Getting started with your Joaktree component
All persons in your Joaktree component will have three attributes.
These parameters can be set and changed by you on the Person page.
When you update these settings they will NOT be written over when you synchronize a new GedCom file.
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published
When a person is published, this person is shown in the viewer.
When a person is unpublished, this person is hidden and cannot be viewed.
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living
When a person is living (and also is published),
only the name of this person is shown in the viewer.
When a person is not living (and also is published),
all available information - like birth date and death date - of this person is shown in the viewer.
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page
When a person has page (and also is published),
this person will have its own page in the viewer and can be searched for in the lists.
When a person has no page (and also is published),
this person is shown as child or spouse of another person, but has no link to its own page.
(This is a feature to hide children who died young or are still born.)
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Joaktree has three defined layouts for publishing your genealogical information.
Go to the menu module of your Joomla! installation and create a new menu item.
Here you have to select the menu item type.
Click on JOaktree and you will see the three Joaktree types.
The front end parameters can be set for the component in the parameter settings.
These parameters can be overwritten for every menu item.
In this and the following paragraphs it is explained what these parameters are and do.
The following parameters are used for the start page.
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Color table heading
Here you can edit your own color for the table heading.
Default is: white (ffffff)
Enter the hexadecimal value without the #.
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Color table heading text
Here you can edit your own color for the letters in the table heading.
Default is: black (000000)
Enter the hexadecimal value without the #.
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Width of search box
Here you can edit the width of the search box for the table of persons.
Default is: 10
This parameters is pure for preventing to optimize the look and feel for your own template.
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Number of index columns
Here you can set the number of columns for your index.
If you do not want to show an index, choose the value 0.
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Number letters in index group
Here you have an option to group index letters together.
For example, value 3 will show letters [A, B, C] together
followed by letters [D,E,F] and so forth.
If you want every letter separately shown in your index, choose the value 0.
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The following parameters are used for the person list page.
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Color table heading
Here you can edit your own color for the table heading.
Default is: white (ffffff)
Enter the hexadecimal value without the #.
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Color table heading text
Here you can edit your own color for the letters in the table heading.
Default is: black (000000)
Enter the hexadecimal value without the #.
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The following parameters are used for the person page.
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Show lineage
On top of every page is shown how the person descends from the root person with name XYZ.
- Only first names
- First names and family names
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First names and family names when the family name is different than the parent name.
This is especially true for female lineage.
- No lineage is shown
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Picture settings
On every page a picture is shown for which the following settings are used.
This line can be very long and there are a couple of options how this line is shown.
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Base image Directory
This is the directory in which all other directories with pictures are located.
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Heigth in pixels
This is heigth of the pictures.
When either the heigth or the width is empty or 0, the sizes of the picture itself are taken.
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Width in pixels
This is width of the pictures.
When either the heigth or the width is empty or 0, the sizes of the picture itself are taken.
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Transition Delay
This is transition delay in ms of two pictures when the option "sorted" or "shuffled" is chosen.
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Next Image Delay
This is delay in ms between pictures when the option "sorted" or "shuffled" is chosen.
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Slideshow title
This is text which is shown when the viewer has javascript disabled in his browser.
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Display Sequence?
There are the followin options for this parameter.
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Disable
No pictures are shown.
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Sorted
When more than one picture is in the directory, the pictures are shown in a slide show.
The order in which the pictures are shown is sorted alphabetically.
No titles are shown in a slide show.
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Shuffle
When more than one picture is in the directory, the pictures are shown in a slide show.
The order in which the pictures are shown is shuffled every time.
No titles are shown in a slide show.
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Show one picture without title
When more than one picture is in the directory, only one of the pictures is shown.
The selection of the picture is done randomly. No title is shown for this option.
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Show one picture with title
When more than one picture is in the directory, only one of the pictures is shown.
The selection of the picture is done randomly. This is the option for showing the title of the picture.
The title is the file name of the picture taken to the first dot.
For example: when the file name is grandfather abraham.1.jpg the title is shown as grandfather abraham.
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