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MENUS

The page headers have drop-down menus associated with each menu icon.

When you move your mouse pointer over an icon a sub-menu will appear, if one exists. When you click on an icon you will be taken to the first item in the sub-menu.

The following menu icons are usually available:
^ WELCOME PAGE MENU
All of this site's available genealogical databases are listed in this menu. Each database has its own customized Welcome page, like this one. If there is only one database at this site, there is no sub-menu under the Welcome Page icon.


^ MYGEDVIEW PORTAL MENU
If you are logged in, this menu can include the following items:
  1. MyGedView Portal
    This takes you to your own customizable Starting page.
  2. My Account
    You can edit your personal data here.
  3. My Pedigree
    If you have selected a Root person for this GEDCOM, this will take you to the Pedigree chart for that person.
  4. My Individual Record
    This link will take you to your Individual Information page, where all genealogical data about yourself and your family is displayed.

^ CHARTS MENU
The available charts are:
  1. Pedigree Tree
    This will link you to the Pedigree chart of this GEDCOM file. The pedigree will start with the person configured by the administrator. When you are logged in the starting person can be whoever you have configured in your Account preferences.
  2. Descendancy Chart
    The Descendancy chart is essentially a Pedigree Tree in reverse order. This comparison is not quite correct, but while the Pedigree chart shows you all the ancestors of a starting person, the Descendancy chart shows you all the descendants of a starting person.
  3. Timeline Chart
    Here you view the events of a person along a time line. It's interesting to compare the events of two or more persons along the same time line.
  4. Relationship Chart
    Here you can check the relation of a person to yourself or to another person.
  5. Ancestry Chart
    This chart is very similar to the Pedigree Tree, but with more details and alternate Chart style displays.
  6. Circle Diagram
    This chart is very similar to the Pedigree Tree, but in a more graphical way.

^ LISTS MENU
The following lists are available:
  1. Individuals
  2. Families
    In these two lists you can browse alphabetical lists of individuals or families in this GEDCOM.
  3. Sources
    This item returns a list of all the sources used in the GEDCOM.
  4. Place Hierarchy
    Here you can look for people by Place. A two-column list will be returned. Individuals are listed on the left, families on the right.
  5. MultiMedia
    You see this menu item only if enabled by the site admin. This will display links to all multimedia files in this GEDCOM.

^ ANNIVERSARY CALENDAR MENU
The Anniversary Calendar displays the events in a GEDCOM for a given date, month, or year.
  1. View Day
  2. View Month
  3. View Year
    These menu items will take you to the Anniversary Calendar to display a list of all the events for the current day, month, or year.

^ FAMILY TREE CLIPPINGS CART MENU
You will see this item in the menu bar only when the administrator has enabled this feature.

The Clippings Cart allows you to store information about individuals, families, and sources in a temporary file that you can later download in GEDCOM 5.5.1 format.

^ SEARCH MENU
The Search page is a more powerful version of the Search box you may find in each page header.

^ HELP MENU
Of course, it would be ideal to create a program so simple and easy to use that it doesn't need any explanation at all; it should be as simple as reading a book.

Although PhpGedView is very complicated, you should not notice that as you use it; almost everything can be used without explanation. But, since we may have a lot of visitors and users who are not very experienced with the use of a computer or with the Internet, we offer you some help at certain places.

You will find the following items in the Help menu:
Help with this Page
For all pages there is a general "Page Help" available. You can click this item in the menu to get "Page Help", where you will be informed about the items on that very page.

Page Help is often brief. If you need more help or information about a certain item on the page than Page Help provides you can use the "Contextual Help" feature.
Help Contents
When you click this menu item, you will get a Help page that displays an index of the major Help topics. The amount of Help information available will be increased as time permits.
FAQ List
The FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page can contain an overview or a list of questions and answers on the use of this genealogy site.

The use to which the FAQ page is put is entirely up to the site administrator. The site administrator controls the content of each item and also the order in which the items are shown on the page.
Search Help Text
You can search PhpGedView's Help system. The Search Help Text feature gives you a high degree of control over the way the search functions; you should be able to find what you are looking for easily.
Hide / Show Contextual Help
This last menu item could be the most useful for you. Clicking this link will either switch on or off the "Contextual Help".

With Contextual Help switched on, you may find a Question Mark or similar icon beside some links, drop-down boxes, or buttons. When you click this icon, a Help screen will pop up. This Help screen contains information about that object.

Of course, when you click "Hide Contextual Help", all the Question Marks or icons will disappear until you click "Show...." again.




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