REPORTS
The items in the reports menu will generate PDF files for printing.

The first step is to choose a report to run. After you have selected a report to run, you will be asked to provide some information specific to that report, such as which individual or family to start with and whether or not to show photos. When you are ready to run the report, click the Download report button to download the report to your computer.


REPORTING ENGINE
The PhpGedView Reporting Engine uses XML template files to automatically generate PDF reports.

The reports available in the Select report list are generated from the report XML files found in the "reports" directory. You can create your own reports by making a copy of any of the templates provided and modifying the template XML. To add your custom report, just put it in the "reports" directory and PhpGedView will automatically detect it and make it available in the Select report drop-down list.


PDF FILE FORMAT
The PhpGedView Reporting Engine produces downloadable reports in Adobe® PDF format. The GEDCOM 5.5.1 Standard specification, mentioned elsewhere in this Help file, is also downloadable as a PDF file. PDF is an acronym for Portable Document Format.

PDF files are not viewable or printable by the standard software on your PC. If you already have Acrobat Reader installed (it's often packaged with other softwares), you do not need to replace or upgrade it to deal with report files produced by PhpGedView.

Acrobat Reader, the viewing and printing program for these files, is available free of charge from Adobe Systems Inc. The free Adobe® Acrobat Reader can be downloaded from the Adobe Systems Inc. web site. You may find copies of "Acrobat Reader" available for download from other Internet sites, but we strongly advise you to trust only the Adobe Systems Inc. site.

Acrobat Reader is available for many different systems, including Microsoft® Windows and Apple® Macintosh, in many languages other than English. If you have a Windows 95 system, be sure to download Acrobat Reader version 5.0.5. Versions more recent than this will not install correctly on Windows 95 systems.

Download Adobe Reader here


AHNENTAFEL REPORT
This is a report of the selected person and his ancestors, printed in booklet format. It starts with the first person and then continues with his or her parents, grand-parents, etc.

Note that the ahnentafel report is only available in English at this time.


BIRTH DATE AND PLACE REPORT
With this report you can list all of the people who were born at a certain time or place.


RELATIVES REPORT
This report will list all of the relatives of the selected individual. You can choose which of the person's relatives to show on the report.

• Parents and siblings will show the selected person, his parents, and his brothers and sisters.
• Spouse and children will list the person with his or her spouses and their children.
• Direct line ancestors will list the person, his parents, grand-parents, great-grand-parents, and continue up the tree listing all of the people who are parents in the person's lineage.
• Direct line ancestors and their families will list all of the people from the Direct line ancestors list but also include aunts and uncles and great-aunts and great-uncles, so it will include the siblings of all of the ancestors in this person's family tree. It will not list the children of the siblings (cousins).
• Descendants will list all of this person's descendants (children, grand-children, great-grand children, etc).
• ALL this option is a combination of the Descendants and the Direct line ancestors and their families in a single report.