{"id":10477,"date":"2020-06-30T12:58:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T12:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fhug.org.uk\/kb\/?post_type=kb_article&p=10477"},"modified":"2024-02-27T09:20:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T09:20:14","slug":"understanding-projects","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/kb-article\/understanding-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ProjectIf you are new to using Family Historian an\/or migrating from another product, it is advisable to understand what projects are and why they are useful. This tutorial is based on \u0192h<\/span><\/span> Version 4 but the features are much the same for later versions.<\/p>\n

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Simon’s Explanation of Projects<\/h3>\n
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Taken From: General Forum Topic To upgrade or not? by Simon Orde posted: 13\/05\/09 12:28:15<\/em><\/p>\n

There do seem to be a lot of misunderstandings about projects, so perhaps this may help:<\/p>\n

FH has always lets you put your GEDCOM files wherever you want and still does. The only difference is that if you create a project, it will maintain the GEDCOM file in the folder that is created for that project. In the past because it had no project folder to put them in, it was forced to store a small number of settings files (files that kept track of your recently-used settings – e.g. website settings) in tucked away places – something that people (understandably) didn’t like. Thanks to project folders, it now has somewhere much better to put them.<\/p>\n

You can put your project folders wherever you want to put them. By default, FH will put them in the “Family Historian Projects” folder – but that’s just a default. You can change that to wherever you want. You do not need to keep all your projects in one folder anyway. You can have them where you want and use “Browse for Project” on the “More Tasks” button on the Project Window to open projects located anywhere.<\/p>\n

FH does not put your images in its project folder unless you ask it to. It’s entirely up to you. You can keep all image files there, none, or a mixture. You can switch between keeping media files in your project folder, or storing them externally at any time (using the “Work with External File Links” tool). If you have your own system for managing your media in structured folders, you can either continue to use that by simply not copying the media into your project folder; or, you can if you wish let FH copy all your multimedia files into its project folder and continue to maintain your own system for organising media within the project’s media folder. Every time you add a picture into the project you are effectively given the choice of (a) whether you want to copy the picture file into the project folder and (b) if so, do you want to decide where it is to go in the ‘Media’ subfolder, or would you prefer to just leave it to FH.<\/p>\n

Within each project folder there is a subfolder called ‘Public’. The idea behind this is provides a convenient place<\/glwrap> for users to store any other files of their own (including subfolders etc) that they want to keep together with all their other project data. Obviously – like all the other features – you don’t need to use this; but it’s there if you want to.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Project Benefits<\/h3>\n

There are several advantages in using Projects, and few (if any) draw backs.<\/p>\n

The following features are only supported within Projects:<\/p>\n