Lists and reports

This function launches the Ancestris reports available in Ancestris..

There areSome reports can be run directly accessible from the Ancestris Menu, Menu/Tools/Quick Reports.Reports. These
They areare: the Quick List,List, Family Group and Close Relatives reports.

 

Description

This window lists all available reports on the left, and the explanation of the selected report is on the right.

The toolbar allows you to launch the selected report or change the layout of the list.

Toolbar

Start Button

This button starts the selected report. Make sure you have set your launch options beforehand.

Stop Button

This button is used to stop a report that would take too long to run. Indeed, depending on the size of your genealogy, some reports may take time to produce the result.

Sort List Button

This button toggles the list from a category sortlist to an alphabetical sort.list and vice versa.

 

Reports List

The reports in the list are categorizedsorted by default.category: charts, lineages, lists, research, etc.

• Diagrams where reports are grouped together with a graphic rendering
• Reports in development are those that have been developed last and are not fully completed.
• Texts or lists
• Utilities

When a report is selected, its description and launch options appear on the right hand side in the corresponding two tabs.

This list includes reports from several contributors and we gratefully thank them warmly.them. The reports were indeedoriginally the first way for each Ancestris user to covermeet his or her ownspecific needs. It is always possible to programmake your own reports in javaJava programming if you feel like it. We will help you make your first attempts. Check out the contribution pages.

One of the consequences is that the reports aremight quitebe different from one another, and the output formats may depend on each report.

Therefore, it is important to read the description of each one.

Description of a report

The description of the report specifies the author and the date of creation.

In general, you will find an illustration, a description and especiallymainly the explanation of the launch options.

Report Options

This tab allows you to modify the launch options so the explanations are given before.options.

Some reports have a lot of options.

If the options or their explanations are not explicit enough, try to run it on a small amount of data to test the output.

 

Usage

Reports allow you to visualize your genealogy from different angles, make analyses, or even extract data from it.

Did you know that??  Ancestris has contributed to thehealth advancementscience. of science: inIn 2009 and 2010 the Ancestris team collaborated with Nadine Pellen, a cystic fibrosis researcher. Thanks to algorithms developed for the occasion,occasion in Ancestris, she was able to succeed in her research by manipulating 250 family trees and 258,000 individuals. On March 18, 2013, she published "Cystic fibrosis as an inheritance".

For her thesis, Nadine Pellen used a report that we produced quickly and specifically for her to codify the ancestry of patients carrying the cystic fibrosis gene and to produce a file from which she was then able to carry out all the analyses.

Launching a report

A report can be started in several ways.

• From this tool:window: ListLists and reportreports from the menuMenu / Tools.
• From the context menu "LaunchRun a report"report".

A report can concerndeal with all the individuals in a genealogy (list of acts to be researched, age pyramid, etc.) or focus on a particular individual (ancestry report).

When you launch thea report from the List and reportreports menu,window, you can sometimes choose the scopeindividuals concernedon bywhich you want to run the report inif it is available in  the options.

When you launch the report from the contextualContext menu,Menu, the menus expand to offer you to launch the report for the whole genealogy or only for the entity you clicked on.

The following expanding sub-menus are the same reports that you find in List and Reports, arranged by category.

Since documentation on the usedocumentation of each report is included in eachits report,description, we do not document itthem here.again in this page.

Only complex reports that require further explanation will be detailed in this online documentation.

This is the case of the Person/Family Information SheetSheets report,of alsoIndividuals/Families called the "Gedart report"report. It is detaileddescribed in a dedicated page.