GenealogyJ

[Paul]

I think this could be improved by displaying the year of birth of individual rather than their ID number. I have several people with the same name in my tree so I have to go back to list view to find their ID number.

The latest build displays names in the dialog as GIVN SURN / SURN, GIVN - I'm not sure how much use that is??

[zebooka]

Well, I'm using defined IDs and this helps a lot.

I_YYYY_LFS = Individual, Year of Birth, Last/Family (Maiden) + First + Second names first letters

F_YYYY_Family = Family, Year of marriage, Family name

[nmeier]

Hi Paul

[Paul]

Hi Nils,

If I right-click and choose 'select root of tree' (in tree view of course!) the dialog I'm presented with has individuals listed thus in the drop-down box...

John Smith / Smith, John (I270)

If I have four of five John Smiths in my .GED how can I know which is which unless I switch back to list view?

If they were listed with dates it might be clearer which John Smith I wanted to set as root. Something like this ...

John Smith (1812 - 1855)
John Smith (1902 - 1990)
John Smith (1785 - )

Cheers

Paul

[nmeier]

ok, gotcha - I'll check in a change and build a test-version for you shortly

Thanks!
Nils

[Paul]

Much better, thanks Nils!

[Paul]

I've been using this a little while now and I think it could be further (but probably easily!) improved by putting the dates in parentheses as per my earlier post e.g. (1802 - 1874) or something like (1793 - ) or ( - 1920) where the birth or death is not known. Just a bit of concatenation I guess?

[nmeier]

Hi

parts of this is in the latest nightly as discussed - I'm also adding more details to picking families (is important when re-swiveling references).

FYI for everyone - a pic showing dates of folks and husband/wife for families (also sortable now):




Cheers
Nils

[Peter from Germany]

Nils

This is a very helpful improvement.
In former centuries our ancestors very often used the same given name for several generations, e.g. Johann I, II, III, IV and so on.

Peter

[sghoul]

true it's a usefull enhancement.
but I hoped a more generic solution to be able to use given name and surname freely in the tree.

Displaying given name and surname on the same line (John Doe) makes the boxes very width (visible on a screen with big scrollbar and printable on more pages).

If we can display them on two lines, the management of a simplified tree will be still more friendly use
John
Doe
1 Jan 1900

[Paul]

Hi sghoul, welcome to the forum!

If I understand you correctly you're talking about the display of names in Tree View? You can set this up to display your data in almost any way you choose by using 'blueprints' although these aren't yet in the new version Nils is working on.

For example, I often use a simple blueprint like this:

<table width=100%>
<tr>
<td align="center">
<prop path=INDI:NAME:GIVN>
<br>
<prop path=INDI:NAME:SURN>
<br>
<prop path=INDI:BIRT:DATE>
<br>
<prop path=INDI:DEAT:DATE>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
It looks like this in use:

[nmeier]

Good idea, Paul

that means you have to manage SURN and GIVN manually though. I'd love to have a more flexible way to break up names into their individual components right from a blueprint ootb.

Sghoul, not sure when we can review this though.

Cheers
Nils

[Paul]

[sghoul]

Bonjour Paul and Nils,

before sending my first message, I have tried with NAME:GIVN, without sucess.
With your code Paul, not better ("Something" is displayed). Maybe I haven't the right version. I tried with v2.4.5.
With v HEAD-20091205, which contains GIVN property, not better.
With v 2091229, I didn't succeed to find the parameterization button in the tree screen

Merci and Bonne annèe

[Paul]

Hi sghoul and Happy New Year to you too!

EDIT: Just checked, the latest 2.x version just displays 'something' instead of actual GIVN or SURN data in the preview window - I never noticed that before! Just click 'apply' then close the blueprint window and all should be ok!

Paul

[sghoul]

Hi Paul,

first, I think there is a little bug concerning GIVN and SURN; they are not displayed after a new install. It's possible to reporoduce it:
1. Delete the personal GenJ directory "C:\documents and settings\..." (like in a new install).
2. In the family tree, create a new individual Blueprint
3. if you try to insert tags, there is no GIVN nor SURN


4. You can set them manualy in the HTML field :
<prop path=INDI:NAME:GIVN>
<prop path=INDI:NAME:SURN>
5. Open the tags window again, and they are there


Maybe Nils can have a look on this !

Now, even if I check them and close window, the boxes in the tree are empty.

Sami