This plugin changes a single fact for a specified Individual or Family record to a new fact with the same details and is complementary to the Change Any Fact Tag plugin, which is designed to change multiple instances of a fact selected via defined filters.
All available Fact types are supported, and attached records such as Sources or Media are transferred automatically to the new fact.
The primary application for this plugin is likely to be in detailed editing of individual records, rather than system-wide changes in fact, such as may be required after importing from another application.
Download Change Specific Fact Tag V1.1
- Family Historian Version(s): V5 V6 V7
- Plugin Type: Standard
- Written by Mark Draper
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Version History
1.0 – May 2022
- First Store version
1.0.1 – Jul 2022
- Greater robustness to variation in Fact Set structure
1.0.2 – Aug 2022
- Compatible with old Military Fact Set, which contained formatting errors
- Improved Fact Set loading (fewer passes and faster execution)
1.1 (Oct 2024)
- Family Historian 5/6 compatibility added
- Improved menu behaviour and message boxes
- General coding tidy-up
Thank you for your plug in. I am trying FH7 on a 30 day trial from RM7 but am finding it not too precise and a bit annoying really (some of my dates have even been changed etc). But it’s Facts which have caused me problems. For example my RM7 ‘Will’ Fact has come up in FH7 as ‘Witnessed’ and I cannot alter it even with your plug in. Witnessed is not what happened. When I run the plug in, 2 dialogue boxes come up saying nothing found or words to that effect and I can’t do anything else. Perhap it’s me being too thick or just too old (in late 70s).
There are some lovely things about FH7 which I’d enjoy but I don’t like my data being altered like that. It looks like I’m back to RM7 on 31/7/2022!
I shouldn’t bother you with my issues but thank you for realising some of the problems and providing your own solution. RM7 has a simple click to change a Fact type – pity FH7 couldn’t compete.
Thank you again and I’m sorry I couldn’t use your plug in.
Harry – Can I suggest that you raise the issue in the Family Historian Users Group Forum (https://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/)? There are many users who have transitioned from RM to FH and are extremely happy with the move, so there will be plenty of advice available on how the two apps differ.
It may be that your data just “looks” different compared to what you are used to in RM. There is a minor compatibility issue between this plugin and the way that FH imports an RM database, but there is a correction to this on FHUG and it will be fixed permanently in a future update.
Is this plug-in marked V7 simply because it was developed in the V7 era, or does it use V7 specific features?
Previous postings have established that the lack of a V6 tag does not necessarily mean it won’t run on V6 – what we need is a “not on V6” included in the compatibility options, then if the author knows that they have written something that is V7 specific (“at long last V7 contains that ability that has been preventing me from doing that plug-in that I have always wanted”) they can say so
Uses V7 features – Fact Sets are encoded as UTF-16, and these are far easier to process using V7 features. The Change Any Fact Tag plugin runs in V5/V6, but the techniques it uses are very code-intensive (it’s over 5000 lines of code in total compared with around 750 for this one). Few authors would adopt that complexity for new plugins, now that V7 accounts for the large majority of FH users.