* Website issues ...

[justone]

Assuming Jane might know the answer

Following problem. I need to hide the NAME entry from the wizzard stage where I need to define the Family Group Sheet and the Individual Summary Report since I have to replace it by
Name %INDI.NAME[1]:GIVEN_ALL% %INDI.NAME[1]:SURNAME% all show even if emtpy, since the original entry doesn't show up the real given names but only the first.

First time I though it'll work but then I noted that I don't get the 1,2,3,... numbers next to the Name entry which allows to directly jump to the linked sources.

Any idea on how to get this fixed ?
Perhaps manual template editing ?

thanks in advance for hints



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[Jane]

That's strange just tried it on mine and the whole name shows up.

ie I show up as
Rosemary Jane Mullins
this is using the standard report for Web on the individual summary.

Could you do a screen grab of a person's name fields on the records window, who is not showing correctly.

Also save your customised version as a custom report and then use the installation settings option on the orginal report to see if it still shows incorrectly.

[justone]

Well using the standard work, but all names such as Anna Elisabeth Someone or Maria Magdalena Anyone show up as Anna Someone and Maria Anyone.

whereas if I use my own NAME field declaration the names work but the links to the sources are lost.

And since 60-70% of my collection does have multiple given names 60-70% is wrong.

Took already an hour to see which modification did cause the loss of the source links in the pages. I didn't assume that it's inbuilt into a standard name field since that's anything but flexible.

But I wonder how you manage to get muiltiple given names shown since the specs and help explains that preferred name means 1st given + surname and preferred name=1 is within the templates as fas as I've seen.

Is there any other config option I might haven't seen yet ?

[Jane]

As my example already posted showed, the standard program does show all the forenames.

See
http://www.fhug.org.uk/samplesite/ind2.html

For an example you can clearly see that all the people with one exception have more than 1 forename. These pages were produced with the standard file as provided with V3. Can you confirm you do not have any sub fields defined on the Name field please.

[justone]

Just did a test with only 50 individuals.
And used installation settings again.
And it worked.
Bet I must have ticked / unticked something else. Wonder what has caused the problem. But I got a complete CD burned yesterday which had that problem on all persons with multiple given names.

Seems as if using installation settings helps from time to time.

Another question. When I tried to run it on my fathers machine yesterday the IE6 refused to load _nameindex.html and _statistics.html. I then installed Firefox which worked. Any idea which setting to look at so that IE does work aswell ?

[Jane]

I am sure it normally works on IE6, but I only have IE7 now and it just opened fine on my machine. I know it would have been tested on IE6 originally as 7 was not out.

Do both your machine and your Fathers run in the same language?

[justone]

Yep, both machines are sort of equal, apart from mine being equipped with all sorts of hotfixes whereas my fathers likely is somewhat outdated. Not to mention that my sisters spouse did install some strange firewall software I'm unused to.

Well not a real problem.

But something matching the subject again.
I now found out what cause my 2GB equipped dual core machine getting close to a crash, at least it runs out of memory.
I felt free to add a source summary report at stage 4. 5 minutes until it end up processing the website on a dual core 3800+ seems to be quite normal then. Watching the tastmanager tells me that FH really tries to eat all multimedia objects into memory, eg. it doesn't process them in sequence but sort of loads it all and then starts processing. And .. when if finally did eat 2,2GB swapping onto the drive to gain more, it finishes and offers the view website button. But you're wrong assuming it'll free memory at that stage. It keeps everythung until the wizzard is ended.
Pretty strange. I wonder what'll happen if I add another 20-50 multimedia objects linked against source records.
I'd rate this a bug, not because it's not working but because the coded strategy could be differnt. Perhaps Simon could have a closer look at it ?

Another question. Is it that the website wizzard only allows jpegs files ?
I wonder since each of my source record does contain jpegs, word docs and other things. And since it's pretty obvicious that a webpage can't display a word document, it could therefore incl. a link pointing to a document being copied into some sort of subdir so that one could download it. I do so since I can't make much use of notes or Actual Text functionality since that's limited to plain unformatted text as far as I know, and I wanted to keep translations of original sources being somewhat tuned up so that printed text from forms looks differnt to textual things being handwritten. All what springs to mind now is to turn the doc files into jpegs aswell so that these could be added to the website. Or is there a way to place hyperlinks into the final pages pointing to source documents ? I did fiddle a bit with the templates but apart from placing a known placeholder into it running a replaceinfiles command from an external editor afterwards, I got no idea.

And another issue. If an entry got 6 sourcedocuments I must declare 6 pics so that all are shown. But how could I ensure that only 2 of them are placed side by side ? eg. 3 rows containing 2 pics each or to at least be able to define the width of the htm pages so that pictures get places below others if adding them to the same line would extent the defined maximum pagewidth.

Perhaps I've also not seen that option.