What Is a Web Project?
Creating Web Project
Elements of a Web Project
Sources, Pictures, and Privacy Filtering in Web Projects
Trees
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Media Pages
Web Report Settings
A web project is a report designed exclusively to be viewed with a web browser. It contains a group of related elements and pages linked together, created simultaneously, and saved in one folder.
The main elements of a web project are...
Other pages of a web project include: sources, index, surnames, cover page, and search facilities.
When you publish a web project that includes family cards and trees, other people can browse your information and view it much the way you do in Reunion — with easy-to-understand, three-generation family views and (up to) five-generation trees for navigating through your family information. Web projects that include person sheets and/or media pages will provide additional detail for those who want to dig deeper.
To create a web project...
The panel below will appear.
In the
panel, the "Who" section provides the option to include...Note: if "families with a marked spouse" are included in a web project, then both the husband and wife of a family will be included, even if one is not marked. Similarly, if "families with both spouses marked" are included in a web project, then the parents and children of the couple will be included, even if they are not marked; however, you can't click on their names and go anywhere. Likewise, if trees are included in the project, you may see the names of people who are unmarked (including multiple generations); however, their names are not linked to any records if they are not included in a family card.
Up to four different elements may be included in a web project. Follow the links below for more information about each element.
To include different elements in a web project...
Note: all web projects must include either family cards and/or person sheets.
Sources, Pictures, and Privacy Filtering in Web Projects
In the
panel, buttons are provided to include sources, pictures, and privacy filtering. These are discussed below.To include sources in a web project, check the
button (in the panel).Sources appear in separate web pages that are linked by citation numbers in family cards and person sheets.
If your web project does not include person sheets with family cards, then source citations will appear on the family cards. If you do include person sheets, source citations appear on the person sheets, but not on the family cards.
Click here for information about source settings in web reports and to see an example source page.
More general information about sources is here.
URLs in Web Reports: If the length of a URL in a source record is 80 characters or less, the entire URL will appear in the web report. However, if the URL is over 80 characters in length, it will appear reformatted like this: "[first 50 chars]...[last 20 chars]." Clicking the link will take you to the correct URL but the URL displayed in the web report will be reformatted if it is over 80 characters in length.
To include pictures in a web project, check the
button (in the panel).Pictures can be included in three different places...
In family cards and person sheets, only one picture per person (the preferred picture) will appear. In media pages, a setting determines which type(s) of media items are included. Learn more.
Settings for preferred pictures in web reports are explained here.
Click here for information about media page settings and to see an example media page.
Privacy Filtering in Web Projects
To enable privacy filtering in a web project, check the
button (in the panel).Privacy filtering is explained here.
In the
panel, enter a master title for the web project by typing directly into the Title field. Titles will appear at the top of each page. The name of the individual report will be appended to the title.For example, if you type "My Web Project" in the title field of the
panel, then the top of person sheets will say "My Web Project — Person Sheet." And the top of family cards will say "My Web Project — Family Card."In the
panel, use the button to select the destination of your web projects.There are two destination choices for web projects: your web browser or a web folder. Both will create a web folder (containing the report, ready for uploading to your web site); however the destination of your web browser will instantly open the report in your web browser for you to peruse.
Styles
The current web style applies to all elements of a web project (when the web project is created). To change this...
Learn more about web styles.
Family cards are simplified versions of Reunion's "family view" for viewing in a web browser. Like the family view in Reunion, family cards are linked together by child and parent buttons, meaning that people who browse your family cards on the web can navigate through your information much like you do using Reunion.
If you like the 3-generation family view metaphor used by Reunion, you will like family cards. More importantly, when people browse your information on the web, they will likely understand the simple family card metaphor and design, which has always been one of the hallmarks of Reunion.
Here is a sample web family card, as it might appear on the iPad.
To include family cards in a web project...
Like the family view in Reunion, the family card in a web project doesn't show all the detail about each person. Rather, it is a navigational tool with enough detail to see "where you are" in the family file.
To include more information for each person, you have the option to include a person sheet for each person in the web project. If the
button is checked, your preferred image for each person is automatically included in person sheets (cropped and/or magnified exactly as you want them to appear). For still more detail, check the button and your web project will include all the multimedia items for each person in the web project.In the
panel, different family card layouts may be selected by clicking the button, next to the "Family cards" element, as shown below.To edit or create custom family card layouts, click the here.
button and choose Define Layouts. Layouts are explainedKeep in mind that, like the family view in Reunion, a family card in a web project is designed to be a navigational interface. If you include person sheets in a web project, then it's easy for somebody browsing your data to "drill down" and see more detail when they find a person of interest. (They do this simply by clicking the husband or wife's name on a family card; like you do in the family view.) And, extending the analogy further, when they want to "drill down" to see more pictures of a person, they just click on any picture thumbnail or camera icon on any page.
Here is additional information about the layout of family cards in web projects...
Navigating a Family Card on the Web
Since a web project could be created for any subset of people in your family file, Reunion has to choose a family card to be the "home card." Reunion's first choice is the family in the current view when you select Reports > Web Project. If the current family is not part of the web project (for example, if you create a web project for a group of marked people but you initiate the project from a family that has no marked people), then the second choice is the family that appears when Reunion opens the family file. If that card is not in the web project then the lowest numbered family record in the project becomes the home card for the web project.
In a web project, a "tree" refers to a 5-generation pedigree chart designed specifically to be viewed in a web browser. Its purpose is to provide a quick overview and easy navigation for people perusing your information online. Here's a (reduced size) example...
To include trees in a web project...
Navigating a Tree on the Web