Is there a way of adding additional fields to the drop-down list for Attributes/Events? I have added an attribute/fact called Military Service and would like to have a sub-set for information such as; Service (RAF, Navy, Royal Marines or Army) Unit (Regiment, etc.) Awards (Medals, etc.) Where served, etc And so on, rather than a long list of Military facts as per Military1.fhf, Military2.fhf or Military_(DS).fhf available from the FHUG Website? Clive Spratt

On 2 February 2012 17:28, Clive Spratt <clivespratt@btinternet.com> wrote: > Is there a way of adding additional fields to the drop-down list for > Attributes/Events? No, but you can add a default note template to the Fact and then use the =getlabelledtext() function to extract the information for use on diagrams or in queries. -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk

<<snipped>> I have added an attribute/fact called Military Service and would like to have a sub-set for information such as; Service (RAF, Navy, Royal Marines or Army) Unit (Regiment, etc.) Awards (Medals, etc.) Where served, etc And so on, rather than a long list of Military facts as per <<snipped>> I ignored the initial download as it seemed to encode every attribute off an attestation form - like you, I felt that, for _me_, this was overkill. For what it's worth, I seem to use the following 5 custom events / attributes: Awarded (attribute) - value is list of gallantry medals awarded; Court Martial (event) Issued with (attribute) - value is list of campaign medals issued; Military Service (attribute) - value is name of unit down to as close a detail as I have, e.g. "10th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment"; Wounded (event) These attributes and events appear in multiple versions - e.g. if someone serves in 3 different battalions, I have 3 Military Service attributes. The Note attached to the Military Service attribute is then used to provide a narrative for that time interval. I discarded the idea of a separate attribute for rank as the narrative report would then describe all someone's service in a battalion, possibly up to demob, before - eventually - coming to the rank attribute and mentioning that during his service in the battalion, he was promoted. Instead, for me, it's just part of the narrative at the appropriate time (but therefore more difficult to find in a query). This seemed a reasonably small set of data. You could omit the "wounded" event and just record it in the narrative note but it is then more difficult to find using a query. I confess I don't use =getlabelledtext() - if I did, I might adjust these ideas. In any case, you need to think through carefully how you would handle multiple units, medals, etc. Adrian B