Comments on: Family Tree Maker: Creating a Calendar

By: Andy D Anderson

Andy D Anderson — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:00:27 +0000

I have FTM 2009. I can generate a calendar report but I have NO preview. I do have a preview if I select “immediate family only” If I use the other 2 options, “selected individuals and others” NO preview is shown. How do I get a preview? All other reports and charts work fine, but NOT the calendar report.

Thanks,

By: Tana L. Pedersen

Tana L. Pedersen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:19:40 +0000

Leap Year Issues
Jim (comment #13) brought up an interesting problem. The calendar doesn’t work correctly if you have individuals in your file who have birthdays or anniversaries on February 29th. In Jim’s case, the calendar would freeze. In my case, I try to display “All individuals” in my calendar and the calendar simply won’t appear.

Fortunately, a fix is on its way. Although I can’t give a specific time frame, I can tell you that Family Tree Maker is aware of the issue and is working on it.

#13
Jim, I have been able to keep anniversaries of divorced couples from displaying in the calendar. You need to make sure that the relationship status of each couple is “divorced.” To do this, go to the Person tab for the individual and click the Relationships button. Highlight the spouse’s name and in the editing panel, choose “Divorced” from the Status drop-down list.

#16
Jacques, we seem to be having the same problem with our calendars. Being unable to include your entire family seems to be tied to the leap year issue. (Read my first comment for more information.)

By: Jacques Pouliot

Jacques Pouliot — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:48:33 +0000

I can generate the calendar, but it
wont take all individuals in my tree,
only the immediate family, any solutions.

Thanks
Jacques Pouliot

By: Alberto Santana

Alberto Santana — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:36:54 +0000

Hi again!!

Edit: I updated to version 18.0.0.305, and I found calendar report.

I love FTM!!

By: Alberto Santana

Alberto Santana — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:16:27 +0000

Hi!!

(Sorry for my english)

I have FTM2009, version 18.0.0.95, and I can’t see the calendar report. I go to publish section, and into collection i have charts&reports and saved publications.

Inside Charts&Reports, i only have “charts, genealogy reports, person reports, relationship reports, place reports, media reports, source reports, books”

Where is the calendar report?

Thank you in advance

Alberto from Canary Islands (Spain)

By: Jim McKinney

Jim McKinney — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:02:52 +0000

It is great to have the calendar back. I have two requests regarding the calendar.

First, I have two family members with leap day issues. One chose leap day for a wedding, the second was born on leap day. I would guess that the testing of the calendar took place in 2008, a leap year, and the problem was probably not seen, but in 2009, which is not a leap year, including these two persons and their special dates causes the calendar to freeze. When I change the dates to February 28 or March 1, the calendar works. It would be great to see the program fix these and default to February 28 or March 1 in non-leap years rather than freeze and require a workaround which must be undone in the leap year.

The second issue is I cannot find a way to eliminate wedding anniversaries of divorced couples. Even excluding the non-blood related divorcee does not exclude the anniversary. Please consider adding an option to exclude these anniversaries which some folks may not want to remember. My workaround is to exclude both people, but that excludes the divorced family member’s birthday.

Thanks for putting the calendar back in and thanks for considering these updates.

Jim

By: Bob Freeman

Bob Freeman — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:54:05 +0000

Thank you John Donalson, your answer was dead on.

Bob #8

By: John Donaldson

John Donaldson — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:35:08 +0000

David # 10

See the link on # 9

John D

By: David Davenport

David Davenport — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:38:08 +0000

I have Family Tree Maker but it does not appear that I have the latest update. I cannot check for updates as the program tells me I am not the administrator for my computer but I am the administratot and am logged in as the administrator. How do I get these updates.

Dave Davenport

By: John Donaldson

John Donaldson — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:45:32 +0000

# 8 Bob

If you are talking about the SP1 patch (update) for FTM either

Go to
http://www.familytreemaker.com/Support/Patch_2009.aspx

Alternatively you can in FTM 2009 go to Help>Check for Updates

John D