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- en:tree_options [2018/03/12 17:08] elena [Персоны дерева]
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 ===== Tree options =====
 On the main ''Tree'' tab there is ''Tree options'' button. 
 All tree options are organized in groups on the following tabs:  ''Content'', ''Apearance'' and ''Persons'' in the tree options window. 
 
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 On the ''Contents'' tab you can choose the type of relatives that you want in the tree.\\
 {{popup> en::tree_options1.png |%Family tree  contents options}}\\
 For example, ''Only direct relatives'' allows only your direct ancestors and direct descendants of the tree rootThe root of the tree can be changed: select another person in the Persons table or in the tree and build a new tree. 
  
 When building a tree only on the male line, no descendants of the women are displayed in the tree. Similarly, when building a tree only on the female line, no descendants of men are displayed in the tree. 
  
 If the ''Spouses'' option is ticked, in the direct relatives tree you will also see the spouses of your children and other spouses of your ancestors (although they are not your direct relatives). Same about the blood relatives tree: if the ''Spouses'' is ticked, you will see all wives and husbands of your blood relatives although those are not your blood relatives.\\
 If you do not want to see any ex-spouses, tick the option ''Do not show ex-spouses''.\\
 
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 If you want to build a family tree on a separate tab, tick ''Each tree on separate tab''. It can be helpful when you want to compare the two different tree views (with different options, for example, or different backgrounds).
 
 ''Auto rebuild'' means  that the changes are shown immediately if they are made in the tree. 
  
 ===== Family tree appearance =====
 ''Appearance'' tab contains options to design your family tree lookchart appearance. The combination of family tree look chart appearance settings and of tree nodes contents is called //a tree style//. To save your tree style or to download a tree style (standart, compact, supercompact or your own saved one) click the ''Load style'' or ''Save style'' buttons over the example tree which shows the current style design.
  
 In the left upper corner there is a drop-down list where you can choose the direction of branches in the family tree. Descendants can be at the top, at the bottom (vertical family tree), on the left or on the right (horizontal family chart):\\
 {{popup> ruen::tree_options2.png |%Family tree design options}}
 
 When the option ''Optimize spouses position'' is ticked, the spouses are located one above the other if it is possible.
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 The lines in the tree can be ''one-color'' or ''multi-colored'',  in the latter case the program automatically sets the colors of the lines so that the neighboring parallel lines are of different colors, this improves the readability of the tree.
 
 A tree can have ''No background'', ''Two-color background'' (two background colors, for even and odd generations) or ''Background image''For  
 Follow the instructions on the screenshot to set an image as background for family tree 
  
 {{popup> en:background_en.jpg |%Family tree with background image,  ''Save proportions'' option allows you to stretch the background image to the whole tree (option is off) or to keep the proportions of the background image (option is on).}}
 
 You can set ''Title font'' of the tree and ''Captions font'' (the captions under the tree, statistics).
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 The root of the tree (i.g. the person whose tree is built) is coloured differently when ''Highlight root node'' option is turned on.
 
 ===== Persons in the family tree chart ===== 
 This tab provides configuration of the contents and the genealogical family tree of chart nodes. In the upper left corner there is a drop-down list that allows you to determine which type of nodes the settings apply to: all tree people, blood relatives of the tree root, to direct relatives of the tree root, to the parents and children of the root or to the root itself:\\
 {{popup> en::tree_options3.png |%Family tree nodes configuration}}
 
 On the ''Data fields'' tab, you can change the list of data fields displayed in the tree chart node. For each field, you can set a word wrap, a bold or italic font, a prefix and a field suffix (for example, parentheses for  life dates), and for which persons this field will be displayed: men or women, living or dead:\\
 {{en:tree_options4.png?nolink}}\\
 
 "ID" field shows the person's id number given by the program.
 For the fields ''Relation degree'', ''Marriages'' and ''Comment'' there is an option ''Abbreviate'', it allows to display a short value in this field.
 

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