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Summary

ORA's Template Library provides a way for users to store frequently-used template text in a library. A template in the library may be used by any collection template. This helps reduce repetition in collection templates.

This page includes links to ".ora-templates" files that you may download and import into your Template Library. The files are divided into categories.

If you want to import template(s) from one of the files described below:

  1. Click the download link and save the file to your Documents\ORA\Settings folder.
  2. Use the [Import Templates...] button on the OraSettings page to import one or more of the templates contained in the file.

These templates are offered as-is. They are unlicensed. You may use them for your own work, edit them to adjust to suit your preferences, or redistribute them with or without attribution.

General Purpose

These Library Templates are general purpose. They are not specific to any repository, collection, or genealogy program.

  • Enter (Help Page)
    Several Library Templates for managing "prompt" Fields
  • Lifespan
    A template that produces a lifespan in the format "(b. d Mmm yyyy, d. d Mmm yyyy)" from birth and death Fields passed as parameters. Both parameters are optional. They default to "Birth Date" and "Death Date", respectively. Produces the correct output when either or both of the date fields are empty.
    Template
    # Usage: [lib.Lifespan:birth-date-field:death-date-field]
# Version: 1.0
# Description: Produces a lifespan in the format "(b. d Mmm yyyy, d. d Mmm yyyy)". Both parameters are optional. They default to "Birth Date" and "Death Date", respectively. Produces the correct output when either or both of the date fields are empty.

<(<
<b. [{1:Birth Date}:date:d Mmm yyyy:Mmm yyyy:yyyy]>
<[+:, ]d. [{2:Death Date}:date:d Mmm yyyy:Mmm yyyy:yyyy]>
>)>

Ancestral Sources

These Library Templates are intended for use with Ancestral Sources, a companion program for Family Historian.

The Master Genealogist (TMG)

These Library Templates are intended for use with The Master Genealogist.

  • TmgBasicEventEntry (Help Page)
    Contains several Library Templates you can use to enter new events or modify existing events. You must import "TmgCountryExclude", "TmgOpenTagEntry", and "TmgEnterEvent" or the other Library Templates will not work.
  • TmgChooseEventType
    Contains a single Library Template that opens the Tag Type List window and selects a given Tag Type. You use it from the TMG Details window to begin the process of adding an event.
    Template
    # Usage: [lib.TmgChooseEventType:typeName:typeField]
# Version: 1.0
# Description: Opens the Tag Details window for the given event type. Start in Detail View. Specify param 1 and/or param 2. Param 1 is type name as text, param 2 is type name from variable. They can be combined via concatenation of 1 and 2, but that's an accident.

{F4}{250}{{1:{1}}}{{2:[{2}]}}{250}{F9}{250}
  • TmgOpenAddCitation
    Contains a single Library Template that opens the Citation window. You may use it from any TMG window where F4 opens the Citation window. The Library Template sets the Source textbox and tabs to the Citation Details textbox.
    Template
    # Usage: [lib.TmgOpenAddCitation:sourceNumber]
# Version: 1.0
# Description: Use from any TMG window where {F4} opens the Citation window. If you specify a source number as parameter 1, this template enters the source number in the Source textbox and tabs to the Citation Details textbox. If you do not specify a source number as parameter 1, leaves the text cursor in the Source textbox with the current text selected.

{F4}{250}{{1:{1}{TAB}{100}{FAST}}}
  • TmgRecordId (Help Page)
    Sets the Citation Reference textbox in TMG's Citation window to the value of the "Record ID" Field.
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