Book Window

Edit Book Dialog

The Edit Book Dialog is a floating window that is opened by clicking Edit in the Book List Dialog.  Alternatively, click New in the Book List Dialog, to create a new book.  Once you have provided a name for the book, the Edit Book Dialog will be opened to allow you to add items to the book.  The Edit Book Dialog can also be accessed by clicking Edit Book in the panel on the right side of the Book Window, when viewing a book in the Book Window.

The Edit Book Dialog is used to manage and edit the content of books.  Books can have a title page, a table-of-contents, an index, and of course chapters.  The contents of the book - the chapters - will usually consist of reports that you choose to add, and/or charts and diagrams.  These are generated by Family Historian (configured and tweaked, if necessary, by you, with your choice of chapter headings etc). If you wish, you can also add free text (free text is text that you write yourself) as either chapters, or as additional text inserted into other chapters. You might also use free text for a preface, acknowledgements, or a copyright statement.

See How to Add Content to a Book or Booklet for tips on using the Edit Book Dialog to add content to a book.

Tip: The Edit Book Dialog is a floating window which means that you can make any changes you like to other windows, even while it is open. The Books Dialog, which displays a list of books in the current project, is another floating window.

Tip: Editing a book is likely to be slower if Auto-Refresh is ticked; which is why that option is not ticked by default.

Fields

Available Items	List items that can be added to the current books.
Current Book Items	Lists all items that have been added to the current book.
	To change the contents of the Title Page, or any chart or diagram, or any free text item, select the item and click Edit.  The Edit button will be greyed if you select other item types.
	Open the Item Settings Dialog to view or change the settings for the currently selected item.  Every item has settings, so this button will be always be available when you select an item.  The actual settings vary between items.  Reports, for example, will typically have many settings on many different tabs.  All items have an 'item' tab which allows you to specify basic settings that are common to all items. Some settings - such as fonts, layout, footers and headers - are set in the Book Setttings Dialog (see below).
	Clicking the Go To Page button is a quick way of viewing that item in the Book Window.  It will display the current book in the Book Window, scrolled to view the currently selected item.
	Delete the currently selected items from the book.  You can select multiple items and delete them all in one go if you wish.
	Move the currently selected items up one.  This button supports multiple selection. Tip: A quick way of moving an item from the bottom of a long list to the top, is simply to select all of the items that you want to move it past, and click once.
	Move the currently selected items down one.  This button supports multiple selection. See also the above tip.
Auto-Refresh Book	If this option is ticked and the current book is open in the Book Window, it will be refreshed automatically whenever any change is made to the book in the Edit Book Dialog.  It is normally recommended that this option should be left unticked because refreshing a book can be slow.  Click the 'Refresh Book' button to manually refresh a book (this button will be greyed if the book is not currently open in the Book Window). Note: If auto-refresh is enabled, the book will be refreshed using the "Standard Build" option (see Book Build Types).
View Book	Displays the book in the Book Window.
Refresh Book	Click this button to rebuild the book so that it reflects any changes you have made in the Edit Book Dialog or elsewhere. This button will be greyed if the book is not currently open in the Book Window (see the 'View Book' button above).
Book Settings	Opens the Book Settings Dialog, which is used to specify Source information, fonts, heading styles, headers, footers, layout, privacy settings, language, and more.  These settings apply not just to one item, but to the book as a whole.