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Just wondering if some clever person has an effective way of spell checking their TNG site? My site is hidden and a Reunion (Mac software) GEDCOM import, but Reunion uses a Mac’s inbuilt spelling, which I have not been able to fan of for a long time. I was viewing my site today and noticed some careless typos I had added in, in notes and also just things like photo captions. At the moment, I’ve taken to exporting a GEDCOM file and am using a word processing app (Pages on a Mac) to spell check…but is there some easier way? For example, is there a good GEDCOM file viewer that has a great spell checker included? Any tips appreciated. I’ve already checked the Reunion site and didn’t get any useful solution there. PS…I’m looking for a global spell checking solution…not a ‘check as you type’ solution

After some discussion on the Sources and their significance I decided to develop a Mod that makes the changes considered there. If you have any comments regarding this Mod, feel free to share them in this thread.

Hello! New TNG user here. I've put the media on my computer in folders matching the collections in TNG. I've linked all media in FTM, making sure that the path goes to those folders. I've created the collections in TNG and under "edit" (collection) I've set the local path to match that in the gedcom I've also set the local path under setup > import settings. The media itself is sitting in folders on my server that match the collection titles. However, all media links are somehow coming in as photos. Any advice? Thanks in advance! Edit: I'm being a luddite and put this in the wrong area but can't change it - this is on a server, not a home computer install.

It's been a while since I attempted to import a GEDCOM file into my site. I uploaded the file via FTP and went into TNG and went to select it. On both Safari and Firefox (on my Mac) clicking the select button just caused a new blank tab to appear in my browser? I can't figure out why. There was an easy workaround...I deleted the uploaded file and used the file select button, to upload from my Mac and import all in one go, but I'm trying to figure out why I can't select the GED file when it's been FTP'd. This is with TNG 15.0.3

TNG 15.0.2 Hello, folks, Would it be possible to somehow create a TNG report that lists all places in my TNG database, but have it displayed in reverse order? Rather than try to explain it, here is an example (generated by Legacy) of what I'm talking about: And although not a necessity, it would be nice if each of the above lines included a hyperlink to each. Would that be doable? Or would anyone already have such a report? Thanks in advance. Regards, John

As promised earlier I can hereby announce the release of my very first mod Safe External Links - TNG_Wiki This TNG modification causes all TNG page external links to open in a new Window or Tab with the noopener attribute. The noopener attribute increases security by preventing third-party control of the browser tab. Hope you enjoy it.

Hello, Just a heads up on an TNG15 issue I encountered regarding admin branch creation and branch labels. I have alerted Darrin to the issue and the situation under which it occurs. If you have branch ID's with at least two matching consecutive characters, processing of labels will or might affect both branches instead of the one. In my case, I had two ID's, one was 'ekm' and another 'km'. Once i avoided the matching characters, the processing worked normally. Darrin had said someone else had reported an issue with label creation as well, but this was before I tested and found out what I had to do to avoid the problem. Darrin's response: Ah, thanks Ron. Yes, that's a semi-intentional feature that allows you to grant a user access to more than one branch. In this case it unintentionally bit you though. Sorry about that, but I'm glad you figured it out. Darrin also stated this is not documented anywhere. Ron

I'm currently rewriting all my citations in order to make them APA-7 compliant. APA-7 states that there shouldn't be a period behind the hyperlink but TNG adds this period to a citation by default. Anyone an idea how to remove the period at the end of the hyperlink? I will also address this to Darrin for a possible update in the next TNG version

Can anyone confirm this issue I ran into. My site is multilingual (English & Dutch). When looking at the the person page, while the language is set to Dutch, all dates are translated correct, but when I look at the admin_editperson.php or admin_editfamily.php the dates are still presented in English. Not sure if this applies to other languages too.

In the past I have put basic html codes into TNG notes. such as <b> and <i> etc. These are now not working and are being displayed as is. Can anyone inform me about why this is and whether there is any fix to it?

I have released a new mod called What's New after Import. It is intended for admins who frequently import data from PC or Apple computers into TNG via GEDCOM files. This often results in the last modified” time in the TNG database for media, people, and families being equal to the import time, which makes this description less useful. In particular, in the “What's New” tab, the set of new items presented does not correspond to the purpose of this tab. This mod allows you to take into account the last edit time stored in the metadata of media files, rather than in their description in the database. In addition, individuals and families whose description indicates a change time close to the import time are filtered out. The use of this metadata or the description in the database can be switched on an ongoing basis by selecting the appropriate option. The menu also allows you to select the time (age) of the oldest changes to be taken into account and to limit the number of items displayed. The mod has several parameters. They allow you to redefine the list of values used in the age and number menus, the initial values of age and number, and the initial value of the change time source (metadata or database). During data processing, which for a large database may require up to several dozen seconds of server time, a header and spinner are immediately displayed so that a blank screen does not confuse the user. This is a small detail that requires forcing an incomplete page to be sent to the browser - which was a new experience for me. Feel free to try out the mod and post your comments and suggestions for improvement here. If anyone is interested in further details before trying out the mod, I will be happy to provide them. Michał Jarociński Edit: you can see the mod in action in my site: jarocinscy.pl/genealogy/whatsnew.php (the page is public).

Hi, It is good not to display the notes about the person at the end of the person page, but above the card. It would be even better if they were displayed directly after the person card, before the family card. Is there any chance that this suggestion will be implemented? Best regards, Uwe

Hi all, I have a number of different, unconnected trees on my site and would like to be able to allow anyone to be able to switch between them. I like the idea of "Each Tree Its Template" which works ok for people who are logged in, but I've often wondered why there is no menu item to swap between trees. Or have I missed something? I welcome any comments.

I recently upgraded from TNG v14 to v15.0.3 on my local site using MAMP. All appears well except three of the v15 mods I use will not install. They are "Add Person Siblings Row", "Ancestor Map", and "Collapse Family Children". All three show that mod updates are required (see attachment). Is anyone else out there having similar problems with v15.0.3? Thanks for any help you can provide. Peter Weeks

Hi I'm still alive, and hopefully you are too! I'm using Relate-mod and I can see that there is still a small linguistic issue: If I select my grandfather, for example, I get the following in Danish: ‘Rudolph Reinholdt Felix STEGEMÜLLER er den bedstefar til STEGEMÜLLER.’ In that sentence, the word ‘den’ is incorrect/superfluous. Instead, it should say: ‘Rudolph Reinholdt Felix STEGEMÜLLER er bedstefar til STEGEMÜLLER.’. My genealogy website is here: https://tng.stegemueller.dk/ PS Remember that I am always happy to help with translations of mods into Danish. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

@mkoche - tagging you since it's your mod and I tried tagging tngrlkrz since it looks like he helped but my tag isn't working for some reason. This mod was working well for me until tonight. I've added a 2nd tree, if that has any bearing on things. Normally when it runs, I get the donut and a short list of ancestors, and the matriarch and patriarch. I think that's what it's supposed to do. Now when I run it, no matter who I do it on, it gives me over 300 names. That's when it doesn't time out first. I always get the matriarch and patriarch, they're at the bottom. But it doesn't seem to be running on the person I've selected as some of the results are not ancestors of this person. I tried removing the donut. That worked but I still got the same long 300+ person list. Then I turned the donut back on and tried changing this option: Origins Chart 3. Remove details on the donut origin chart" - A 1 will remove details from the chart legend - chartplace names links to connected ancestors and the drop-down arrow that shows secondary places. Defaults to (0) I changed it to 1 and it changed it to a 10 (I don't think I put in 10...but maybe I did - would it accept it if I did?). Then my whole subdomain stopped working and every page was blank. I don't know if that's related but that's when it happened. I had to do a restore from a backup on my server (thankfully they did the last one only an hour before). Any ideas on what the problem might be? Jodi

After installing a Full v15 on a new PC (test site), I installed all MODs without issue. However, when I upgraded the live site from v14-v15, only the user footer copyright MOD generated an error: "Cannot install for TNG 15.0.0" The MOD Manager status column is copied below. I must have botched a step in the upgrade process. Is there a ready fix? Thank you. Regis www.CarrFamilyTree.com v15.0.1

TNG 15.0.2 PHP 8.4.8 MariaDB 11.4.7 watermark_v15.0.0.6.cfg Hello folks, I have a slight hiccup with Michel's @Michel KIRSCH Watermark mod v15.0.0.6, and I have no idea what is causing this problem. On my main page, I have a random photo section, with the image changing randomly every time the main page is accessed. The error that pops up sometimes (i.e. only every now & then), is: Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 20.5 to int loses precision in D:\Web\~TNG\~Sites\TNG-TestSite-NitroWings-v15.0.2\watermark.php on line 331 What's weird is, when that error appears for a picture, the next time that same picture is randomly displayed, there is no error associated with that picture. That mod is working perfectly on my 2 external TNG 15.0.2 sites (public live site & public test site), which are both currently using PHP 8.3.21 and MySQL 8.0.39-cll-lve under LiteSpeed (Apache) v2.4.63. That mod is also working perfectly on my local TNG 14.0.6 site, which is using PHP 8.4.8 and MariaDB 11.4.7 under Windows 10 Pro x64. The hiccup is only on my local TNG 15.0.2 test site, which is also using PHP 8.4.8 and MariaDB 11.4.7 under Windows 10 Pro x64. Thinking that it may be related to my PHP, I rolled my local TNG 15.0.2 test site back to PHP 8.2.5, but the problem was still there, so I don't believe that it's PHP-related. Plus, my local TNG 14.0.6 test site does not display this error at all, so it can't be PHP-related. It can't be related to MariaDB either, because it's the same DB that my local TNG 14.0.6 site uses, which does NOT produce that error message. And it can't be related to TNG, because my 2 external TNG 15.0.2 sites work fine & also do NOT produce that error message. And it also can't be related Windows versus LiteSpeed/Apache, because my local TNG 14.0.6 site also works fine & also does NOT produce that error message. Now, just before posting this, I got 2 more errors: Warning: imagecreatefromstring(): gd-png: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile in D:\Web\~TNG\~Sites\TNG-TestSite-NitroWings-v15.0.2\watermark.php on line 260 Warning: imagecreatefromstring(): gd-png: libpng warning: iCCP: cHRM chunk does not match sRGB in D:\Web\~TNG\~Sites\TNG-TestSite-NitroWings-v15.0.2\watermark.php on line 260 Those 2 iCCP warnings popped up when TNG displayed a specific picture, which 99% of the time displays fine, but that same picture every now & then produces the Implicit conversion from float 20.5 to int loses precision warning, and now this one time the above 2 iCCP warnings. So those warnings are not consistent. Jan Wessel found the cause of this problem & posted about it & the fix HERE 7 years ago, so I can fix the latter 2 iCCP warnings, but those warnings are appearing sporadically. I'm going crazy (it doesn't take much ), and I'm running out of ideas as to what is causing these problem, and I am hoping that someone else can think of a possible cause. Thanks in advance. Regards, John

This is the third release of the templates NearDark2, NearDawn2, DayLight, and NightLight for TNG 14 and later. There is a single new feature: The list/menu in the Navigation pane now has a title that can be set and internationalized in template parameters. In addition, spacing issues between footer sections have been fixed, and font legibility has been improved in the administration pages. (Click any of the images for full-size previews): If you want to see these templates in action, one of the four is live on Lindell-Herndon Genealogy. Bill Herndon

Hello, I am getting the attached error when I try to install this mod. I am using TNG 15.0.2. There are just these two errors. Thanks for any help— Derrick

I have two questions about these. First, when I import a transcript from Ancestry, the numbers of people do not populate the different categories. That's fine, and I add them myself. I just wanted to make sure that's the expected behavior. Second, these are two-page censuses. Do I add a second page, with the numbers of slaves, the same way that a second page would be added in later censuses if the family flowed over to a second page? And so, if I wanted to do that, should I use the manual import for the first page to be able to add the second page? I am using censusplus_15.0.2.14 b1, with TNG 15.0.2. Thanks - Derrick

Today, I have uploaded Unused_media_v15.0.2.2 to the TNG Wiki. The changes are to update the style to match TNG v15 (new icons, larger form fields), and the ability to select an item for addition to TNG. I have tested it on my site, but feedback from other users would be useful. Thanks for any comments. Regards, Warren

TNG 15.0.2 Hello, folks, I noticed a few weeks ago what looks like a corrupted but also unknown menu item in my Find pull-down menu, between the Place Map and Dates: The item associated with it (if/when it is clicked on) tries to open reports_be.php, which I do not have on my site. I have no idea how it got on my menu, but most likely due to a mod that I had tried in the past. If it was indeed leftover from a mod, does anyone have an idea which mod it might have been? Or is there a way that I can possibly remove that menu item using phpMyAdmin? I have no idea where those menu items are stored. Thanks in advance & have a great day. Regards, John

TNG 15.0.2 Hello, folks, let me clarify... On my previous TNG site (14.0.6), I have many pictures that have many hundreds of people linked to those pictures, spread across 8-10 categories. I do have a copy (backup) of my previous TNG 14.0.6 site, which I ran a 14.0.6-to-15.0.2 upgrade on, so I do have a database from a previous site will all my categories & photos in it, and which the database is compatible withTNG 15.0.2. I installed my TNG 15.0.2 site from scratch, and have been slowly setting up my media on the new site from scratch. It's a slow process, and I've managed to create a few categories manually so far. For you MySQL gurus, is there a way that I can somehow, from that previoussite's tng_media table, export or extract all media items with a specific mediatypeID to a file, and then import all those items into a category on my live TNG 15.0.2 site? As an example, I have a media category on my previous site with a mediatypeID called maps. I wish to import everything in that category into a new (empty) category on my current site with a mediaID that I will call photosmaps when I create it. What I wish to accomplish is to have all the maps from my previous site with all their associated (Linked to) people, imported into my new site, with all the maps & their associated (Linked to) people. And if the above is indeed possible, is it better for me to already have the new category reated on my current site to import the maps (photos) into? Or is it better to not have the maps category created yet, and have the import create it during the import process? Apologies for not explaining that very well, but I hope it makes a little sense. Thank you in advance & have a great day. Regards, John

TNG 15.0.2 browsemedia_medialinks_v15.0.0.0.cfg Hello, folks, This reworked browsemedia_medialinks_v15.0.0.0.cfg (thanks, Brett) installs fine on TNG 15.0.2, and shows that it is successfully installed, but it does not do what it is supposed to do on my TNG 15.0.2 site. On my old TNG 14.0.6 site, this is what this mod does on its browsemedia.php page, which is what it is supposed to do: However, on my TNG 15.0.2 site, this is what this mod does on its browsemedia.php page, which doesn't seem to be doing anything: Just wondering if anyone else on TNG 15.0.2 who uses this mod is having the same problem. Thanks in advance & have a great day. Regards, John