Family Historian User Group

I find myself frequently tailoring FH's diagrams to fit a page, whether for publication or to send to another researcher. Even though it is sometimes a bit labourious, I can achieve most things by splitting off a gedcom containing only the individuals I want and then exporting the diagram to a photo editor where the boxes can be moved around using using cut and paste to fit on a page.

A really useful feature would be to have expansion buttons between the children bar and each of the children. (This would be in addition to the button we presently have between the parents and the children bar). The ticks one would then get on the children bar would then indicate the number of children without needing to devote space to their names.
This would be particularly useful to turn off the box for child who does not produce offspring, while still showing the presence of the child, thus saving precious page space.

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I think this is probably equivalent to something I would suggest - to be able to mark some of the members of an expansion group so that they do not disappear when the group is collapsed.

With a descendent chart, for example, you might wish to produce an illustration containing only one (or two) of the children of a family group, but the present choices are all or none.

Maybe an expansion button for each child is a good way to implement this.

BTW, I think expansion buttons are a brilliant idea, and (as far as I know) unique to FH.

I agree your implementation of the idea would be very useful and save time compared with my suggestion since with yours you would just have to indicate somehow the people to be retained and all the boxes in between could be selected automatically.

My idea has the advantage that a tick and expansion button can be retained for each child not displayed with a box. I have often seen this type of display used in hand constructed charts to indicate presence children where no more information is required to be displayed. It has the advantage of compressing the chart.

Please may we have both?

On wish list as
Option to hide even more boxes in diagrams (e.g. spouses or siblings)