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Post #9124 Posted 11/8/2005 6:42:46 AM
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How can I merge two separate family trees when a particular member of one family marries the member of other family already existing in the same genopro.file?
Have I rewrite all members (of the smaller tree) and ascribe them one by one to the bigger tree? And then copy all detailed data records referring to each person?
Post #9125 Posted 11/8/2005 7:08:32 AM


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AFAIK cut/copy-paste will move all selected items (person(s), family(es), link(s)). All you have to do is to rearrange them accordingly... All data will be preserved. (If you use copy/paste, you'll get false report reading, because you'll have all persons counted twice, unless you decide to delete one copy.)

...or (what is even simpler) right-click on a person that appears two times, create a hyperlink of him/her, and newly created item link as a mate/parent/child to a newly added tree.


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I believe the best approach would be to stored the separated family tree on 2 different GenoMap and use hyperlink to link the individual.

You need GenoPro Beta to accomplish this.

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Copying / duplicating the information will be problematic in the future, lets say you don't update both each time? And if you export you tree you will have duplicate individuals.


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This is a good approach, however, the problem is that you can not see all the family of Joe (e.g.: his children) on genomap 2.

May I suggest genopro to add an option that all of the descendents of Joe on genomap 1, will be displayed also on genomap 2.

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beraha (11/8/2005)
May I suggest genopro to add an option that all of the descendents of Joe on genomap 1, will be displayed also on genomap 2.

I understand what you mean, however I have no idea how I would implement such a feature.

Post #9129 Posted 11/8/2005 10:11:04 AM


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I understand what you mean, however I have no idea how I would implement such a feature.

:( No idea at all?

This feature is very important to me. I have 2 family trees. One of my own family, and the other one of my wife's family. Our children are connected to both trees. I would like our children to be displayed on both genomaps, without the need to use CTRL_C + CTRL_V. This is a problem because that way genopro "thinks" that my only child is 2 separate individuals.

The idea is to take one genomap as the "primary" genomap and to copy (only as links), some individuals to the other secondary genomap.

Maybe other Users, such as RON can help?

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beraha (11/8/2005)
The idea is to take one genomap as the "primary" genomap and to copy (only as links), some individuals to the other secondary genomap.

It is easier said than done.  What happen to the pedigree links and the families?  Those objects do not have the linking capability yet.  Also, what happen if someone deletes a family or a pedigree link from the "primary" GenoMap?  Creating links is cool, but it is possible the user deletes the "primary" data.

Until I know how to write the code to implement a feature, that feature will remain on the "todo" list forever, regardless how important that feature might be.  It is obvious you are not a software engineer.  I wanted to have hyperlinks since the begining in 1998, however I had to spend several years of thinking until I found the right solution.  As I gained more programming experience, I improved the mechanism of serializing data as well as the ability to miror some data from another object.  For novice programmer, this may sound easy, however there are many scenarios such as the drawing on the screen, auto arrangereport generator, import & export, editing data in the dialogs & Table Layout, undo/redo, copy & paste as well as the case of the source data being deleted! Until I had the solution for all those scenarios, the internal hyperlink could not exist as a feature.  If you remember version 1.x, you could use the checkbox "alias" to exclude an individual as a substitute of the internal hyperlink.

What you are asking is much more complex than what is described.  The internal hyperlinks is analogous as having a communication system where the caller can have concurrent conversations with multiple individuals, however the request to miror a tree is like having multiple callers with concurrent conversations with multiple individuals, all on the same channel. I am not saying it is impossible, however there are still unresolved issues.

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Thank you for your reply.

Of course, You are doing a great job, and you have a wonderful program.

Post #9132 Posted 11/8/2005 1:22:42 PM