I'll keep it in mind should I be at loose end this winter, but of course someone else could give it a shot too ::

Update 2009/12/20 See this post for further updates to this skin

update: to 4) solved this partially. to 5) solved this partially

However: if I have a person baptised 40 years after birth, then married, then divorced, it says behind the spouse [Divorce], then comes the wedding(civil) line, then a blank description line with the divorce date, then the religious wedding, the baptism date is in the column "ceremony" without description on the line of the spouse. I think the description[baptism] should be behind the spouse (instead of the divorce) and the blank line should have the description "divorce" and should be the last line, behind the religious wedding.

a screen

I have also put in your symbols for marriage/divorce. The wrong font was being used because of a lack of a 'doctype' header causing Firefox to run in 'quirks' mode.

I will ask the authors of jqGrid about the blank page when printing too.

Still need to look at printing issue and improve reporting of family relation (marriage etc.). Need expand all & collapse all buttons. Also IE does not render the tree when generated locally.

Please Note: Report must generated into a location containing an existing Narrative Report to access pictures.  This is because the GenoPro Report Generator is a little limited when handling pictures. The only option is to copy ALL pictures from the .gno file (or selected GenoMap) and no direct option to copy over only selected pictures.

Possible this is reason:
I have long ago noticed - if no NUMERALS or ENGLISH letters in picture name (there is only russian letters) - all pictures are RENAMED in 'pictures' directory of report (all versions of English Narrative Report) and first file is without extension (ALWAYS):

Picture without extension does not appear in Descendant Tree Report.
But no problems with this picture in English Narrative report (!).

The fact that the first Picture is renamed to just 'jpg' looks like a bug with the GenoPro Report Generator itself and unfortunately not something I have control of within the scripts. Hopefully Dan will look in on the forum and take this issue on board. Although it may be worth you logging this as an issue by emailing support(at)genopro.com with details.

With the narrative report, the picture URL is specified as the source ('src' attribute) of an image (img) html tag, and so the browser knows what to do with it, i.e. render as an image. However with the jquery 'FancyBox' plugin used in this report, the picture URL is given as the 'href' attribute of an anchor html tag <a>, and I guess the only way the plugin knows what it is, is by the filename extension, so without any .jpg extension, it is rendered as 'text' giving the result you see.

I wonder if it would it be possible to arrange for a dummy picture as the 1st picture in the .gno? e.g. perhaps an empty file with a name comprised off all russian letters. I do not know whether this means creating a dummy picture  with the lowest genopro ID or one with the lowest 'alphabetic' name. This picture could be associuated with, for example,  an invisible label object.

Haven't got around to sorting that yet ::

These are produced via background images and so you will need to use page setup in your browser to request printing of background colours and images.

Noted.

I also need a space between dates and places.

Eventually I want to integrate these pages into the Narrative Report. e.g. have an extra icon  after a individual on index and their page that links to these pages. A descendant chart is not appropriate for all individuals so thinking of using a custom tag to indicate who has such a chart.

Unsure as to your requirement here. The report does not use any x...xAbbr entries, the only abbreviations use are embedded in the PhDT_Individual phrase. Other texts are from the 'Enumerations' section of the Dictionary, and can be changed as required for this report.

Tried the installer and got the following error message, see imahe, with details from RegEdit. Using XP Home

Just a few things...

1. Could this at all be implemented into a Word Document with the first generation as say roman numerals (I, II, III, etc.), second generation as letters (A, B, C, etc.), third as numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.), fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, etc. generations with different codes as well?

2. How might one go about changing the marriage symbol to say a "+" or "m."?

3. After the name, if the child was stillborn or a twin, could that be noted?

4. Marriages without known dates, could the line (on the .htm) be removed?

This is probably because you have not created your own skins folder and the default of %ProgramFiles%\GenoPro\Skins is being used. IMO it is not a good idea to store user files such as custom skins under Program Files, but better kept near your other GenoPro data files and backed up with them. Some users have also come unstuck here with Vista as they may not have permissions to write to Progrm Files.

However I will change the code to detect this situation and install the skin in the default location.

For those new to GenoPro you can change the Skins location using the GenoPro Tools/Generate Report dialog, under the Options tab. Use the 'New Skin' button under the 'Generate' tab to ceate the folder and register it with GenoPro.

Most things are possible, but how probable? I guess no-one else is likely to have a go. I may have a look at creating a flat text file, but the multiple types of indexing looks too daunting. A simpler scheme, such as a level number in the left hand margin and a simple numeric reference with each level would perhaps something I might tackle. The troubl ewith letters is there are only 26 of them (latin alphabet anyway) and roman numerals are not straight forward.

The line on which the oo and o|o symbols appear is not really a marriage. In GenoPro terms they describe the 'Family' object, which does not necessarily relate to a marriage. It is I guess more of a 'partnership' symbol. A family/partnership can have one or more events such a marriage and divorce, expressed via the GenoPro Union object. With the addition of the 'NarrativeStyle' custom tag a Union can represent any family/partnership event e.g. engagement. But if you wish you can change the symbol in Dictionary.xml see PhDT_Relation_Together and PhDT_Relation_Separation. I have considered changing these to the male ♂ and female ♀ symbols according to the gender of the couple to make it more universal.

This should be possible, I'll look into it.

Back to point 1) above really. If there is a marriage, then there ought to be a GenoPro Union object to represent it. This will be displayed on the chart below the family/partnership line. If there is no Union, then no marriage line is displayed. The structure of the chart can only reflect the GenoPro structure. i.e. An Individual can have any number of families or partnerships, each 'family' or 'partnership' can have marriages, divorces, separations and children associated with it.

Well...I was refering to the Register System . But, how about something like d'Aboville System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogical_numbering_systems#d.27Aboville_System)? That seems less complicated.

But

And this bug is seen in my Descendant Tree too

So for exampe adding

What about the other white lines?

body, .treeview ul  {background-color: #e1efbb;}

in either the DescendantTree.htm or in the jquery.treeview.css.

I recommend pasting in DescendantTree.htm within the <style>...</style> area leaving the jquery.treeview.css untouched for easy of maintenance should a better version be released.

 I have added a RTF (Rich Text Format) output option for those of you who prefer hardcopy. I decided to use the compact deVilliers/Pama numbering system. The generated .rtf can be opened with MS Word, WordPad, OpenOffice to name a few. WordPad will not show headers and footers.

 Also a few changes for the HTML output option. CSS is now in a separate DescendantsTree.css file and a your own custom .css can be specified in the Configuration Parameters dialogue. The html also attempts to link to style.css as used in the Narrative Report, so if you generate into a Narrative Report base folder then the Narrative Report styling is applied also (e.g. background-image).

Yet another nice feature is that changes to configuration parameters are now 'persistent' or 'sticky'. This is achieved by storing them in the Windows registry. In time I intend to update the other skins to include this feature.

I have put some samples on FamilyTrees. An HTML Descendant Tree Chart within a Narrative Report and also a matching  RTF Descendant Tree Chart.

Next step is to update Narrative Report to detect Descendant Tree Charts dynamically and add a link on the individuals page.

But, a few more things: could something also denote Miscarriages and Abortions? And something to denote adopted and foster children would be nice.

King Semsem, added adopted/fostered miscarriage/abortion in above mentioned version.

I do not believe this is necessary in a UTF-8 encoded document however it does no harm other than increasing file size and transmission/processing overheads.

I guess that as 'WritePhrase' is unware of the document encoding the 'safe' route of encoding non-ascii is used.

As my request initiated the creation of the Hierarchical Descendant Report, I must write to thank you.  It is splendid.  I apologize that my extensive travels only allowed my checking back a few months late.

At the risk of pushing my luck, might I request a vital tweek: For sharing purposes it is vital at times to include "Notes/Comments" as one can do with the regular "Latest English Descendant Report". Please could one have the same "Hide all Comments/Show all Comments" option (under Presentation Settings of Parameter Settings) with this report?

On a more minor note: Re the numbering/lettering of the generations/children:  I understand it may be too complicated to allow user-choices.  But if there is to be one default, I'd like to make a case for reversing the current format: Rather have generations numbered, and children lettered.  Reason: In referencing/sharing its easier/normal to refer to "the first generation, second generation etc", rather than "Generation f".  This is not important re children (one usually refers to a child by name; seldom as "the 5th child").  It is unlikely there would ever be more than 26 children in a family, so shouldn't be a problem.

Bravo, again. Regards, Don

Whilst it is technically feasible to include links from the children to their parent using bookmarks and hyperlinks, a quick study of the scant OOo API documentation doesn't give me the confidence to attempt it particularly after the difficulties I had writing the existing report. It may easier with MS Word automation interface but I have not looked into that as I would not want to change one and not the other.

In hindsight it would have been better a generate a report directly as text in Rich Text Format rather than via OOo and MsWord APIs but that is 'water under the bridge' now.

Including the Ancestor Report written by Jean-Claude Guasp, sadly no longer with us,  is also not straightforward as it is written in VBScript and would require translation to javascript first and then be changed to generate MSWord/OOo/RTF instead of HTML.