Getting started with your Joaktree component
Go to the page Family trees and click on New.
Enter the following information here.
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Name of tree
The most logical choice for the name of the tree is the family name of the descendants of the root person.
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ID of root person
This is the ID of the person, of whom the descendants are shown in the tree.
See also the previous step for looking up the ID.
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Introduction text
The introduction text will be shown on the index page.
It may be left empty too.
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After entering the information, save the tree and perform the following steps.
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Check that the name of the root person. Is this indeed the person you intended when you filled in its ID?
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If the newly created trees is unpublished,
click on the red icon to publish the tree.
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You have to link the persons in your database with this newly created tree.
Click on assign family tree to start this process.
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