Mega Fanchart
I was thinking like on Instagram you can keep scrolling and scrolling, you cannot see every post at once but it is easy to continue to scroll ans when you load new things, old things will unload. Could this happen with the fanchart?
Would you let me know if this will be possible or not?
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Earl Marshall said: BYU has already built this tool. You can find it at
https://virtual-pedigree.fhtl.byu.edu...
It asks you to grant access to your FamilySearch account and uses the data there to build the pedigree.0 -
Hi,
I have the following ideas (requests) with printing:
- My tree is now over 10 generations deep, but with printing I can only visualize 7. Why do you have this limitation? Nowadays printers can handle any size.
- A further issue is when a name a too long to print with the given font size you add ab ellipse (...). It would be better to change font or print in two lines.
- My family (situated in Hungary, Europe) is from 4 different countries (this is very common in Hungary as we've been split up by the Trianon dictate after the WWI) and many villages. I would like to be able to print the place of birth also. This is also a very important part of the tree!
As a programmer I would be able to solve all the above mentioned issues if I could "export" the tree. I guess this is not possible. Would be nice too.
Thank you for your help in advance. Hope to hear from you soon.
Joseph
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I haven't explored it in a while, so I don't know what to recommend, but the Solutions Gallery's Charts section has dozens of offerings, many of them free: https://partners.familysearch.org/solutionsgallery/s/list?price=free&category=charts
A couple of years ago, I ended up adding birthplaces to a fan chart "by hand", in an image editor, and I had to give up on color-coding, because the image editor wasn't exporting it properly to PDF. (I was trying to do religions. I use the names of places as they were at the time of the event, so coloring by birth country is monochrome: they were all in Hungary prior to Trianon.)
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Wow, I didn't know about this possibility. Thanks for the info, I will explore it...
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I haven't found any which can produce PDFs. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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You may need to use more than one program to produce PDFs -- a charting program that talks to FS to generate the chart, then an image editor to fiddle with the chart and generate the PDF. (Or generate a graphic that yet a third program then converts to PDF.)
As you've doubtless noticed, given how sites and companies like Puzilla and Legacy can access the tree on FS, there is a means of essentially "exporting"; it's just all buried in an API somewhere, and it all gets into a level of programming that's well beyond my meager knowledge. :-)
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its not always just the printer/pdf that is the limitaiton
its also the underlying processing power and memory usage that is involved.
The designers had to come up with some sort of limitation . . . and they chose numbers that are pretty much in line with most other charting family tree software.
Though surely there are other systems out there that may have greater limits.
but one could choose just about any feature of FS and ask - why isnt there an option to make it bigger, deeper, better, . . . . its a slippery slope - by default they usually go with what is considered a generally acceptable limit.
I would say the fanchart options meets most people's demand - and beyond a certain number of genrations the number just explodes exponentially
(20 generations would be 2 the power of 20 would be over 1 million names.)
have you tried puzzilla charting?? google it.
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I've just came to say exactly what you said Joshua Aaron Harrison! It would be amazing to be able to have the possibility to increase the amount of levels of the Fan chart beyond the limit of 7 that it currently has!
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@JozsefLazar2 I've just came to support your idea!
Although there may be extra libraries that solve the problem, that means having to give to a third party access to your data, I would prefer not to have to do that.
On the other hand, as a software developer that I am, I assume that the fanchart is created with recursion, so adding more levels to it is just a matter of parameters.
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@Cesar Adriel Airaldo Boniardi, it's a shared tree, so it's not your data, and third parties have access to it already.
Adding more generations to a printed fan chart is a logistical/formatting problem: how do you fit them in without making everything too small to read?
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