HRE newsletter, July 2023

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Welcome to our first Newsletter for 2023

No, you didn’t miss out on any news in the 9 months since the last issue, but a lot has been happening! As you’ll read below, the programmers have been busy. It is worth noting that the actual “design, construct and initial test” process is shared between volunteers in South Australia, Victoria and Norway – so there’s lots of communication to and fro, which all adds small delays at each step. Our volunteer Alpha Testers are located in Australia, Canada and Germany.

Not only does HRE aim to import TMG data (hopefully with all the user customisations intact) but it also adds enhancements and more features. This all takes time but it is really moving closer to the desired outcome every week.

Note also that during this period, due to cost impositions by our previous distribution service, these newsletters are now being despatched through HubSpot.

What’s Been Happening:

HRE development has continued across a range of items.

These can be summarised as follows.

HRE screens:

  • All screens can now be concurrently accessed/updated across multiple projects
  • All imported Events are now properly represented in Person and Viewpoint screens.
  • Name Styles are not only fully imported from TMG but can now be correctly converted to the more capable HRE Name Style format for use in Person and Location management screens. HRE Name Styles implement multi-language capability and a virtually unlimited number of name components

TMG Import:

  • HRE now handles the import of internal and external Text files and non-standard text formats (like PDF, ODT, etc) for People, Locations and Events
  • HRE now imports all TMG Flags and their settings. Included in the HRE implementation of Flags is the ability for Flag settings to be greater than a single character.

General:

  • We have continued with other general improvements in the areas of performance, continued multi-language screen support and additional Help screens.

HRE Presentations

We presented an overview of the HRE development progress at the RUG (Roots User Group) in April this year and will be presenting at TMG Down Under (in Australia) in September.