Dear Dave,
Thank you got your message.
We are aware of this problem. The desired functionality will be part of a future FTB version.
Unfortunately, at the moment I cannot tell when will a version containing this functionality be available
but it is in our future planns.
If I need to clear formating out of a text from a WEB page I usually copy the text and first paste it in Notepad where it will become plain text and then I copy it from there.
I have also done this. But I was hoping for a more automated aproach. It seems that many people are using this format and it ends up forcing me to edit many many records to remove this formatting.
Is it possible to enhance the notes view in the FTB local software to be able to view the text and process these simple format codes?
I previously posted about frequent crashes when trying to update places. I was able to find a solution, i can change multiple place names at once i just dont use the program to automatically find the place name for me. I now use my browser and google to search myself and it can rename multiple entries at once. Somewhat annoying but it doesn't crash every time i change something.
When i complained before about residence and location information being placed into "Contact" when i put it under the label "Residence". I was told that i should create a custom fact called "Address" instead. Even though i was not happy with calling it an address because i know of quite a few situations where a persons address and residence are not the same thing, I did it anyway. Now i am again in the same situation that all of my "Residence" and "Address" information is still being placed under contact.
These are facts to me. I want to be able to see them easily while navigating around everyone in my tree. I dont want to have to hunt for this information. I have no interest in contacting someone that possibly passed away 200 years ago. I am not happy with this at all.
I am really getting frustrated with this because it isnt a simple to move contact information back to an event for around 15,000 people, again.
Ok this is the third day in a row i'm here looking for a solution, It's been about 2 weeks since i initially inquired for help.
Residence is a bad fact name. So i was told to use Address. That is a bad fact name too. What the heck am i supposed to do to put in a location for where a person has lived? I DO NOT want them listed under contact. I have no need to contact someone that has died in the year 1699. I want to see locations of the places these people have resided to help me search records related to where they have lived.
15,000 entries in my tree have all had their facts rearranged. I dont even want to think about how long it is going to take to move all fo that information back to where i want it.
What can i label the fact so that it stays where i want it?
A print screen of what? I'm not sure what you want to see a picture of.
I would enter a fact. Save everything. Close the program. Upon reopening the program, the facts would all be gone ffrom where i entered them and moved to the contact section.
I stopped using "Address" and "Residence" as a fact. Using the word "Location" worked. Now when i enter a known address from 1883 or whenever i can see it in the list of facts rather than having to scroll through the contacts section. Definitely makes things easier when i want to narrow down a search location for the census.
I don't intent to contact someone who died 500 years ago.
Thanks for posting this. I have hit the same snag. I can't believe they didn't seem to understand what you were talking about and I'm even more amazed more people haven't raised this issue. Here's my go at explaining the problem - just in case another perplexed soul tries to find help online.
"I have created a custom fact field called Residence (under the Residence category). I want to use it for recording the addresses at which relatives (mostly deceased) lived during their lifetimes. I also want it to display in reports I create in the same way as other facts." Unfortunately Family Tree Builder does not like the custom field names Residence or Address and automatically converts my entry into a Contact Address at the same time removing my fact entry. This is no good to me."
Thank you for writing and we appreciate your patience regarding this matter.
I understand that you have some issues with the fact entries and "Residence" - i've already made a suggestion to our developers to fix this as you are right, some would like to show the information of the residence on the fact list.
However, there is a work-around you can take - in the "Contact" tab there is an option to input an address. If you have more than one address you can choose to add an additional address by clicking on the button.
However the problem with your "work around" is that addresses entered through the contacts tab don't print on reports. I have created my own"work around" and am using the custom field name "Place of Residence".
I upgraded my computer to Windows 7 and installed MyHeritage 5.1. The program will not let me open my family tree. When I first start the program, and click to open an existing file, I get the message "Cannot create folder://[foldername]"
When I use the Open command under the File menu, I can browse to my family tree file, but when I click to open it, I get the message "Cannot copy [filename.zed] into project."
Please help. I love Family Tree Builder and don't want to lose several years of work!
Is it possible to get the images used for the background of the reports? I have tried to locate them in the program installation folder, with no result at all.
You should be able to find the images used in the background of charts in Family Tree Builder in the folder located on your computer here: C:\Program Files\MyHeritage\Reports\Backgrounds
Glad to hear you are enjoying Family Tree Builder and MyHeritage.com!
Hi! In this folder I cann't find all the backgrounds the program is actually using, just some of them. Any other idea?
You should be able to find the images used in the background of charts in Family Tree Builder in the folder located on your computer here: C:Program FilesMyHeritageReportsBackgrounds
Glad to hear you are enjoying Family Tree Builder and MyHeritage.com!
Is it possible that you're using the family tree photos Screen saver in Family Tree Builder?
If yes, you can turn it off in Family Tree Builder. Open the program and click on Tools > Options. In the Screen saver section, click on the YES next to "Use MyHeritage.com Screen saver" to change it to NO.
I am wondering if there are setting or plans to increase the level of security with FTB
My examples are
Living people are shown on web as Living and Real Surname. Other s/ware has the ability to show Living - Living (fn- sn) options.
I have made some matches with other trees by simply guessing the names (traditions) plus online archive search of national newspapers.... After I made the smart match > I was then able to get the images etc.
When the website is updated with a source upload....the webpgase shows the update and also shows the new documents/images loaded to the site. In my case, some of these are living people... Can we pls have a setting where the documents attached with living people are not shown to all and sundry??
