Libro Web

El WebBook permite generar páginas web, a partir de un archivo genealógico para ser colocado localmente, en una llave USB privada para compartir con familiares, o en un sitio público de Internet.

Comentario de un usuario:

Este pequeño libro es realmente conveniente, agradable de usar y lo suficientemente completo como para pasar por la genealogía de uno.
Puede que no sepa cómo usar otro software de genealogía correctamente, pero cuando hice una exportación web con ellos, encontré el resultado duro y menos intuitivo.

Si no desea poner su árbol genealógico y datos en un sitio web, no hay problema, puede hacer una copia local en cualquier soporte (disco duro, llave USB ...) y consultarlo con cualquier navegador de Internet.

Descripción

La imagen anterior es un ejemplo del Libro Web con el árbol genealógico de Kennedy.

Un extracto de las páginas de detalles de Individuos se ve así:

El WebBook funciona con la vista de mapa si desea generar un mapa.

Navegación en las páginas generadas

Las páginas generadas constituyen las secciones de un "libro web". Muchas secciones son accesibles desde la página de inicio y parte del contenido se puede personalizar.

Apellidos: En esta sección se enumeran los apellidos y su frecuencia de aparición en el árbol genealógico.

Lista de Individuos: Esta sección enumera todos los individuos en el árbol en orden alfabético.

Detalles personales: Esta sección proporciona una descripción detallada de todas las personas. Para cada individuo, hay detalles sobre nacimiento, matrimonio y otros eventos. Los detalles también incluyen abuelos, padres, medio hermanos y medias hermanas, matrimonios, hijos, relaciones (padrinos, madrina, testigos, etc.) y notas. Esta sección también muestra hasta cinco fotos o medios relacionados con cada individuo o su(s) matrimonio(s). Para cada evento, un icono de fuente le permite ver si existe una fuente. Simplemente haga clic en el icono para verlo. Las imágenes y los medios de las fuentes no se muestran en esta sección sino en la sección fuentes.

Fuentes: La primera página de esta sección muestra la lista de todas las fuentes de la genealogía. Las siguientes páginas dan los detalles de cada fuente. Los detalles de la fuente incluyen, cuando estén disponibles, el texto de la fuente y las imágenes y los medios de la fuente y las personas y familias asociadas. Si el medio no es una imagen, se considera que el documento tiene una naturaleza diferente y se muestra una imagen que representa un archivo multimedia. Al hacer clic en la imagen, aparece el documento de origen en su tamaño original o inicia los medios (sonido, video, etc.).

Fotos y otros medios: La primera página de esta sección muestra una lista de todos los medios en la genealogía que están asociados con individuos y familias. Las siguientes páginas dan las imágenes de estos medios en forma de álbum de fotos. Esta sección no contiene el material fuente. Si el medio no es una imagen, se considera que el documento es de otra naturaleza y se muestra una imagen que representa un archivo multimedia. Al hacer clic en la imagen, aparece el documento de origen en su tamaño original o inicia los medios (sonido, video, etc.). Si no se encuentra el medio, una imagen lo indica, lo que le permite rectificar su genealogía si es necesario.

Mapa geográfico: esta sección muestra un mapa geográfico con la ubicación de todas las ciudades identificadas en el árbol genealógico. Este mapa es interactivo y puede ampliar, mostrar antepasados o primos, nacimiento, matrimonio o muerte, o eventos entre dos años determinados. Al hacer clic en una ciudad, verá la información principal sobre los eventos que tuvieron lugar allí. Estos mapas solo funcionan si las coordenadas de las ubicaciones existen y son correctas. Para esto, se recomienda revisar la vista de mapa Geográfico.

Lista de ciudades: Esta sección proporciona la lista de ciudades donde tuvo lugar al menos un evento en el árbol genealógico.

Cities details: This section details for each location all the events that took place there. If you have generated the map, a small icon may show you the location of the city on the map.

Family Calendar: This section lists the days of the year when at least one event in the family tree took place.

Calendar Details: This section details for each day of the year all the events that took place there.

Statistics: This section presents the frequency of surnames, places and days of the year, from the most to the least frequent.

Inbreeding degree: This section presents the inbreeding ratio of the selected main individual.

Ancestors List: This section presents the ancestors of the selected main individual. The ancestors are displayed in ascending order of Sosa number.

Individuals search: This section is a tool to search for individuals in your family tree using a set of criteria.

Web book generation wizard

The wizard assists you to customize the pages of the Web book through 7 panels. At the end, it shows you the log of the generation.

Welcome page

This panel customizes the Welcome page of your family tree book.

Hovering over a field displays a tooltip explaining its role.

Book's title: title of your Genealogy book. It appears on the home page and in the title bar of the browser.
Author: name of the author of your Genealogy.
- Address: address of the author.
- Phone number & Email: contact information of the author.
Message: check the box and write a message to display it at the beginning of the home page.
Display the longest line of ancestors: display information about the longest ancestor line in your Genealogy.
Display the most frequent place: display this statistic on the home page.

Individuals

De-cujus person: main individual who will be accessible from the home page, and from whom the longest line of ancestors and the ancestor report will be built.
Unknown individuals: This is used to designate a person whose first and last names are unknown (example: you can put the word "unknown" in this field).
Display: information to display in the individuals details sections
- Spouses: display spouses information
- Children: display children underneath the family information
- Step-brothers and step-sisters: display step-brothers and step-sisters. These are referred to as uterin or consanguineous siblings.
- Relations: display the relationships of the individual (events' witnesses, godparents, etc.)
- Notes : add the notes associated with individuals and families.
- Identification numbers: adds Ancestris ID numbers after the person's name.
- Button to send mail to the author: display a "send email" icon at each individual section so that the visitor can easily send an email to the author about this individual.
Private data:
- Hide private data: hides data defined in the privacy preferences.
- Preferences: takes you to the privacy preferences to change them if necessary for the Web book
  - On a PHP site, private data will be generated but hidden ; a profile php function will have to exist in the site.
  - On an html site, data is static and private information will not be generated at all

Multimedia

Sources
- Source section creation: add a section to access sources.
- Drop-down menu: choose how you want sources to be displayed : with the individual information only, with the text of the source and with the media.
- Local copy of original sources: copy the original documents to your destination directory (local or website). Otherwise, file links are used. It is recommended not to select this option if the total size of your documents is large. If you later want to have these documents on your website, you can always replace the link files with smaller size files using the copy function of your system.
Media
- Media section creation: add a section to access media.
- Local copy of original media: copy the original media files to your destination directory (local or website).
  Otherwise, link files are used. This option is similar to the source option described above.
Map
- Geographical map creation: add a section to display of map of events.
- Display unfound places: display markers for cities whose coordinates were not found. Markers will appear in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

Ascending Report

Generation of ancestors list: add the ancestor report using the De-cujus individual as the root. In this case you will be asked for the following options when generating this section
- First generation to display: generation number from which the ancestors list will start.
- Latest generation to display: generation number to which the ancestors list will stop.
- Display sources: choose if and how to display sources in the ancestors report.

Local copy

Save WebBook locally: specify the directory where the WebBook will be located on your disk. It is this directory that you will consult locally with an internet browser if you do not want have your genealogy on the Internet. If you want to upload it onto an Internet web site, the content of this directory will be uploaded. This is an option on the next panel.

Watch out! This directory must be empty, otherwise the documents it contains will be deleted.

Save WebBook transfer log file: indicate the directory where the WebBook creation log report will be located. It will contain the step-by-step creation and possible errors.

Transferring - optional

If you only want to generate the pages locally, uncheck the first check box and simply click Next.

Upload web pages on web site: uploads the pages that were saved locally on a website of your choice. You will need to provide additional information to enable the upload. These are the following options. If you choose to upload the pages on a website, the report will ask you to fill in the name of a log file. This file will contain a complete list of the uploaded files.
Website FTP address: address of your FTP site. Ex: ftp.mysite.myinternetprovider.com
Root directory: target directory where the pages must be uploaded. ex: /home/
FTP user name: login to be used to access the FTP site.
FTP password: password to access the FTP site.
Site description: the sentence you will put here will appear in the headers of the html pages created as "meta name - Description". This element is important, because robots, search engines, will use this to index your pages.
Transfer type: allows you to improve the upload time. For example, if a photo of an ancestor is generated in the WebBook but it is identical to the one previously uploaded, there is no need to upload it again.
- Drop-down menu: three options are possible: transfer all locally generated files to the server, even if they have not changed; transfer only those that have changed; or transfer those that have changed and also delete from the server those that are no longer generated.
- Reset transfer history: restart file transfers from scratch. This will mean that all files will be systematically uploaded the next time they are transferred. The registry retains the details of the previous uploads and therefore allows you to determine which of the newly generated files need to be uploaded again. As long as you only use the WebBook to upload your pages, you should not need to reset the registry. However, if you sometimes use another FTP client, this registry may need to be completely refreshed, which is done by checking this option.
Program to launch after generation: name of a executable program to launch at the end of the WebBook creation. If the first character is '0' then this option is ignored. Launching a program at the end can be useful if there are still other things to do on your site to finalize its update.
Save transfer log file: directory where the upload log report will be saved. This log report shows the results of the uploaded pages.

PHP site integration - optional

If you only want to generate the pages locally, uncheck the first check box and simply click Finish.

This part is technical and requires to know the principles of a PHP site including very precise page structures.

PHP site: if you want to leverage the fact that your site is written in PHP
Codes: username and password used to view private information.
Existing site: check this box if the genealogy pages are integrated in a larger site, and must then respect the same headers and footers for example
Private data: Indicate here the name of the PHP function that will test the codes for private data.
Scripts: Indicate here the PHP scripts corresponding to the different components of your PHP website

Result of the creation of the pages

Ancestris displays the Output window at the end of the process. You will see each of the two logs: creation of the pages and transfer of the pages if you asked for the upload..

Here is an example of a successful pages creation.

Result of the transfer

Here is an example of an unsuccessful transfer.

Additional information

Private information is managed using the Ancestris options. If an individual is considered private according to the Ancestris options, the WebBook will display "..." instead of the plain text details.
The Sosa numbering is taken into account if the labels "_SOSA" or "_SOSADABOVILLE" have been generated. Check out the Generate Sosa numbers documentation. Make sure in this case that the main DeCujus individual defined at the beginning of the WebBook is the same as for the Sosa numbers.
If the local directory in which the pages will be saved is not empty, a message tells you so.
Generated html pages are W3C XHTML 1.0 certified.
Special characters are replaced in the pages by the equivalent html sequence (example: "é" is replaced by "é")
In order to optimize performance, media and source files are not copied (or linked) if they already exist in the target directory. To force this copy (or these links), just delete the files in the target directory.
A feature makes it easy for the website user to send email to the author
An feature saves considerable amount of time by only uploading files whose content has changed. This works very well as long as the WebBook is the only program used to upload pages because it keeps the details of the files transferred each time.