Copie d'entités entre généalogies

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Description

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Veuillez noter que les 3 listes de chaque côté (généalogie, type d'entité et entités) sont interdépendantes.
- Lorsque vous modifiez la sélection de généalogie, le type d'entité et l'entité sont mis à jour
- Lorsque vous modifiez le type d'entité, l'entité est mise à jour

Veuillez également noter que toutes les informations figurant dans le reste de la fenêtre dépendent de ces 6 sélections. Lorsque vous modifiez l'une des six sélections, le reste de la fenêtre ci-dessous est mis à jour.

Sélection d'action

Trois actions sont possibles et elles dépendent des généalogies et entités sélectionnées ci-dessus.

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Copy

This action tells Ancestris, when pressing OK later, to simply copy from the Source genealogy to the Target genealogy the entity selected in the entity selector and all the entities selected below.

This will be a simple copy. No attachment nor mege of any sort will be done.

If this action is your intention, then the target entity selected has no importance and you can leave the default selection.

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Merge (= Copy and Merge)

This action tells Ancestris, when pressing OK later, to perform the same copy action as above and to also merge the Source entity to the Target entiy after the copy has been made.

This action is only possible if both entities are of the same type.

Another choice is to be made here. This is the way you want to perform the merge. You have 3 possibilities.

1. Adding - Merge by adding the information of the source entity to the target entity.
2. Replacing - Merge by replacing the information of the target entity by the information of the source entity when there is a conflict.
3. Assistant - Merge using the Merge Assistant. You will decide on a case by case basis what to do with the conflicting information. The merge assistant will be displayed after the copy is completed.

Copy as well other entities selection

Depending on the selections above, a number of entities are likely to be brought along the transfer from the Source genealogy to the Target genealogy.

You have the possibility to select very precisely which entity you want to include in the copy action.

Other entities are displayed in several possible groups.

Attribute entities of the source entity

Attributes are non individual nor family entities, so they are notes, medias, sources, repositories and submitters.

Ancestris displays the available attributes of the source entity, and how many of them are. 

This section applies to any type of entity source selected.

If you leave the mouse over the attribute type, Ancestris will disply the list in the tool tip.

In the image above, to include the 3 multimedias in the copy, leave the chech box selected. To exclude them, unselect it.

If you select or unselect a check box, the total number of entities being copied is updated. This number does not include the source entity which is always copied.

In the image above, we can see that the source entity, in this case the individual entity "John Fitzgerald Kennedy", does not have any Note entity attached to it. So the Note box does not appear.

Family of the source entity

In this section, you can see and select individuals of the parent family of the source individual selected.

It is only displayed if the source entity is of type Individual and if this person has a family of biological parents in the source genealogy.

Here is an example of what you will see.

You will see the family members from the perspective of the source individual: father, mother, brothers, sisters.

The source individual is not displayed again here.

Scope

For each person, you wil see the attribute entities if you press the "Show details" button on the right hand side of each person. In the image above, details are displayed for the father.

For each person, you will have the possibility to include the ancestors or descendants of that person. You can choose between 2 types of scope here.

• Ancestors only (for the ascendants of the source individual) / Descendants only for the descendants of the source individual) : only direct ancestors or direct descendants are included. Direct in the sense of "blood related", SOSA related.
  In this case, spouses of descendants and siblings of ancestors are not included. 
• Full branch: this will tell Ancetris to include the whole family group of the person in the copy action. So spouses of descendants and siblings of ancestors will be included in that case.

When ancestors, descendants or branches are included in the copy, Ancestris will add the corresponding entities in the details shown.

In the image above, we can see that the full branch of the Father of the source individual includes 68 individuals and 27 families, as well as 2 multimedias and 32 sources.

You can choose to unselect Multimedia and sources, but you cannot unselect 68 Inddividuals nor 27 families. To exclude them from the copy, just unselect "Ancestors only".

Note: if you select "Full branch", it will automaticaly select "Ancestors only". If you unselect "Ancestors only", it will unselect "Full branch", because one scope is included in the other scope.

Person displayed as disabled

Sometimes, a person could appear as disabled. Here is an example where Father and Mother are displayed as disabled.

A person appears as disabled and will be excluded from the copy if it cannot be copied based on the action and parameters selected.

In the image above, we can see the action is to attach John Kennedy as son of Maria Medicis in the CAPET X MEDICIS family.

If the attachment is successful, John's parents will be Henri IV and Maria de Medicis. So the source parents, Joseph Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald cannot also be the parents of John in the target family. Hence Ancestris disables that possibility.

If you really want to bring Joseph and Rose along in the copy action, you would have to choose a "new" family in the family list box.

Non biological families of the source entity

According to the same principle as the parent family, Ancestris will also display in this section all the found non biological families of the source individual.

It is only displayed if the source entity is of type Individual and if this person has non biological parents in the source genealogy.

Unions of the source entity

According to the same principle as the parent family, Ancestris will also display in this section all the found unions of the source individual.

It is only displayed if the source entity is of type Individual and if this person has unions in the source genealogy.

Aliases of the source entity

This section lists all the aliases of the source individual.

It is only displayed if the source entity is of type Individual and if this person has aliases in the source genealogy.

Local Media files

This section lists all the medias files involved in the selected entities above.

It is only displayed if both genealogies are different, if entities of type media/multimedia are included in the copy and if they themselves refer to local media files.

Reminder: media files are regular image, videos, sound, etc. files that are linked to the Gedcom genealogy data using file addresses called file paths.
Each piece of genealogy data that needs to reference a Media uses a FILE property in Ancestris to store the file path to the media file. This helps Ancestris find the file and display it. 

If some of the entities you copy across are Media entities, you will want the corresponding files to be stored among your other media files of the target genealogy. 

• For remote files, those using a web address, you may decide to leave the files remotely, or to download them. Either way, we suggest you to use the Ancestris Media manager after the entities are copied across. The media manager includes a tool to download remote files. In the tool described in this page, Ancestris will not alter their path and will copy them leaving the file path unchanged.
• For local files, those using a local file path, Ancestris will make a copy of the media files and store them in a directory of your choice - the target root directory - and modify the file path accordingly.

Choice of target root directory for copied Media files

You have to indicate one target directory to store the media files of the Source genealogy. It does not mean that all files will be in this directory, but that this directory will be a root directory and the file path structure will define correponding sub-directories to store the media files.

We highly recommend that you indicate a relative directory, i.e. a directory underneath the directory of your target genealogy Gedcom file. 

You can choose otherwise and indicate an absolute directory. This will force all files paths to be absolute for these newly added media files, including file paths that were relative in the source genealogy.

Relative vs Absolute file paths: the benefit of relative paths is that you will maintain the links between your Gedcom file and the media files even if you move the whole Gedcom  directory somewhere else or rename it (as long as you do not rename nor change the sub-directories)

We highly recommend that you indicate a temporary directory

• Use a temporary directory if your habit is to store media files in distinct directories depending on their nature (images, videos) or what they represent (people photographs, source documents), or the type of events (births, marriages). Ancestris will store the files there and you will take the time later to properly dispatch them manually one by one in their final directories.  
• Alternatively, use the directory of your media files if your habit is to store all media files in one single directory.

By default, Ancestris will propose a directory in the Gedcom file directory.

Ancestris will not erase existing files in the Target Root directory. If you make several extracts of the same Source genealogy to the same Target genealogy, it is possible to reuse the same Target Root directory for Media files.

Media file path transformation

Ancestris will replicate the Source sub-directory structure underneath the Target Root directory

By default, if the target root directory is relative, all file paths of copied media files will be relative.

If a file path is absolute and the root directory is relative, Ancestris will replicate the sub-directory structure as relative to the Gedcom file directory.

If a file path is relative and the target root directory is absolute, Ancestris will keep the sub-directory structure underneath the target root directory.

If files are located within different directory structures in the source genealogy, Ancestris will create these structures within the root directory.

Of course, it would be nice to help arrange all the media files to your filing tastes, but that would make this tool a bit cumbersome to use. Please use the Media Manager tool instead once files are well attached to your Target genealogy.

Media files not found

Found files will be copied to their target sub-directory locations as per the Source directory structure.

If a media file is not found, it will simply just not be copied. Its file path will be transformed as described above when necessary.

Usage

The purpose of this tools is dedicated to copying entities across different genealogies. However, the option to use it within the same genealogy is described below.

Across different genealogies

In order to group two differents genealogy files, you can use the simple tool "Menu/FIle/Merge genealogies". This will simply take all entities of both files and create a unique file will all entities inside. It will not actually merge entities which look similar. It merges the files, not the entities.

If you want to be more precise and only extract some of the entities, use the "Copy entities across genealogies" tool described in this page.

This is the typical process to do that.

• Select the genealogy you wish to extract entities from
• Select the entity of the source genealogy you wish to attach to, or merge with, an entity of the target genealogy. We call this the "source entity" although it is not limited to entities of type Source.
• Open the "Copy entities across genealogies" tool from one of the following 3 ways:
  • From the Tools menu
  • From the Context menu with right click on the Source entity
  • From the Drag-and-Drop menu, draging the source entity and droping it to the target entity. At the bottom of this popup menu you will find the option to open the full tool if the pre-selected choices are not enough.
• In the tool window, as described in the previous section, make sure you select the proper source and target genealogy and entities
• Choose the action, copy, attach or merge, that corresponds to your intention and in the case of an attachment, select the parameters
• Select or unselect the involved entities linked to the source entity in the middle section of the window
• Define the media files root directory where media files will be stored
• Press OK

Confirmation

On pressing OK, Ancestris will ask for your confirmation.

By pressing OK, Ancestris will perform the copy of the entities, of the media files, and update the media links. If you asked for the attachment, Ancestris will do it as well.

The whole process is fast and takes from less than a second to a few seconds.

If you need to undo it, press undo a a few times. Please be aware that the copy of the local media files on your disk storage cannot be undone. You would have to delete the target root directory manually. Hence our recommendation to use a relative temporary root directory.

Report

Upon completion, Ancestris will display a report document with the summary and details of all the work that has been done. It lets you know exactly what was done and you can revisit each entity that was copied and where it was copied to.

This is what the report looks like.

In our example, if you want to check visualy that John Kennedy was copied to the Bouron genealogy, we can click on its target ID in the report and we get this.

As you can see in the image below, we are editing the Bourbon genealogy and we can see John Kennedy with the picture. We also can see that all the family was copied across as well and integrated into the Bourbon genealogy.

Within the same genealogy

Within the same genealogy, the only two actions which are likely to be useful are the attachment of one entiy to another one and the merge of two entities. You are better using the dedicated tools for that.

• Attaching entities within the same genealogy can be done using the Context menu actions and the regular editors possibilities. There is no need to use this tool here to do that.
• Merging two entities of the same genealogy is directly made possible using the Context menu and the "Merge with..." action.

In these situation, the entities of the of the "Copy as well" section are unselected by default. Indeed, copying entities within a given genealogy is likely to generate duplicates, so it is not recommended, unless you have a good reason to do so. If no entities are selected, no copy will be made. In case you really want to do it, the copy action remains possible.

In the specific situation where both the genealogies and the entities are the same, only the copy action is available because you cannot attach an entity to itself and you cannot merge an entity to itself.

Copying media files is not possible either as it would not make sense.

Bottom line is that copying, attaching and merging entities within the same genealogy is not the purpose of this tool, but we leave the possibility open in case you have a really good reason to do so.

Customization

There are no customization settings for this tool.