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by Keith Wilson
Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:18 am
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: Italics in fields
Replies: 2
Views: 5560

Re: Italics in fields

My specific need is to break away from the built-in source format and add freeform source information; in doing so I would like to italicize certain words (titles) when appropriate. When I tried to change the font, it changed the entire field. Am I missing something? My limited knowledge of databas...
by Keith Wilson
Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:07 am
Forum: Enhancement Requests
Topic: Closing Windows
Replies: 1
Views: 4714

Hi Bob Many thanks for your detailed list of windows that do not respond to Cmd+W. I will investigate all of them and make the necessary changes in the next release of iFamily, however, some of the panels are "floating child panels" and the current Apple Human Interface Guideline (HIG) says that suc...
by Keith Wilson
Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:52 am
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: Add a Sibling
Replies: 3
Views: 6152

Re: add a sibling

I'm sure there's a cleverer way, but what I do in that situation is create 'phantom' parents to attach the children to e.g. Mr Smith and Mrs Smith (use whatever your surname is) which allows you to continue until you get the evidence for what they are actually called. Also works the other way for "...
by Keith Wilson
Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:03 am
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: Images for Event Places
Replies: 5
Views: 7203

Re: Images for events

Keith, Are there any plans to allow photos for an event in addition to people and sources? It seems like, for example, a wedding photo should be attached to the Marriage Event instead of to both individuals separately.Thanks, Jon Hi Jon If you drag the same image into iFamily more than once then iF...
by Keith Wilson
Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:23 pm
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: Kekule Numbering System
Replies: 6
Views: 11655

The simplest solution is to give the user the choice of binary or decimal representations. However, to interpret a decimal Ahnentafel number the first thing a reader has to do is to mentally convert it to a binary string of 0's and 1's.

Will provide the option in V2.502

Keith
by Keith Wilson
Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:17 pm
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: Notes vs Comments vs Story
Replies: 3
Views: 6658

Hi

I have added a new FAQ at

Where do I put Notes and Comments?

which may explain the way that iFamily was intended to handle the information in the Notes, Comments and Story fields.

Keith
by Keith Wilson
Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:11 pm
Forum: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
Topic: Where do I put Notes and Comments?
Replies: 0
Views: 17089

Where do I put Notes and Comments?

Content moved to new support page, click here. (website still under construction)


I hope the above makes it all a bit clearer.

Keith
by Keith Wilson
Sat Oct 25, 2008 1:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: List of children in order
Replies: 3
Views: 7164

Children are sorted by Birth date followed by Name. If none of the children has a birth date then the sort is in name sequence. So, if none of the children has a birth date then, until you have found their birth dates, you can prefix each name with a numeric number, for instance I added three childr...
by Keith Wilson
Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:41 am
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: Did I imagine a consanguinity report?
Replies: 2
Views: 5689

Try Reports -> Selected Person, or Ancestors or Descendants.

Keith
by Keith Wilson
Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:05 am
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: Events: Notes - brown vs black ink
Replies: 3
Views: 6405

There is a check button called "Multiline Notes" that will display all the Notes expanded.

Keith
by Keith Wilson
Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:11 pm
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: Source Type: Personal Knowledge or ...
Replies: 4
Views: 8665

The default list only includes "E-mail message" I suspect that you have imported a Gedcom file that had "Email" as a Source Type and that iFamily created an extra type to accommodate your data. If you want to combine them all into one Source Type then: Open Sources Add/Edit dialog Click on the colum...
by Keith Wilson
Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:33 am
Forum: Previous Versions and New Features
Topic: What's New in V2.506 - released as 2.511
Replies: 0
Views: 18853

What's New in V2.506 - released as 2.511

What's New in V2.506 Context Diagram - Highlighting Inconsistencies V2.501 - added an option to highlight inconsistent parent-child relationships in the Context Diagram. They are calculated using similar rules to those used in the Data Inconsistency Report. Clicking on the mid point of the relat...
by Keith Wilson
Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:41 am
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: Kekule Numbering System
Replies: 6
Views: 11655

One option is to include all the reference numbers in a separate report - an Index of People report. This would allow options to include Numeric Id, Reference Number, Ancestral File Number .... Creating indexing instructions in an RTF file is problematic because different word processors handle inde...
by Keith Wilson
Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:10 am
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: Source Type: Personal Knowledge or ...
Replies: 4
Views: 8665

In iFamily you can add as many Source Types as you like - you are not constrained to using the list that is there by default. For instructions on adding a new Source Type click on the Help button to the right of Source Type in the Sources Add/Edit dialog

Keith
by Keith Wilson
Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:56 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Why bother to register & pay for software??
Replies: 13
Views: 17483

I have a large timeline wall chart of composers - would that help? Sorry to be flippant - other genealogy applications do include various types of timelines that can be displayed together with timelines for each person in the database. Some time ago I created one for wars but there have been so many...
by Keith Wilson
Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:41 am
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: Minor detail: Report->Select Person->NeoOffice
Replies: 1
Views: 4799

Some word processors need this place-holder or the footer does not display correctly.

Keith
by Keith Wilson
Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:37 am
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: Event->Places
Replies: 3
Views: 6470

Hi Marion There are two reports in the "Events -> Places" dialog - one is RTF and the other is CSV format. These two reports were designed as an aid for people to clean up place names that were imported from a Gedcom file. You seem to be needing a nicely formatted report for some sort of printed pub...
by Keith Wilson
Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:22 am
Forum: Enhancement Requests
Topic: STORY panel
Replies: 2
Views: 5800

Undo or Cmd+Z should work fine

Keith
by Keith Wilson
Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:02 pm
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: How do I Generate Reports for my Children?
Replies: 6
Views: 8814

This is a wonderfully presentation of keeping things focused and simple for giving info to others - thank you. ...... So, my question is: Is there a workaround for getting the Page Per Person report for more than one person at a time? I'd gladly have the report for all 1000 people in my database if...
by Keith Wilson
Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:33 am
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: Exchange person 1 for person 2
Replies: 1
Views: 4597

I want myself as person 1 not my ex-husband. I imported a GEDCOM file where I was person 1, but in the iFamily file I am person 2. How do I permanently change this? Hi Nola I can understand why you do not want your ex to be numero uno any more but .... The Numeric Id of a person is simply a numeric...
by Keith Wilson
Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:18 am
Forum: Enhancement Requests
Topic: HTML-Six Generation Descendant Table
Replies: 3
Views: 6245

Hi Marion 4. In your web page, when you click on the thumbnail of PDF file it will open in your web browser's default PDF viewer. PDF files work fine for me but they open in Safari, not the default PDF application. Safari may (or may not) apply its current font size and expand it to full scale - and...
by Keith Wilson
Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Great new features in 2.463
Replies: 1
Views: 6059

Great new features in 2.463

Originally posted by Alid62 Keith, Finding several things in 2.463 immensely useful, particularly those that let me check for missing events, sources etc. Some may not be so new but I've just found them so they are to me. I had been going to ask " now that I can track missing source citations via '...
by Keith Wilson
Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Great new features in 2.463
Replies: 1
Views: 6059

Great new features in 2.463

Hi Alison

I'm having lots of fun developing iFamily and comments like yours make it so worthwhile.

Thanks

Keith
by Keith Wilson
Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:56 am
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: How do I put a Web Page in the Story panel?
Replies: 2
Views: 6826

How do I put a Web Page in the Story panel?

Originally posted by SteveBUK

Keith

Thanks very much .. wonderful responsiveness as ever. :)
by Keith Wilson
Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:44 am
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: How do I put a Web Page in the Story panel?
Replies: 2
Views: 6826

How do I put a Web Page in the Story panel?

How do I put a Web Page in the Story panel? For example a page from Wikipedia? To copy a Web Page into the Story Pane Open the WikiPedia web page in Safari Press Cmd+A to select all Press Cmd+C to copy the selection (in this case the selection is all) In iFamily Right Click on the Story Pane Select...
by Keith Wilson
Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:24 am
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: How do I put a Web Page in the Story panel?
Replies: 2
Views: 6826

How do I put a Web Page in the Story panel?

Originally posted by SteveBUK

For example a page from Wikipedia?
by Keith Wilson
Sat Oct 11, 2008 1:04 am
Forum: iFamily Help
Topic: PDF FILES
Replies: 3
Views: 5784

PDF FILES

iFamily for tiger displayed pdf files with a thumbnail, and files pasted a few months ago continue to display correctly. I just dragged a pdf displaying correctly in one persons pictures window to another person and it now displays a blurry pdf sign at the new location and correctly at the old loca...
by Keith Wilson
Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Opening page
Replies: 5
Views: 10232

Opening page

Originally posted by plange Is it possible to choose the design of the page you get when you open the iFamily? Instead of " family" i would like to have the possibility to choose " events" , " Pictures" or " story" etc. as the opening image. If it¥s not possible, maybe it could included in a later...
by Keith Wilson
Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Opening page
Replies: 5
Views: 10232

Opening page

[quote=z"plangez"]Is it possible to choose the design of the page you get when you open the iFamily? Instead of " family" i would like to have the possibility to choose " events" , " Pictures" or " story" etc. as the opening image. If it¥s not possible, maybe it could included in a later version? I...
by Keith Wilson
Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Opening page
Replies: 5
Views: 10232

Opening page

If you have a Birth date of 01 May 1800 and you know that the person was Christened then you can enter a date like " After 01 May 1800" for the christening date and it will appear in chronological sequence after the Birth date. Similarly, " Before" dates appear before other events on...