Hi,
I'm glad that you find this software not so bad, but with the list of suggestion, I wonder about the others you tried and how bad you find them.
I will try to add some answers :
Hey all,
I stumbled on this app the other day when attempting to make sense of all my granda's old genealogy research. It's the best tool I've found - but it seems to be about 10 years out of date. Especially on the design side.
Which look and feel do you use ?
Some of them are more outdated than others.
We use Java and swing with Netbeans behind the whole structure. Therefore, the design has no chance to looks like recent mobile applications.
I appreciate it's a very powerful tool - but it's operation is clunky is many respects.
Editing records isn't intuitive - when you spot an incorrect record in one of the views - being able to click and update would simplify things massively
Which editor do you use ?
GEDCOM Editor shows you the GEDCOM records in the hard way
Aries Editor shows you all the linked data in multiple windows
Cygnus Editor shows you unified windows to make the basic actions required with genealogy duties.
On any windows, if you click on a record and your current editor is displayed, your editor is updated with the current record, you can them modify it quickly.
If you right-click, you open a contextual menu with "edit" option which allow you to open your default editor and modify the record.
Please, explain how you work and what you want to enhance.
The importance of colours is lost - even colouring the minimise/maximise buttons would help as it's not clear what does what
I'm not sure to understand this suggestion.
Please explain in which context you are.
Simplify! There's wayyy too many buttons. Why is there a calculator for instance? I would make title one of the top navs as 'Views' and split it into subcategories
Calculator is legacy, we should change it for the date converter.
I'm not sure to know of which buttons you want to drop.
Create, Open, Close, Save, cut, paste, copy, undo, redo seems not superfluous.
Redistribute the graphs into a sub menu within 'Views' which generates them on one click based on the predefined base user - It took me a while to realize you click through on the text on the desired graph from List & Reports > Charts
You already have this : Open Menu "Views" then "Lists and reports".
Alt-selecting records doesn't work well - For instance when trying to update a common type in locations - you can get it with the arrow keys and then right clicking edit. But this screen takes ~10 seconds to come up
Again, I'm not sure to understand this suggestion.
Please, explain what you want to do exactly in which window.
The WebBook is a great idea - but seems to be missing some of the things you'd most like other people to see (Graphs, trees)
Webbook is outdated, for sure.
The real question is : this features is really needed when sites like Geneanet exists ?
So, this is not at top priority.
Feel free to look at the code and propose updates :
http://svn.ancestris.org/ id: anonymous pwd:password
The ability to view the full, unfiltered tree - would be hugely beneficial. Similar to how myHeritage and FamilyTreeDNA do (But even they do it bad and clunky.)
This is possible on small trees, impossible on big ones.
You can see all your data of your genealogy with the new graph module.
The ability to merge with geneanet.org results based on a confidence rating. Seems at the moment it needs to be done manually ?
You can export to Geneanet
You can merge several GEDCOM files.
You can choose which individuals to keep when you merge several individuals.
I don't see how you want to proceed to get geneanet results.
Parsing HTML files ?
Export them to text ?
Crawl the pages ?
What is the confidence ratings you wrote about ?
I've never seen it in Geneanet.
Search doesn't work well, needs to be exact. It 'Bruce William' or 'Bruce,William' won't match for 'Bruce, William'
Quick search works well : need to be exact
There is advanced search and others tool to find people.
UserID pane : Button to generate a tree based on this user would be nice. Less space for the photo - get rid of that old scroll vector for file attachments, less space for general info/sources and more dedicated to what most entries will have. Name/DOB/Death/Location. Replace the 'Add spouse/sister/etc' buttons with a simple "Add" which gives a dropdown selection
You seem to speak about Cygnus editor.
You don't have media, OK. Others users loves to see them with the individual.
For the buttons, just right-click on them to see that only on submenu will be a nightmare....
No way to add second spouses or half-brothers/sisters?
Right-click on the infamous 'Add spouse/sister/etc' buttons you mentioned in your previous suggestion....
Ctrl+A doesn't seem to work. Sometime I use commonly to clear a search field. Instead you need to delete manually.
CTRL+A means select all.
In which context do you want to use it ?
For the community this BBS is also pretty clunky to use. Mattermost can be deployed within a couple of minutes which allows for faster collaboration in a nice clean UI.
Mattermost is able to retrieve all messages form all BBS ?
Slack and Mattermost are not exactly the format intended for this billboard.
Perhaps, we are too old school.
For the all_in_one.svg - generating this for the WebBook and utilizing something like https://github.com/egaxegax/dbCartajs would work ?
Webbook generate html pages. all-in-one generate svg.
If your tool is able to display svg in html pages, there is no reason this will not work.
Is the source code available anywhere? I'd be happy to contribute to the development.
Feel free to look at the code and propose updates :
http://svn.ancestris.org/ id: anonymous pwd:password
Zurga
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