Getting started with your Joaktree component

1. Installation
2. Getting started - step 1: set up your parameters
3. Getting started - step 2: process your GedCom file
4. Getting started - step 3: create a family tree
5. Getting started - step 4: publish your family tree

    5.1 Maintain your data
    5.2 Publish an index - Joaktree start page
    5.3 Publish a search list - Joaktree list of persons
    5.4 Publish a page for the root person - Joaktree person

6. Keeping your trees up and running


5. Getting started - step 4: publish your family tree

5.1 Maintain your data

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.

  1. 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    When a person is unpublished, this person is hidden and cannot be viewed.
     
  2. 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.
     
  3. 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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5.2 Publish an index - Joaktree start page

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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5.3 Publish a search list - Joaktree list of persons

The following parameters are used for the person list page.

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5.4 Publish a page for the root person - Joaktree person

The following parameters are used for the person page.

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