GenoPro Support Forum

I agree about the problem with large Genomap. The scale could be extended (e.g. days instead of months or years) to spread events along the timeline. This is where 'hot zones' would be useful. Another approach is to remove end dates so that the events are all point events with no duration, thus allowing more events to be fitted in the same space.

I hadn't noticed this latest innovation before, so tried it with my test tree but got this error.

[5.37] Processing template 'popup.htm'...

[5.39] Processing template 'sources.htm'...

[5.40] Processing template 'gmap_place.htm'...

Then your customized skin is somehow corrupted. The gmap_place.htm template is part of the standard skin by default and therefore should not be missing. I suggest you create a new Customized skin for the English Narrative Report from GenoPro. Then unzip the timeline zip file into it. Some files in the skin will be replaced and some new files will  be added but NO files will be deleted!

In my first review it looks superb. Is there a way to reduce the font of the captions, for the longer names to fit? Specially the marriages get the names truncated... ...Otherwise, simply fantastic.

I did what you said and of course it worked, except that I found a lot of the people in my test tree were missing from the timeline such as most of my grandfather's syblings and uncles and aunts, also my parents though my grand neice 2004 is shown but none of my uncles or aunts either ?

Edited: Monday, March 12, 2007 by GenoProSupport

Do all of the missing individuals have at least one of  date of birth, baptism, death or disposition? If not then they will not appear on the timeline as they cannot be allocated a position on it. If they do have any of these dates then perhaps you could send a sample .gno file via a private message.

Yes, all these people have birth years and many have complete birth dates and some have death dates as well. I was especially surprised my parents weren't shown as I have full details for them.

One chap born in 1900 was shown but my father born the same year was not.

Edited: Monday, March 12, 2007 by GenoProSupport

Firstly vertical style is not properly available at present. I've tried it and the events flash up on the timeline and then immediately disappear. It looks problematic anyway as the event titles are horizontal and get truncated at the right hand edge where the condensed band starts.

It does not seem possible at present to extend the length of the event titles. An issue has recently been raised on this point on the web site (http://simile.mit.edu) but no response as yet.

As regards Iain's problem of events not appearing, they should be visible when the frame is maximised by clicking the blue icon if there are not too many events at one point in time. How many individuals are there on the genomap in your test file Iain?

I will look to produce a version separating birth & death, marriage and divorce into discrete events with no duration. This will permit a greater density. But if anyone can come up with an algolrithm to automatically generate hot zone information from the event data to spread crowded areas of the timeline then I'd be happy to implement it.

But at present I am also revisiting some work I did months ago using WinGraphviz and the 'dot' language first mentioned by crash893 back June 2005 http://support.genopro.com/FindPost5997.aspx). I have a working skin to generate SVG timeline graphs that can be manipulated (pan/zoom) using the existing SVG Genomap code. These can be generated as PNG images as well. Here is the Weaseley genomap from Harry Potter (SVG dumped to PNG so not to clear!). The main issue at present is that WinGraphviz doesn't use the latest version of Graphviz and sometimes the connecting lines do not appear.