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Introduction<\/h2>\n

An Icon is a small image file that will sit against a box on a diagram .Some users feel they are an excellent way of keeping visual track of\u00a0 information, such as what census records have been associated with people, immigration facts, death during infancy, twins, or work in progress.<\/p>\n

How Can I Create an Icon<\/h2>\n

The Diagram Icons Downloads collection<\/a> offers Icons to identify facts and other data items. Some use National Flags to show birth places or immigration, which on diagrams are helpful as visual aids during a census trace exercise.<\/p>\n

If you can’t find a suitable Icon in our Downloads, it is worthwhile to try to edit one of the .bmp<\/code> files supplied in \u0192h<\/span><\/span> using an Image Editor such as PAINT (on most Windows PCs), or Adobe Photoshop, etc.<\/p>\n

These Icon files are located in the\u00a0Family Historian Program Data Folder<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Icons\u00a0<\/code>sub-folder. It is advisable to add any new Icons either to that sub-folder, or to your\u00a0Family Historian Projects\u00a0folder.<\/p>\n

Using Icons<\/h2>\n

Icons are managed in Diagrams by opening Diagram > Options<\/a>, navigating to the Boxes<\/em> tab and using the <<Add\/Edit\/Delete>> Condition buttons.<\/p>\n

To select a\u00a0Flag\u00a0as a\u00a0Condition, click the\u00a0<<Add Condition<\/em>\u00a0button, choose\u00a0Record Flag<\/em>, and select the\u00a0Flag\u00a0from the list. A tab for that\u00a0Flag\u00a0will be added to the\u00a0Record Flag\u00a0pane below the\u00a0Conditions.<\/p>\n

A Condition can also be an Expression that involves Data References or Functions. So a Flag is no longer needed to define a Condition associated with basic GEDCOM data.<\/p>\n

To choose the\u00a0Icon, first select the Condition\u00a0Record Flag<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0Expression<\/em>, then click the\u00a0Edit Features\u2026<\/em>\u00a0button. In the\u00a0Box Features<\/em>\u00a0window, tick the\u00a0Icon\u00a0<\/em>option and\u00a0<<Select\u00a0the\u00a0Icon<\/em>\u00a0file.<\/p>\n

Note that other Features can also be chosen to depict the Condition, e.g. changing the Text Colour or the Box Fill.<\/p>\n

Worked Examples<\/h2>\n

As a simple example, assume that an Icon is desired to depict every Retirement\u00a0Event, and a Y presented in an Individual Record Window Column.<\/p>\n

Simply add a Condition Expression of %INDI.RETI%<\/code> and select the Icon as described above. With this technique the Icon is always factual, because its Condition is the existence of the\u00a0 Retirement Event itself.<\/p>\n

To obtain more precise Conditions use an\u00a0Expression\u00a0based on the examples below, assisted by the\u00a0<<Insert Data Ref\u2026<\/em>\u00a0button.<\/p>\n