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by NickWalker
21 Mar 2024 04:31
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: Question about user-template configurations
Replies: 16
Views: 234

Re: Question about user-template configurations

This used to be the case but later versions of AS allow you to select the Key Person in the census using the key button on the toolbar.
by NickWalker
20 Mar 2024 22:41
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: Question about user-template configurations
Replies: 16
Views: 234

Re: Question about user-template configurations

You are correct. There are no functions to do that. Are you not able to use KEYPERSON for your 'person of interest'?
by NickWalker
20 Mar 2024 19:50
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: Question about user-template configurations
Replies: 16
Views: 234

Re: Question about user-template configurations

Here's a screen shot to illustrate. Birth and Death use the same source template, but I've changed the 'Region field' on each to show that they use different settings:
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by NickWalker
20 Mar 2024 19:40
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: Question about user-template configurations
Replies: 16
Views: 234

Re: Question about user-template configurations

Mike; It's very simple. I don't want to rewrite my template logic just to use A.S. It isn't designed to switch the way fields are mapped based upon the A.S. {EVENTTYPE} value. For Births I have to map certain A.S. fields to those in my template. For Deaths, I need to map other fields. It sounds lik...
by NickWalker
20 Mar 2024 19:36
Forum: General Usage
Topic: New PC
Replies: 7
Views: 214

Re: New PC

I would seriously review whether Laplink can automatically migrate installed programs such FH and AS, etc, from PC to PC bearing in mind FH also installs C++ and Printer applications. The general advice is to reinstall applications such as that from scratch using installation media. Yes I wouldn't ...
by NickWalker
20 Mar 2024 19:21
Forum: General Usage
Topic: New PC
Replies: 7
Views: 214

Re: New PC

Trying to stick 'on topic' by mentioning FH a lot... I use OneDrive synced across several computers and this holds my FH projects and all other data. So purchasing a new computer or installing onto a new computer is no longer a daunting thing because when I add my Microsoft account to the new comput...
by NickWalker
20 Mar 2024 18:58
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: Question about user-template configurations
Replies: 16
Views: 234

Re: Question about user-template configurations

Sorry, Mike. Thought it was clear from the context in my post. I have an FH-7 user-defined template that could work for one or more of the events for which A.S. is designed to handle. However; some of the fields in my user-template need to be mapped to different A.S. variables in order to be used f...
by NickWalker
20 Mar 2024 13:40
Forum: Media
Topic: Adding Media files.
Replies: 63
Views: 1235

Re: Adding Media files.

Thank you all who replied to my query about Media files. At the moment as I have already added an enormous amount of data to my projects I think that I will try to add the media files to the Sources and when, and if, I have to enter completely new data I will try with Ancestral Sources. (Does that ...
by NickWalker
14 Mar 2024 09:05
Forum: New Wish List Requests
Topic: Tabulating Templated Source data fields
Replies: 13
Views: 368

Re: Tabulating Templated Source data fields

I'd support this proposal. It sounds very useful.
by NickWalker
13 Mar 2024 19:03
Forum: Media
Topic: Adding Media files.
Replies: 63
Views: 1235

Re: Adding Media files.

The problem with adding them to the Facts is remembering all the Facts that were derived from the media. The worst-case scenario is Census records which usually yield a Census event for each member of the household, plus an Occupation fact for most of them, and possibly a Birth event for some of th...
by NickWalker
13 Mar 2024 18:05
Forum: Media
Topic: Adding Media files.
Replies: 63
Views: 1235

Re: Adding Media files.

How are you adding the media files? You should be attaching them as media to the various facts and not to the individual. See this article in the knowledgebase Getting Started You may be better off using Ancestral Sources to enter these type of facts. Yes, I have been adding them to the individual....
by NickWalker
12 Mar 2024 15:06
Forum: Web Site Usage
Topic: Wish List Search
Replies: 4
Views: 143

Re: Wish List Search

It's working OK for me. Maybe just a temporary glitch?
by NickWalker
08 Mar 2024 15:11
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: Question about scope of records handled by A.S.
Replies: 35
Views: 2292

Re: Question about scope of records handled by A.S.

My, but this thread has wandered... :D I'm still developing a modified Strathclyde template set to meet my needs and had just intended to check with Nick about whether I'd likely addressed all those that really needed to interface with A.S. I hadn't expected my example citation to generate such a d...
by NickWalker
07 Mar 2024 08:42
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: Question about scope of records handled by A.S.
Replies: 35
Views: 2292

Re: Question about scope of records handled by A.S.

From what I've observed; it appears that A.S. was designed primarily to handle census returns and the info derived from civil/church registers, but not really intended for use with other typically consulted BMD sources like the GRO & FreeBMD Indices. Am I correct? If so; I "think" I'v...
by NickWalker
03 Mar 2024 21:40
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: Questions about AS Keywords and User Templates
Replies: 6
Views: 208

Re: Questions about AS Keywords and User Templates

I discovered that the Keyword button on the source template editor does not appear to inject the keyword name into the currently highlighted field. Unfortunately; when I then typed it in manually, I didn't capitalized the keyword. When I discovered that the keywords are case-sensitive and fixed the...
by NickWalker
03 Mar 2024 21:04
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: Questions about AS Keywords and User Templates
Replies: 6
Views: 208

Re: Questions about AS Keywords and User Templates

Hi Gary KEYPERSON has a lot of functionality for non-census types but for the census source type it was really just designed to have a few sub-tags that people might want to include in a source title. So it just supports various name formats, ID, CustomID and Gender. I could potentially add support ...
by NickWalker
01 Mar 2024 17:11
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: 1939 Register labelled as Census - why?
Replies: 11
Views: 389

Re: 1939 Register labelled as Census - why?

The 1939 register is really a census in all but name but for a different purpose. A census is an official survey of the population of a country. In AS by default the 1939 register template uses the census fact but you can change this in the template (Tools->Census Templates): you could have it creat...
by NickWalker
27 Feb 2024 21:24
Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
Topic: [Wish List Item 635] Better ways to find where records are used
Replies: 28
Views: 1920

Re: Better ways to find where records are used

Yes I agree with this. I added my comment because I wanted to clarify how context menus are used, but really it is up to Calico Pie to decide how to implement this. Although I can also see it would sometimes be helpful for them to understand the wish more clearly. So perhaps the wish-list item could...
by NickWalker
27 Feb 2024 20:46
Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
Topic: [Wish List Item 635] Better ways to find where records are used
Replies: 28
Views: 1920

Re: Better ways to find where records are used

Right-click context menus are generally associated with an item being selected - a text box being edited, an image being selected, a file, etc. It makes sense for the records window to have this option in the right-click context menu for that reason. But I really can't see how right-clicking on an e...
by NickWalker
22 Feb 2024 21:15
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Diagram - Census data
Replies: 7
Views: 336

Re: Diagram - Census data

If you just want to record a single person in a household and don't want to use John's method to record everyone else in the household, there is nothing to stop you just adding the one individual to the census entry in AS. AS will still help you to transcribe the entry, will still help you to link a...
by NickWalker
21 Feb 2024 20:29
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: Log folder error message
Replies: 3
Views: 145

Re: Log folder error message

Hi Wanda My guess is that security software on your computer is stopping AS from accessing your documents. Take a look at this Knowledge Base page . The 3rd expandable section of the page describes how to resolve the issue if Windows security is blocking you. The 4th if you use Norton security. Rega...
by NickWalker
21 Feb 2024 20:24
Forum: General Usage
Topic: IMPORTING FROM TRANSCRIBED CENSUS DATA
Replies: 5
Views: 430

Re: IMPORTING FROM TRANSCRIBED CENSUS DATA

Sorry no that isn't something that can be done with AS.
by NickWalker
20 Feb 2024 17:47
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: 1939 Register
Replies: 17
Views: 1021

Re: 1939 Register

Please can you paste a screenshot showing your settings on the Census settings page under Tools and Options.
by NickWalker
20 Feb 2024 16:41
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: 1939 Register
Replies: 17
Views: 1021

Re: 1939 Register

I would suggest it is a safety feature - as far as I recall, it has been there since I first started using AS some years ago!. Before AS updates the FH Gedcom, it takes a copy so that if there are any problems with the update there is a fallback solution. Personally, I have it set to only generate ...
by NickWalker
18 Feb 2024 11:45
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: AS death and burial input screens.. edit?
Replies: 5
Views: 350

Re: AS death and burial input screens.. edit?

The main screen in AS has a number of input boxes to enter data into and the majority of these will fill in fields within facts (for example occupation facts, residence facts, etc.) but there are inevitably items of data on a source that won't get stored in facts and so these are just recorded in th...