GEDCOM Explorer

The GedcomGEDCOM Explorer is a special Ancestris window dedicated to the exploration of each open Gedcom file.

Description

It appears in the upper left corner of Ancestris, asin the form of a simpleconcealed shutterwindow with a vertical tab.button.

It is always present and always available, even if it can be temporarily hidden.

The Window / GedcomGEDCOM Explorer menu action allows you to display it.

The content of the Gedcom Explorer pane displays a summary of the different entities enteredincluded in the Gedcom files currently open in Ancestris. If no genealogicalgenealogy file is openopen, init the application, Gedcom Exploreronly displays only a blank page.

Each file opened in Ancestris is presented in Gedcom Explorer as a three-level tree structure.

• First level: the name of the opengenealogy genealogical file.file
• Second level: the name of one of the seven categories of entities,entities, followed in brackets by the number of entities.
• Third level: the name of the entities

The tree structure is similar to that found in most file managers.

• For a better reading, the different lines are indented according to their level in the hierarchy
• To limit the use of the vertical scrollbar, a flap allows you to show or hide the content of the lower level by clicking on it.

In the example above, we see the Open GedcomGEDCOM Explorer pane, showingwith two open Genealogies, those of Kennedy and the Bourbons. We see for example that there are 210 individuals in the Kennedy genealogy, and 303 in the Bourbon genealogy. We can also see from the flaps that the Bourbon Sources and Notes entities are visible.

 Utilisation Usage

The GedcomGEDCOM Explorer allowshelps theyou consultationselect and the counting ofcount all the entities containedincluded in the various genealogy files currently open in Ancestris.

In

It addition,also it allowsprovides a certain number of rather practical manipulations.possibilities.

 Selection

A simple click on a line (a left click) allows you to select it.

One can thus select an open Gedcom file, a category of entity (within such or such Gedcom), or an entity belonging to such or such category.

• For example, if several genealogy files are opened simultaneously, the selection of one of them allows its closure (via File / Close menu). Thus, all the windows associated with this file (there may be many of them) will close in a single operation, while the windows associated with the other genealogies will remain open.

Double-click

A double-click selectionon (carrieda outline exclusivelywith a flap unfolds or folds the lines underneath.

A double-click on an entity) displays this entity inselects the differententity viewsand (especiallymakes it the editors), provided that these views are able to manage the category to which the selected entity belongs..

ContextualContext menu

A right click on a Gedcom Explorerline allowsopens a specific Gedcom context menu where you can perform a number of actions:

• Save, Properties and Close are described in the useFile ofMenu.
• The other menu items are also in the Ancestrismain Main Context Menu,Menu.
accessible by right-clicking.

TheA list of different commands available in this menu dependsright-click on thea category of entity does nothing.

A right-click on whichan entity line opens the rightContext clickMenu.From wasthere, made.you can achieve many actions liek creating other entities, editing them, using tools and reports, etc.

 

Possible configurations of the window

RetractedConcealed

The retractedconcealed paneposition is the default shapeposition of the GedcomGEDCOM Explorer when Ancestris is opened.

In this form, the tab remains at the top of the left edge of the main window and the panepanel is usually hidden.

To show the GedcomGEDCOM Explorer pane.

• either, hover (for a few fractions of a second) over its tab with the mouse
• or, more radically, click on this tabbutton
• either,or activateaccess it from the main menu command/ Window / GedcomGEDCOM Explorer

To hide the GedcomGEDCOM Explorer pane again.

• either, hover with the mouse (for a few fractions of a second) over any part of the screen outside this frame
• or, more radically, click again on the tab in questionbutton

When the retracted panepanel is displayed, GedcomGEDCOM Explorer can take the form of an anchored panepanel by clicking on the Anchoranchor pin, located at the top right of the open pane.

Anchored

The frame panepanel anchored to the main window is a non-overlapping pane: GedcomGEDCOM Explorer is therefore always visiblevisible, (as long as the main window remains in the foreground).foreground.

From this anchored frame pane, GedcomGEDCOM Explorer can take the following forms.

• A frameopen panepanel in a secondary window, using the Undock command of the pop-up menu managing the panepanel and window control, opened by right-clicking on the panepanel tab.
• A retractedconcealed panepanel
  • either by using the Reduce window group button located at the top right of this anchored frameframe. shutterIt (return to the initial state as a closed retracted shutter)
  • or by means of the menu command Window / Gedcom Explorer (returnreturns to the initial state in the form of an open retractedconcealed pane)panel
  • or by means of the menu command main menu / Window / GEDCOM Explorer. It returns to the initial state in the form of an open concealed panel

PanePanel in secondary window

The frameGedcom sashexplorer can be put in a secondaryfloating window, or freed, via the actions of the window ismenu.

a sash that has been unanchored, i.e. a frame incorporated in a secondary window (or floating window).

In this case, the Gedcom Explorer is independentautonomous from the main window from which it has been detached.

From this frame pane located in a secondaryfreed window, the Gedcom Explorer can take the following forms.

• AnA anchoreddocked frame pane,panel, using the AnchorDock command ofin the context menu that manages the control of panes and windows opened by right-clicking on the pane's tab.
• A retractedconcealed pane,panel, usingvia the main menu command/ Window / GedcomGEDCOM Explorer (return. It returns to the initial state asin the form of an open retractedconcealed pane)panel