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Update: a new "ftp client" tool has been released: http://www.genopro.com/help/ftp-client/

Edited: Saturday, November 25, 2006 by GenoProSupport

I hope the following will encourage you to grow your Report for the benefit of all who read it. Please follow this method for including ANY of the above easily into Genopro. I am assuming that you are using Familytrees.genopro.com to host your Report.

Double click on an individual on your tree to enter the 'properties dialog'. Enter a source title/source name and then double click the line it is stored on in the table at the bottom of the page called 'source list'

This will show the Source/citation properties dialog. In the field 'Source File or URL' you can enter the Web reference for the file you want to reference or browse to locate it. If it's a Web site for example, then that is that. NOW, the hard part. Your file must be on a server connected to the Web. With Genopro, files are uploaded to the server by the Report Generator.  When using the Report Generator we generate a Custom Skin, and when on the 'Generate Report' dialog we can choose 'edit skin'.  In here if we place a file such as say 'MY.xls' being an excel reference to be viewed on your genopro report.  So copy your excel file to this directory. Your reference in 'Sources' for this file will be 'http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/GrayGordon/MY.xls'  Of course it won't be there now, as you have to upload it via the Report generator.  I commend you to give it a go. There is a sample of the results of such an entry at http://familytrees.genopro.com/poolzone/test3/ look at member 5B.

Poolzone  a mere cog in a revolution

I have just repeated the procedure with an xls database - and it worked!!!!

Thank you Poolzone!

Any ideas why the map jpg didn't work - and still doesn't?

I have managed to upload two extra pages onto the Sources Button - but failed with two more even though I used exactly the same procedure and one success is a word doc while another word doc failed.  I even swopped them round and the same one failed.  I have the two docs sitting side by side almost in the same directory within skins.  It must be something very simple but I cannot think what.  Anyone any ideas?  My website is at:

http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/GrayGordon/default.htm

It's looking better and better and I have lots more ideas to enhance the front page.

Do I get one blue square yet?

Thanks anyway for everyon's help, especially Jon.

Every file from the skin will be copied to the output report (familytrees.genopro.com). For instance the javascript file is copied without any transformations.

Yes, you can add your files/images/pdf/attachments to the skin folder until the "ftp" client will be available.

Edited: Saturday, November 25, 2006 by GenoProSupport

Hey, I've got a Blue Square!

Just been reading your post re adding extra pages to my document.  I hope you won't think I am ungrateful, but it just way too scary for me to do that - opening htm files and changing the script within them is a recipe for disaster for a novitiate like me.  I bit like putting a 17 year old at the wheel of a Porsche Carrerra.  Way too scary.

Also, since you last visited, I have successfully added a Links (Web References) page - it should be there now.  And it works. (Although there is no right click - Open in a new window option, so browsing takes place within my Report pane)

However, I have looked at what you did at:

http://familytrees.genopro.com/appleshaw/test/

and it looks much better than mine because the links are there in the pane instead of having the pain of opening a new document!  This is way better but I am just too scared to try it yet.  I will practise on what I have so far, keep the workaround to which you refer, along with your posting, and come back to it when I have progressed to the "Two Blue Square" level!!

Oh, your losing of the spaces between the documents on my Homepage is better than mine and wll feature in my next update.

Thank you very much.

Boyd

Edited: Saturday, November 25, 2006 by GenoProSupport

There is no danger.  If you screw up, you just have to delete your custom skin and try again.  The built-in skin named English Narrative Report is embedded inside executable GenoPro.exe, so there is no danger for anyone to accidentally modify it.

In the file Home.htm, changing

I chose a map of the area my folks came from, about 300 kbs, copied it to the directory that popped up when I double clicked Edit Skin - just under all the IE files such as toc_trees.htm.  I did NOT open any of these and try to put it in there - such as the "individual" one which someone suggested yesterday.  I then copied my url from my site into the Source File or URL window, deleted the default.htm bit at the end and added the title of the map file - just as it is above.

There is one vague area you haven't mentioned.  Under the Options tab of the Report Generator, it says that the skins are located in a file called C:\GENEALOGY\GENOPRO\Skins\, whereas I the directory where I placed the map file was actually C:\GENEALOGY\GENOPRO\Skins\Customized English Narrative Report.  I have tried using both to generate the report, with no difference in the result.

I feel I am so close................. but will have to wait til tomorrow night to try again - if you can explain where I went wrong.

I am pleased with your last message. It means that your only problem with your .JPG file should be either 1. The file name has been incorrecty entered or 2. The file has not been uploaded.

Either way you need to audit these things carefully. Try locating the file first by typing the address directly into the address bar of the browser. If you cannot find it, then neither can Genopro. Upload it again.

Hint...300k is still a very large file.  Try changeing it to a .PNG file to vastly improve the performance. This should work fine for any line drawings like maps, but do not use for ordinary photos.

Poolzone  a mere cog in a revolution

Thanks for the hint re file size - i will sort that when i get this problem sorted.

If it opens as your Report then it has failed to find the file. The URL must be wrongly named or the file is not there. Please double check that your URL and FILE NAME are exactly the same. If you think this is true, then post a screenshot from the Sources Dialog and I will check it for you.

Poolzone  a mere cog in a revolution

Boydgray26 has hosted this document on the server at Genopro. He is trying to access a Microsoft Word document.

I would suggest that a .TXT file would be better suited as more users can access this file format.

Poolzone  a mere cog in a revolution

boydgray26 (11/23/2006)

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I am sooooo disappointed!  Thanks to your brill guidance Poolzone, I nearly did it!  But not quite, dammit! Click on it and you get the url I copied in just like you said - http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/GrayGordon/MacosquinOSMap02.jpg.  But then when you click on that.......... it says, "Page NOT Found!     Where did I go wrong?

Try http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/GrayGordon/pictures/MacosquinOSMap02.jpg instead.  You forgot to include Pictures in the URL.  By the way, linking to http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/GrayGordon/CivilDeathsRegister261006.xls works fine.

I can confirm the server GenoPro.com is configured to serve .doc files.  I double-checked the MIME types and the .doc extension is registered as a valid extension to deliver the file the client/visitor.

Edited: Friday, November 24, 2006 by GenoProSupport