Family Historian version 7 introduces the ability to set flags on Facts. You can mark them as one or more of:<\/p>\n
\n“It is possible to set a flag on events and attributes to indicate that a fact is a preferred<\/em> fact.\u00a0 For example, you may have recorded numerous occupations for a given person, but one of them may be the occupation that they were most closely associated with; and you may choose to mark this occupation as the preferred one, by setting the Preferred flag for that fact.\u00a0\u00a0 You can reference a preferred fact by using [preferred] as the index. e.g.:<\/p>\n
%INDI.OCCU[preferred]%<\/code><\/p>\nIf a given person has no occupation which has the Preferred flag set, this will return the first one.<\/p>\n
Sometimes you may want to just find a Preferred fact – that is, return nothing if there is no fact of that type with the Preferred flag set.\u00a0 To do that, you can use the [prefonly] index.\u00a0 e.g.<\/p>\n
%INDI.OCCU[prefonly]%<\/code><\/p>\nThis will match the first occupation which has the ‘Preferred’ flag set, or return nothing if there is no ‘Preferred’ occupation.<\/p>\n
The [preferred] and [prefonly] indices can only be used with facts (events or attributes).\u00a0 They are not valid in any other context.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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