The family tree views show the lineage around an item: parents and earlier generations, the item itself, and its offspring. The same views exist for your own items in Private and for published items in Public.
Before you start #
- Open an item: Private > the project > the item's tile, or open a public item in Public.
- The family tree of public items needs a connection.
The three layouts #
Family tree offers three layouts around the item:
- Tree: parents above, children below. Works on every plan.
- Flat: a flat layout of the same lineage. Needs a paid plan.
- Constellation: items as stars in 3D. Needs a paid plan.
On Free, Flat and Constellation show a read-only sample tree of about 500 stars instead, with the banner "Demo of a Premium view: sample data, not your tree." Press Back to my tree to return to your own.
Tree #
- Press Show more generations above or Show more generations below to load more of the lineage. A large tree shows the nearest relatives first.
- Make this the centre moves the centre to another item.
- From an item's menu in the item list you can also choose Show in family tree view or Highlight in family tree view.
Constellation #
- Two shapes: Rings (generations stacked as rings) or Ball (for big trees).
- Drag to turn, use two fingers or the mouse wheel to zoom. Pause motion stops the turning.
- From an item's menu: Show in constellation.
Tools in every view #
- Trace ancestry highlights the line from the earliest ancestor down to this item.
- Filter: show or dim items by relation, trait, status, dates or name. Choose Include or Exclude; Dim keeps the filtered items faint, Hide removes them. Filters last for this session only.
- Legend & style changes colours and line styles.
- Torch: in large public trees the torch lights the nodes nearest the centre and dims the rest. See Torch view.
Hidden relatives #
A relative you may not see (someone else's private item) is shown as a "?" box, so the shape of the tree stays honest without showing private data. A retracted item is shown as withdrawn. More in Torch view.
Good to know #
- Lineage links already work across projects, but showing items from several projects together in one view is not available yet.
- The demo project (Add demo project (500 stars) in Private, Personal workspace) is a read-only sample project for trying the views. It needs a connection.