However I have hit something I cant work out.
Following advice received a few months ago I had set up my sources with a Manual set of titles which work for me when searching the source list and to avoid these "non standard" titles appearing on reports I would manually type in the source citation using The Strathclyde Standard as a source note. I then set my preferences on reports such that only the source note was printed on reports. This worked really well.

So for example I might have a source titled BLOGGS Fred [567] Parish Baptism 1865. with source citation in note field of Baptisms (PR). England. Hinckley, Leicestershire. 1865. BLOGGS Fred. Baptisms. Leicester Records Office.
When I printed say a narrative report only the citation note was printed which is what I wanted. Now in version 7 I cant work out how to stop it printing my custom title as well as the note despite trying almost every tick box on the sources print options.

I am reticent to post an FH7 query as I eagerly awaited the update and it looks great. I am trying to get myself through the learning curve and use the help file as much as possible so as to not add to the deluge of queries.

However I have hit something I cant work out.
Following advice received a few months ago I had set up my sources with a Manual set of titles which work for me when searching the source list and to avoid these "non standard" titles appearing on reports I would manually type in the source citation using The Strathclyde Standard as a source note. I then set my preferences on reports such that only the source note was printed on reports. This worked really well.

So for example I might have a source titled BLOGGS Fred [567] Parish Baptism 1865. with source citation in note field of Baptisms (PR). England. Hinckley, Leicestershire. 1865. BLOGGS Fred. Baptisms. Leicester Records Office.
When I printed say a narrative report only the citation note was printed which is what I wanted. Now in version 7 I cant work out how to stop it printing my custom title as well as the note despite trying almost every tick box on the sources print options.

Am I missing something obvious?

John Firr

Actually almost but not quite perfect. I have just run a test doing as you suggest Mike and that does indeed give my note as the citation which is as I wanted it. However it inserts the text (no text) above every citation which it didnt do when I had it set up this way in version 6. Is it possible to get rid of that first line of text?
JF

Hi Mike,
not sure if this will help and I am avoiding attaching screenshots as I understand that this forum doesnt handle them well but obviously can do if it helps.

I have only got the "notes" box ticked and have checked the format as suggested and it shows the same as your note:

{%SOUR.NOTE2%}.

This yield a format in the source list on an individual narrative report of:
1. (No text)
Then the citation I have typed in as a note.
Before the upgrade this workaround worked fine.

I tried copying and pasting your custom format and got this as a source on exactly the same report
Note: Baptisms(PR) ...
Then underneath this my note citation.

The Baptisms (PR) bit is actually the start of my citation note.

Hope this helps? I,m clearly doing something wrong but cant quite figure it out and perhaps I just need to go with the new automated system. I,m not being a luddite its just that it took me ages to get my head around citations and sources and I had something working that I understood.

regards
John F

Apologies Mike,
it is difficult to get across without pictures I guess.

If this makes no sense feel free not to waste time on it, I am grateful for all the help I get on here, but I,ll try to be clearer:
Lets say I have a baptism for Joe Bloggs in Hinckley in 1945.
I might for example want the citation in the sources list at the end of the report to say:
1. Baptisms (PR). England. Hinckley Leicester. 1945. BLOGGS Joe .Baptisms. Leicester Record Office.

In order to achieve this I had adopted a process of typing exactly that text in the notes field on the source property box then setting via tools, preferences etc so that only that note was printed as the source and I did this by unticking every box except notes on the source options page. This was working perfectly.

Since upgrading to V7 and by doing exactly the same thing it is inserting the line (no text) first then putting my citation (lifted from the note field) on a second line. This isnt a killer but looks messy.

I checked the format box as you suggested and it was exactly as per your earlier note.

So I then thought I would try the second format text that you gave and I copied it from your mail and pasted into the custom format box ( so it was exactly as you typed it) to see if it worked, however instead of removing the first line "(no text)", it now still prints two lines with the first now saying:
1.Baptisms(PR) .....
and the second then being the note citation that I want.

This is still no good as it still has a completely superflous first line ( I have typed it exactly as it appears by the way.)

So what I am seeking to do is to stop it printing these erroneous first lines and just print the source note as the source citation as I type it and nothing else.

I appreciate that this may just be too complex for me to explain and as I said perhaps I should just accept the new system and use the autotext templates and the citations it produces.

If this helps explain the problem better I would obviously welcome more advice but equally accept that I,m just trying to do something that cant be done on the new version and find a different way of working.

regards
John F

Thats perfect Mike,
cracked it, you are a star indeed.
Thanks for hanging in there!!
John Firr