Family Historian User Group

Yes I used Containtext(). Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a go,

Kim

I am using a general Query that finds a specified word in any text field in an Individual record, but it just gives me a list of the Individuals that are hits. I have recently run such a search and one of the hits was in an Individual record that is very large. I've scanned through the record lookin...

Hi, I'm trying to work out how to write a query which finds text in any field, and then displays the individuals who have this text in a field, and displays the field in which the text is found. I'm sure this must be a solved problem?

Thanks,

Kim

I think I reported it (long time ago now so can't be certain) - no idea if it has been fixed. But for my one-off import from Peditree I manually fixed the offending dates. Sorry this doesn't help you much,

Kim

Thanks very much Mike. Very helpful and thorough as always,

Kim

Unfortunately I can't be certain. It's complicated, but the bottom line is I cannot be sure. They were in the db, but when I used the older version of Map Life Facts I may well not have reached them when I abandoned the Geocoding part way through, once I'd got a feel for how it worked, so that I cou...

Makes sense,

Kim

I'm pretty sure the 4 are: 1 / Great Field; Green Marled Earth; Round Meadow; Croft at the Door; Riding Platt; Long Shutt; Calfe Croft; Little Marled Earth; Clough Field; Farmost Field; Middle Field; Field next the Wood and a piece of land called Cloughs or Wood; all in Blackley, Manchester, LAN, EN...

That worked a treat! Threw 4 warnings but carried on to complete the task. The common factor of the 4 troublesome places was their extreme length (eg including a long list of field names followed by their location), and in some cases ambiguity. Do you want me to send you the 4 offending places? Than...

OK, will do,
Kim

I believe that I set the option to store results in Place records straight away on first opening the Plugin, at the same time I put in the API key, and it worked for a couple of thousand Places and then threw the error, ie I tried to do it the way I wanted first time by reading up on all options bef...

Sorry I wasn't clear. I used the Backup and Restore FH Settings to port FH to my new laptop. I used an old version of Map Life Facts on my old laptop some time ago, but saved no results to my FH database. I don't recall needing an API key for that version of the Plugin. On the new laptop I have only...

I have recently bought a new laptop and transferred onto it (using your Plugin). I used an earlier version of the Plugin on my old laptop a while ago and it worked fine, but I didn't save the results as I wanted to regularise my Place records first. I think the only option I changed was to store the...

I caused the error, then closed and restarted the Plugin, and moved to the next unplotted place following the one shown when the error had previously occured. As soon as I moved to the next unplotted place the error was caused. I have some poorly formed Places, which I'm sure cannot be located, but ...

Having geocoded quite a few Places, I go this error message (below) and the Plugin stopped. Seems to be the next place to be geocoded that causes this (don't know how I can tell which this is), and it happens reproducibly. Any ideas? I downloaded the Plugin today so its the latest version, Thanks, K...

Putting an Expression into the Property Box Caption for Individuals works like a dream - thanks very much for the tip!

Kim

Thanks to both of you for your thoughtful advice. I have just discovered Fact Queries and will look further into these. I will also use expressions to condense *.PLAC entries into a single column for display in Query results (I'm especially thinking of the case where there is only one place associat...

Ah yes - that makes sense from a data entry perspective.,

Thanks,
Kim

Being a relatively new user of FH, most of my initial effort was to migrate data from another program and sort out how it appears and can be queried. Now I'm more in data entry mode I've found the controlled list of Places (ie Place Records) very powerful, and have started to use it in many Attribut...

Thanks Mike - nice to know I hadn't been missing something. I asked because I've only just discovered, that you can use an expression to select Rows in a Query!

Thanks for moving this - I always intended to put it in General Usage and must have failed,

Kim

"Customize Data Entry" is really useful. However, it would be even better if I could use an Expression to populate a field to be displayed, rather than just having to pick a single Data Reference. Is what I am trying to achieve possible already in some way I have not yet discovered? Thanks...

Work with Places is extremely useful. But for my particular challenge, the Plugin sounds good Mike. I'll give it a go,

Kim

For example I have a lot of Places in Prestwich cum Oldham parish, but I have phrased the name of the parish very inconsistently. To go through c500 place records and edit them each will take a long time. Easy in Notepad++. Doable with Find and Replace within FH, but you have explained why this is a...

Thanks Mike. I had thought that the Place Records list was dynamically created from the INDI and other records. But then I spotted the Place Records towards the end of the Gedcom file... I'll wind back to my saved database. The changes will take 10x longer within FH, but thats life. I've rather take...

I've made some edits in the Gedcom file to Places in Individual records, in order to regularise some county and parish names. But FH still includes the old Places which are no longer used in Individual records. Is there a way to make FH rebuild or refresh the Places record list? (I have a saved data...