Specification:Graphical Descendant Report

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Graphical Cousin Report - Work in progress page

Everyone has been telling me how this report shoule run/look. Ok, I'll write them down here and... uh think.

Known Errors

From
"Rob Healey" <[email protected]>
I keep getting the error message "cannot import register_report"...
probably a 2.5 version error, but working with Rob
From
Jérôme ([email protected])
=> out of memory (physical + swap) ~1Go
Huge error. Needs to be fixed. working...

Maybe Future features

  • Thinking of adding notes to the report as seen in 'Reports -> Graphs -> Family Lines Graph' and scroll all the way to the far right of the options.
  • Maybe adding a border around the report.
  • any others that you can think of?

asked for

alan ([email protected])
1. Title - perhaps family name should be used as well? In my case it could be "Cousin Chart for Thomas Armstrong and James Wilson Armstrong". Or "...Thomas and James Wilson Armstrong".
2. Left column - Armstrong, John and McFarlane, unknown. No lines joining people to the event as there is with Armstrong, Thomas and Wilson, Margaret. In fact Armstrong, Thomas and Wilson, Margaret is the only relationship where the people and event are tied together.
3. Wilson, Margaret (second column from left). Her box isn't indented as it is with other spouses."Indent Spouses" box was ticked when the report produced. Also the spacing between her box and the event box is different to the spacing with other spouses.
4. Although no dates are shown in my database Wilson, Margaret was the first wife and Crane Elizabeth the second, and therefore her two children were older that their step-siblings, so the report sequence isn't correct.
5. Would it be better to tie main person with event and spouse with a verticle line instead of horizontal lines out the end of the box? See my example in red with Armstrong, James Wilson and Casey, Ann. Of greater importance with families in the right column.
8. Always nice to generate a small box somewhere that says "Print Date...". Perhaps an option in the Print tab under "Print page numbers"?


Other

From: Benny Malengier ([email protected])

why not call it 'Extended Descendant Tree' or 'Cousin Descendant Tree'.
ok, maybe a different name... Any other thoughts?
2/Do you think it possible to merge descendant tree code with your code?
A (far?) future yes.
3/Color information. I believe a chart like this can show its information better with a bit of color. I am thinking a color for the father ancestors, a color for the mother ancestors, and then a color per uncle/aunt. This could be a single option, that when selected removes the drop down shadows. As a comparison, a chart of a commercial competitor
http://www.progenygenealogy.com/Legacy-Charting-Companion/descendant-chart.html


Not me, but maybe an error somewhere else

Also, SVG output format is not well formed

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: file:///home/jerome/cousin_chart.svg Line Number 98, Column 64:<text x="2.93cm" y="2.89cm" style="fill:#000000; font-weight:"bold"; font-size:9; font-family:sans-serif;">.....</text>

font-weight:"bold" will break style=""

Maybe to write style="fill:#00000; font-size:9; font-family:sans-serif;" next (or just before) font-weight:"bold" ?