Family Historian User Group

Columns displayed as item data (Records) update dynamically, but text and numerical data don’t. It creates a limitation in using either plugins or built-in menu options to tabulate detailed data (such as source citations) to check for consistency or omissions, as the display has to be regenerated wh...

The challenge in drafting a new Wish List item will be to recognise that output from either plugins or FH menu options can never be completely consistent with Query or Record Window displays, as the latter are fully dynamic and reflect changes in the underlying data, while the former are largely sta...

I think Lorna's interpretation is correct. In fact, that is the method usually advised here for sorting on multiple columns - sort in order, least significant first, and the previous sequence is maintained. Tested by sorting on birth place, which is in the middle of my records window, then by death ...

Thanks for that. There isn't anything in particular that sticks out as a likely cause. I didn't ask where your default Project Folder is located, but it might be worth checking if the problem still occurs if you locate the RM file in the Public subfolder within your project folder. If that doesn't f...

Agree - these simple citations are all that’s required . Remember that the primary purpose of a citation is to identify where the source was/can be obtained for verification. It is not for reproducing the contents of the source. Simple versus detailed citations is a choice of personal style and pref...

That's an odd one. It is suggesting that the error is with the fhSQL library that processes the RM file, but it's not one I've seen before. Is this the first time you have used the plugin, or has it worked normally up until now? If it has suddenly stopped working, has anything changed on your system...

Another option for this type of change is to edit the GEDCOM file directly using a plain text editor (even Windows Notepad is fine) once you have changed the actual file names. It's only suitable if there is a distinct string that doesn't occur elsewhere in your project. In my case, all my 1939 Medi...

Your background sounds similar to mine - BASIC on the HP85 (anybody else remember those?) and SQL for an Oracle database in the 1980s, then Access/VBA, all as incidental elements of a technology R&D career, plus some largely self-taught C/C++ for fun to dabble with a “proper” language using the ...

You've left one question unanswered - this type of plugin is how most authors start. It's only a handful of lines, and a good introduction to the basics. The plugin help gives a very readable introduction, and if you have VBA experience, you're partway there already. Any enthusiasm for dipping a toe...

Note also that the Short Footnote is grossly inadequate if you have two people with the same name, of course! Dates and places presumably ought to appear there as well. Playing Devil’s Advocate ;), why? If the Fact is John Smith, born 1 Jan 1923, Somewhere, Somewhereshire, and the citation is to Ci...

I take a “necessary and sufficient” approach, rather than following an arbitrary standard, with a limited Source Title (what, when, who, where) followed by a transcript of the key text. GRO Birth Certificate: 1869 - Arthur Poole, Ranton, Staffordshire 17 Sep 1869 - Ranton, Arthur, Boy, f = (blank), ...

You’re asking the wrong people. We’re just ordinary users like yourself and have no insight to CP’s logic and future plans.

If they’re not to your liking, I suggest you ask CP directly using their Support Ticket system.

True, we should probably settle on “non-Latin” as the preferred term, as it has a recognised definition. “Common” is a bit subjective, and “foreign” is meaningless when the author and reader may be of different nationalities.

Minor clarification, which I’m sure I’ve made before… :) Plugins need the additional UTF functions to process non-Latin characters, not “accented or foreign ones”. It’s not necessary for the common Western European diacritics, and what’s “foreign” viewed from a desk in Devon or Cheshire may not be f...

Another possibility is that it will convert all the names in one pass, but is only capable of displaying some of them. In that case, there is no option to review the rest of the names. I'm away from the desk until this evening so can't review the code to see what it is doing, but I agree that it sho...

Ah - ok. Assuming the plugin does actually change the listed names, the solution would be to delete the truncated last entry, then repeat with successive plugin runs until all the names are converted. Ideally, the plugin should identify why it has failed, but this type of simple plugin doesn't neces...

That is how it is designed to work. The plugin description in the Plugins Window tells you that it "allows over-ride at runtime by prompting the converted surnames for confirmation." Options for this type of simple plugin are rather limited: Make all changes unconditionally. Quick and simp...

I have been reviewing my Commonwealth War Graves Commission sources (which have their own custom template) to add the original documents that are being uploaded. Individual sources can support either a standard Burial fact if there is a known grave (e.g. shot down air-crew), or a custom Memorial fac...

Or the via Windows version - don’t be fooled by the name, it works on Macs and Linux too

Interesting to see those differences - I have bought several small SSDs to either revive an older Windows or Linux system or in a USB3 caddy for Raspberry Pi, and the going rate for a mainstream brand (Crucial, Kingston, etc) is £25 for 250 GB and about £40 for 500 GB. It’s not the latest or fastest...

Playing devil's advocate, there is no reason why projects can't be on the small local drive and media elsewhere. Remember that the built-in FH Backup is really just a backstop for those that don't have robust general backup protocols. For many users, backing up FH project and media data is just anot...

Yes, it is not advisable to have various Projects in different locations. Why not? I have a live FH Projects folder for actual research projects, and a second FH Projects (Development) folder for test projects. It works very well, and I can easily flip between live and test projects using the Recen...

Has anything else changed on your system recently, such as a new video card or display resolution? If not, it might be one of those odd instabilities that's only fixed by fully backing up your data and settings and reinstalling FH, but let's see if anybody else chips in with further diagnostic sugge...

I won't reopen the "why do you want to do this?" question, as that was discussed at some length only a few days ago. The answer to your current "how" question is actually quite straightforward: Create a new folder off the root using a short name, such as \FH Open your current pro...

Tamara’s e-mail contact is still enabled, but I think that was the intention, and relying on spam filter to get rid of the rubbish.

My experience is that routine e-mail notifications (which I enable for threads related to my plugins) usually get through, but occasionally end up in Junk Mail.