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English Narrative Report - configuration and picture display

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Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 - Post #24132
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Ron et al.

I has been about a year since I did some modification of the English Narrative Report for publication of my tree (on both familytrees.genopro.com/guyheiser/ and on www.heiser.co.uk/family) and WOW - things have really moved on. Fantastic job.

A few questions though. The configuration has now got me a little confused. Is there somewhere in the forums (I have searched - I promise!) a step by step guide that talks through adding the Custom Attributes and explains how to then use them to do report configuration?

I actually prefer to have my own Custom Report skins and have a modified config.xml (old school I know). But this also confused me. In the old days I would add changes to the Parameters section and that would control things. Now there seems to be a short section like this with just the _PathPictures in it then a long ParameterDescriptions section with defaults etc.

So - do I add parameter setting to the existing section, or do I change the defaults in the ParameterDescriptions section (this is what I have now done) or do I add a new Parameters section at the end?

Finally on this, how do I set the StyleSheet parameter. Is it a relative path to the skin folder or an absolute one? I have reverted back to my bad old ways and changed style.css to get my custom background image.

On a separate track, I have modified both my home page (this works fine) and the individual sheet. The latter is because I don't like the slide show as a method to display all the pictures for an individual. This is mainly because many of my pictures are census images and these look a little odd in the slide show. I have changed it to show just the primary picture and then have a "div" section containing clickable thumbnails of all the the rest of the associated images. It is a bit of a hack but it does seem to work! I was wondering if (a) you could look and tell me if I have done it in a reasonable way or if I could do it differently and (b) if this was something that could be added as an option for all places where multiple images are displayed.

Many, many thanks to all involved for a fantastic product.

Regards
Guy Smile

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Edited: Thursday, May 28, 2009 by guyheiser
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Posted Friday, May 29, 2009 - Post #24141
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Hi there Guy,
I'm not surprised your search of the forum drew a blank - I too find it a bit like the proverbial searching for a needle in a haystack sometimes. Perhaps a few more 'stickies' would help. However help is out there if you look hard enough - try this post Customising your Narrative Report. You can just amend the defaults in a Custom skin as you suggest or you can use GenoPro 'Document' Custom Tags. I believe all is explained in the attachment to the post refered to.

The stylesheet filename is relative to the folder containing your .gno/.xml/.ged file on which the report is to be run.

Regarding your skin customisations, I'm a self-taught HTML/scripting coder an so would not presume to comment on the coding of others - if it does the job you want then that is good enough in my opinion.

I personally store census images in a source citation for the individual rather than directly  under that person. A slideshow of source documents under a citation is not so out of place.

'lego audio video erro ergo disco' or "I read, I listen, I watch, I make mistakes, therefore I learn"
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Hello Guy, or anyone else related. I think I have a connection. My grandmother was Vera Szczuryk. Her sister was Annie, my dad's favourite aunt. Dad was Ranon Nathan Woolrich. I think I met Hana Schorr at Annie's house when I was a child. I was very surprised to find Adam lived until 1994. I knew her mother was murdered in the war.

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