Printing Different types of Fan Chart
I can't seem to find how to print different types of fan charts. The only want to print a fan chart is to go to the profile page and hit print.
In the past you could in the tree view click on fan chart and then select the country view and then hit print.
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before the site redesign When you were looking at your tree you could select the type of fan chart you wanted and then click print. Now the only way to go print a fan chart is to go to the person page and then print fan chart but it doesn't give you any fan chart options.
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You must have tried to do that at a brief period during which the engineers were working on some code changes or something similar. I just attempted to print a fan chart directly from the tree view with myself in the center, and I selected "Birth Place" which is what I presume you meant by "Country View." In the "Landscape" tree view, I merely clicked on the person I wanted at the center of the fan chart, clicked the type of chart option at the upper right, clicked on "Fan Chart," and I did not have to go to the profile page to do it. The fan chart with my selected center person was right there on the screen, and "Print" is over on the right after clicking the proper icon (the two little "slider" adjustment lines right next to the type of view you want - in this case "Fan Chart").
It's working fine as of 6 June 2024 only about an hour and 15 minutes after your post above.
--Chris
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Fan Chart options are still there.
Choose Family Tree, then at the top right, you will see a drop-down box to choose Portrait, Landscape, Fan, Descendancy, or First Ancestor.
Once you have selected Fan, look for the box just to the right (sliders or fish eyes), and click on that to choose which version of the Fan Chart: Family Lines, Birth Place, Sources, etc. At the bottom of that menu, is "Print."
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They've been silently rolling out a new version of the fan chart. It has the new-style squares-and-lines options button, and it opens a sidebar instead of a drop-down. The sidebar is missing a "print" option.
For me, reloading the fan chart page using my browser's "reload" button reverts the chart to the old version.
Obviously, that will not work once they've actually admitted to and fully deployed the new version, but judging by the beta site's banner and reference to a Feedback tab, there will eventually be some means of reporting this gap. In the meantime, I suppose you could try posting about it in the group they made for the new pedigree views, or you could find a page that has a Feedback tab (such as Search - Cemeteries or Activities - All Activities) and try to explain the problem there.
For those who are going "huh?" about the new fan chart, I have an experiment to suggest: go to a chart view and set it to the fan chart. Then click the tree at the top left to go to your home page, and choose Family Tree - Tree from there. Which version do you get? (The easiest way to tell is to look at the options button: is it mostly white or kind of black? The former is the new version.)
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If the OP is "stuck" in the Beta version, a screenshot will create a nice printout of the desired version of the Fan.
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Just as a reminder, it's highly recommended that people check the settings in their browsers (usually security settings) to delete all history and cookies whenever the browser is closed. It's no only good for security, it also keeps from getting stuck on a page or view that we might not want, for example. Then the next time a person logs into FamilySearch (or any other website), the website "sees" a new person coming in fresh, without cookies that can sometimes bring in things from a previous session on that website that may not be wanted. And the user will see pages as they're intended to be seen, unclouded by the user's previous interaction on that website.
—Chris
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Is that setting available on Google Chrome?
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Sorry, I don't use Google Chrome personally, so I don't know. We'll be in the FSC tomorrow and I'll poke around in it to find out and post results here later tomorrow or Wednesday.
I have a friend that used to work in a military intelligence capacity associated with N(o) S(uch) A(gency), and he said that Meta, Google, and other common online companies likely have as much or more of our personal information than the agency for which he formerly worked. That's why I don't use Google products at all. Personally, I use Startpage.com as my search engine - they use Google so we get the same results, but Google can't see who the users are or get personal information from their computers. That, plus deletion of all cookies and history is at least a help with reducing how much personal information, including our internet use, we "willingly" give away.
—Chris
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This is good information. The instructions for configurating the search engins on the FamilySearch computers say to have the history and cookies deleted whenever the browser is closed. I have not been able to do this fore some time. So Google must have disabled that feature.
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This morning I confirmed with Tech Support what I suspected. The Chrome Flex operating system used in some FSCs (including ours) is completely reloaded each time we turn on the computer and boot up the operating system (and therefore FamilySearch). Therefore, all cookies, history, saved data, etc., is destroyed every time we shut down the computer each day. Thus we're protected.
I don't know for sure about simple use of the Chrome browser on a Windows computer. I've never been able to find a control that allows automatic deletion when the browser is closed. So it's quite possible that deletion of cookies and history needs to be done manually (there is a control that makes it simple, once you find it - just click it and it's a master delete).
—Chris
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