than assembled piecemeal from various forum postings or update listings, along with a reworded summary of what can be done directly from AS (just setting the default project), from configu...

Before I forget, there is another minor issue with the plugin that came to light when I was testing AS options yesterday. The plugin works normally with a standalone GEDCOM file, but not if run after creating a new GEDCOM file, crashing with the following error: Plugin error.png The simple plugin op...

I don't normally map drive letters to network shares, as I'm used to accessing them from the Linux side as well (which mounts network shares in a local directory), but I tried to replicate this yesterday by copying a project to a network share. For me, the plugin worked normally whether the share wa...

I debugged Mike’s plugin to determine what the parameters are, so I’ll update the KB list with the full source options later.

I thought it likely that they were somewhere, but guess that’s what happens when information is in two different places. I searched the actual AS help file and didn’t find any reference to them, but didn’t search the KB. It’s still worth tabulating them in one place and describing the simple plugin ...

I think the core theme of this thread is coming to a natural conclusion. I don't detect any enthusiasm from the plugin author for either changing the name or facilitating the replacement of the Ancestral Sources Data Entry plugin with new streamlined option optimised for new users, so without their ...

To follow up on both Colin and Nick's comments, I can't get AS to load in Linux WINE 9.0 either in either 32-bit or 64-bit mode, so perhaps with W11 being 64-bit only and 32-bit systems disappearing from the new market well over a decade ago, we don't need the 32-bit version any longer. If it's sign...