Getting started with your Joaktree component

1. Installation
2. Getting started - step 1: set up your parameters

    2.1 Standard parameters
    2.2 Extra parameters
    2.3 Advanced parameters
    2.4 Front end settings

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
6. Keeping your trees up and running


2. Getting started - step 1: set up your parameters

2.1 Standard parameters

Before you can process your GedCom file, you have to set up some parameters.
Go to the control panel and click the Parameters icon.
The parameters are shown.

The following parameters are used while processing the GedCom file.

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2.2 Extra parameters

Before you process your GedCom file, you have to look at these extra parameters.
 
All persons in your Joaktree component will have three attributes.
These parameters can be set and changed by you on the Person page.

  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    When a person is unpublished, this person is hidden and cannot be viewed.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.)
     

The three paramters are also set while processing the GedCom file for newly added persons to your database.

Note: these settings are only for newly added persons to your database.
Manually set settings for existing persons are NOT written over.

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2.3 Advanced parameters

These are two advanced parameter setting used while processing your GedCom file.

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2.4 Front end settings

These parameters are not used while processing the GedCom file.
These parameters are described here.

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