Terry's Second Site Tips

An Overview of Second Site
For Second Site 4

This page updated 19 Apr 2013

Version note: Applies to Second Site 4

Some sections of my An Overview of Second Site article describe functions which have changed in Second Site 5. This article contains the information I formerly published for Second Site 4 where it is significantly different than for the newer version. Consult the current article or topics not covered here.

Pop-up Pedigree

In the Person Pages section of my current Overview article I describe the Family Explorer, which displays parents, grandparents, children, and siblings of the subject. That feature replaces the Pop-up Pedigree which was available in versions of Second Site prior to version 5. In older versions, the Pop-up Pedigree, if enabled, was activated with a button below the name and sex/lifespan line in the Person Page, as shown below:

Clicking the Pop-up Pedigree button opens a pop-up screen with a three-generation pedigree for the person:

The names of each ancestor in the pedigree are links, which if clicked take the reader to that person's entry in the Person Pages.

Selecting Format to Control How the Data for Each Person is Displayed

The function of Formats, as described in my current Overview article, is not substantially changed in version 5, but the controls for it have been. In version 4 and prior the Format is selected in the Pages > Format section:

In this screenshot the default "Narration" Format has been selected. While a Format provides a overall framework for displaying the data on the Person Pages, there are a number of options to fine-tune how the data is displayed (not all options apply to all Formats). These options include the following:

• Use TMG's Sentences, or display the raw data
• Add a sentence naming the parents
• Show the person's gender and/or TMG ID number
• Control where, or if, a long list of data items are displayed

In version 5, the Pages > Format section has been removed and the drop-down to select the Format, and most of the controls associated with it, are moved to the new Pages > Person Entry section. The others are relocated as follows:

• Show Surname Counts moved to the Data > Names section
• HTML Format moved to the Pages > Site section
• Detail Format, Add Parent Sentence, Show Principal Role Name, and Show Witness Role Name all moved to the new Pages >Body Tags section

If you open an SDF file created in an earlier version in version 5, all the setting you have made will be transferred to the appropriate new locations.

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