Hello, Everybody understands that current Autoarrange cannot handle trees with complex structure but I have a suggestion for minor improvement of it without lots of hard solutions but with ability for future improvements.
The main idea is: when Autoarrange has to arrange the complex tree it has genealogical rules that lead to the graphical mess when these rules cannot be fulfilled. We can define a variant rule that: IF there is a complex tree (which will definitely cause a problem - what we can check before beginning of autoarranging) - THEN it has to use minor "variant" of autoarrange.
Here are some thoughts of what can be a variant:
1. I am very annoyed of arranging when I do Autoarrange and everything is good except one small part which autoarrange doesn't know where to put - Decision is: to separate this "problem part" and put its last (youngest) individual to the line (level) of equal individual from another part (wife which family causes the problem - to the level of her husband; brothers/sisters - to leave place below all the existing brothers/sisters to have an ability to place there a family of one brother/sister which cause a problem.
2. Next thought is almost the same as first one - I only would like to have Autoarrange when it Does its work correctly to put families of two last spouses on the same level (now husband's ancestors are above him and wife's are above husband's at the top right position).
3. One more thought to define an empty place around of the problem part to give a user ability to handle it manually without handling already arranged part of the tree.
4. The most complex task is what to do with the crossing lines and multiple marriages: I think the best way for you to create Autoarrange Rules how GenoPro is going to handle division by GenoMaps and then (taking these Rules into account) propose to the user which parts of the big tree (having problems) can be (by user's order) moved to other genomaps with all the individuals that linked to the Point Individual (Individual who is a beginning of the problem area - which can be assigned in these rules) of the problematic part.
I propose to create and discuss over in this topic these Autoarrange Rules during (before) implementing.
More than that we can make variants for different cases - for example: one option handling is "In the "problem marriage" female should be moved to another GenoMap with all the related people" or for different nations it is correct "to move male...".
Then in help files we have described in examples "How to handle manually complex cases" - but almost all of this can be described in Rules. And finally, these Rules can be used during Autoarrange not all together but by the Blocks with Subrules with choice (what to use and what to skip).
The best way of doing something - not to say all the time that Autoarrange Cannot do something but let's afford an ability for the customers to have at least option of it - all the same it is better way to handle manually only part of big tree then positioning of the large tree completely manually all the time.
Everybody welcome to right here thoughts about AutoArrange Rules.