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Report Title Options


In most places where you can enter a report title, you can use the following embedded fields to insert the name and other information for the current individual or marriage.  (General purpose reports such as To Do Items, Event Reports, File Ids etc. have report titles but since they are not about people these fields will not work for those report titles.)  For example, on a Family Group Record if you changed the title to [CoupleNames] it would print the names of the husband and wife as the title of the report such as Albert Berdan and Susannah Secord.  You can embed the fields in other text if desired:  The Marriage of [CoupleNames] would become The Marriage of Albert Berdan and Susannah Secord.  You can embed multiple fields in the title.  For example, Family Group Record for: [CR][HusbFullname]-[HusbRIN] [CR]and [CR][WifeFullname]-[WifeRIN] would print:

Family Group Record for:
Albert Berdan-726
and
Susannah Secord-277

Below is a complete list of the available fields that can be embedded into most report titles.  The case of the field doesn't matter.  [HusbFullName], [husbfullname] and [HUSBFULLNAME] are all considered the same.

[Fullname] - The name of the current individual in given name-surname order.  Use for individual type reports.
[Name] - Same as Fullname
[Firstname] - The first given name of the current individual or the quoted name if the Use Quoted Name option is selected.  (An English variant of this field is [GivenName].
[Givennames] - The given names of the current individual.
[Surname] - The surname of the current individual.
[HisHer] - "his" or "her" depending on the gender of the current individual.
[~HisHer] - "His" or "Her" depending on the gender of the current individual.
[HisHers] - "his" or "hers" depending on the gender of the current individual.
[~HisHers] - "His" or "Hers" depending on the gender of the current individual.
[HimHer] - "him" or "her" depending on the gender of the current individual.
[HeShe] - "he" or "she" depending on the gender of the current individual.
[Lifespan] - The life span years for the current individual.  For example: (1812-1963)
[HLifespan] - The life span years for the current husband.
[WLifespan] - The life span years for the current wife.
[UID] - The User ID# for the current individual.
[CR] - Inserts a carriage return in the title to assure it prints on multiple lines.

Use the following fields when doing marriage-type reports.

[HusbFullname] - The name of the husband in given name-surname order.  Use for marriage type reports.  For example: John A. Berdan
[HusbSurname] - The surname of the husband. 
[HusbGivenNames] - The given names of the husband.  
[HusbFirstName] - The first word in the Given Names field of the husband.  
[HusbSurname, Given] - The husband's name in Surname, Given name order.  
[HusbPrefix] - The title prefix for the husband.  
[HusbSuffix] - The title suffix for the husband.   
[HusbRIN] - The record ID number for the husband.  For example:  -173
[HLifespan] - The life span years for the current husband.
[HusbUID] - The User ID# for the husband. ... you can also use [HUID].

[WifeFullname] - The name of the wife in given name-surname order.  
[WifeSurname] - The surname of the wife.  
[WifeGivenNames] - The given names of the wife.  
[WifeFirstName] - The first word in the Given Names field of the wife.  
[WifeSurname, Given] - The wife's name in Surname, Given order.   
[WifePrefix] - The title prefix for the wife.  
[WifeSuffix] - The title suffix for the wife.   
[WifeRIN] - The record ID number for the wife.  For example:  -173
[WLifespan] - The life span years for the current wife.
[WifeUID] - The User ID# for the wife. ... you can also use [WUID].

[SpouseFullName] - The full name of the spouse in given name-surname order
[SpouseFirstName] - The first word in the Given Names field of the spouse. 
[MRIN] - The record ID number for the marriage.
[RIN] - The record ID number for the individual.
[CoupleNames] - The husband and wife names together.  For example: Albert Berdan and Susannah Secord.
[CoupleNames, Span] - The husband and wife names together with their life span years after each name.  For example: Albert Berdan (1753-1818) and Susannah Secord (1759-     ).
[CoupleFirstNames] - The husband and wife first names together.  For example: Albert and Susannah.
[GenNumber] - The generation number when printing Ancestor Book or Descendant Book reports.  For example:  Descendants of [Fullname][CR]Generation: [GenNumber]

[Filename] - The name of the current family file.  For example, Smith Family.fdb
[Pathname] - The full name of the current family file, including the path.  For example, C:\Users\John\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Data\Smith Family.fdb

[::living words::dead words] - The living words if the current person is alive or the dead words if the current person is not alive. 

[:male words::female words] - The male words if the current person is male or the female words if the current person is female.

If you want to include something on the first page header, but don't want it to appear in the Table of Contents, you can surround that portion of the title is double curly braces.  For example, if you want the title on the first page to include the generation number, but you don't want the generation number to be included in the Table of Contents entry, surround the generation number portion with the double curly braces like this:

Descendants of [FullName] {{ - Generation: [GenNumber]}}

If the title resulted in Descendants of Asa Clark Brown {{ - Generation: 1}}, only Descendants of Asa Clark Brown would appear in the Table of Contents (the opening and closing double curly braces and everything between them would be removed) and Descendants of Asa Clark Brown - Generation 1 would appear on the first page header (the opening and closing double curly braces would be removed but everything between them would be kept).


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