Potential new features

Feature request: Descendant Graph: Show the total number of descendants found. Perhaps similar to the totals shown on the History Link application?

A related thought: Sub-Totals under each legend item?

This could apply to Ancestor Graph, but the curiosity about the count came from "# of descendants of X?"

… since Geni stops counting at 5000, this could be a useful addition.

Ok, will look at it and see what can be added.

Dan Cornett, I added a count below the graph. Will look into the sub-totals next.

Ancestor/Descendant Graphs: I think it would be very helpful if there were a distinction between 'Private-Deceased' and 'Private-Living' colors. (The only 'Public-Living' would MP's, so that's not an issue.

This is a great idea!

Where would one locate, said- Descendant Graph? Could you provide me with a link, please?
xoxoxoRenée

aahhh Ancestor Graph! I believe, I´ve answered, my own question. :-)

Thanx, for improving the features! <3

(repeating from another discussion) ... allow one to reverse the 'logic'/direction on the original HistoryLink, adding options to show Geni-member profiles (of descendants) - e.g. 'claimed', Deceased-Private, Living, ... as on AncestorGraph.

Then you don't have to worry about graphing limitation; just list those "identified" by the selected options (e.g. projects, profile status, conflicts, problem profiles, ... along with counts).

I really like this graph, it is a good way for getting other people to help you in finding missing ancestors,
Would it be possible to make a saved graph be click-able?
Would it be possible to add and option to save colour information for a graph? If so, it may also be nice to have an option able to save the chosen options for generating and/or creation date and time to the graph.

Dan Cornett, good thought on the search. That one might take a bit of work.

Job Waterreus, I wish it was easy to make the PDF - it's not. haha And it still doesn't work the way I'd like it when the graph gets large - sometimes failing to open. Trying to write a SVG graphic into a PDF on the fly was tough, adding in Javascript for PDF interaction would be very difficult and probably beyond my skill.

As for the last two.. I'll take a look at it - should be real easy to add a date & time.

Jeff,

I do have some problems with creating a pfd that can be opened in Firefox, but it does work in Chrome. Creating a png in Firefox does not work for me (noting is created), but that also works without a problem in Chrome. I have a lot of extensions in Firefox and almost none in Chrome, so the extensions may be the problem.

Would a html page with a click-able png be a possibility?

I've just added a new feature to the HistorySearch that will allow you to Follow all the profiles you searched. I created this to make sure I was following every direct ancestor for X generations to make sure I get notifications on discussions in case I'm not a manager. Be very careful not to over-follow. I chose 12 generations and excluded siblings, which resulted in me following over 6000 profiles. Due to the exponential nature, leaving the defaults of 20 generations in the search and not excluding siblings could result in over 2 million profiles being followed. So again, use caution... but I hope it's useful to you. :)

That's a fantastic feature, Jeff. I'm very keen on paying attention to the profiles I follow, so this will be very useful to me. Now it would be great to have an option to unfollow ;)

... re: unfollow ... but that might require a provision to exclude more recent generations.

On the other hand, one could just 'unfollow' the 50 direct ancestors, then re-do the search for just (say) 8 generations with the 'follow' enabled.

Remember that profiles you co-managed don't necessarily need the 'follow' to get info about them.

Besides adding an 'UnFollow' option (very important, I think!), would it be feasible to add statistics about that to the Summary at the bottom? You already have the total profiles; I'd like to see something like "Profiles Followed (XXX), New Follows (YY)" ... where YY would always be less than XXX.
I'm assuming (I think correctly) that the profile info from the API returns the 'Followed' status; so it could be a matter of counting those before setting that status -- and showing the difference between that & the total.

Dan Cornett, just so you're aware, I pushed out a small update at the same time you first tested this, which probably killed your session. Sorry

The small update reversed the way the siblings option was presented. So instead of an Exlcude (default off), I changed it to a Include (default on).

re: Follow status ... even if one does not 'check' (enable) the "Add Follow", it would be nice to know how many are being explicitly 'Followed'.

... re: statistics ... and now I also want the statistic for the number that I am a co-manager of, too! <grin>.

I don't see an option in the API to know if you're following a profile or not. I do see one for managers. Wonder how much overhead that would produce to query the managers for each profile.

http://www.geni.com/platform/developer/help/api?path=profile&amp;ve...

Oh wait.. they have this. Hmmm
http://www.geni.com/platform/developer/help/api?path=user%2Ffollowe...

The 'Follow' / 'Un-Follow' could be handled like you did the Master / Non-Master Public profiles option.

re: follow stats: Ah, ... (re: API) ... not so straight-forward, as I was assuming.

re: Follow ... I see that it is an aspect of the user, not the profile (which makes sense). Just getting the TOTAL count for the user before the operation, and then again afterward, might be a fast (even if not exact) method of getting that "added XX follows" statistic.

... not exact, in that the user might have changed the follow status of other profiles while History Search is running. But still a nice stat to show:

You are now following YYY profiles; XX were added during this search.

XX could be negative, with the Unfollow feature added. (or change the text to reflected 'added'/'removed').

I've added the Unfollow feature.

Thanks for the feedback - I'll take a look at those a little later. Need to do some yard work. haha

re: yard work ... me too!

More on the Follow stats: Remember that is on the current user, not the 'focus profile'. (I might have forgotten that, myself!)

Perhaps it would also be helpful to display the current 'Total Followed" count when updating the interim results (when you update the display of 'current generation being investigated'. That way, one could watch if it is getting bigger than expected and stop the search before it goes too far!

Just tested: The main Profile View statistic does not update with a page refresh. (This is a Geni bug i have reported here: http://help.geni.com/entries/48837720-Followed-count-does-not-updat... ... go add your vote to it!)

If you click on that number to get the actual list of followed profiles (1st page), the number *is* correct there ... and *that* (followed list page) total *does* update properly. (I used 5 generations to test that, unfollowing, then following, and the numbers do change properly on the "list" page, but not on my Profile View page.)

Another reason to show the 'Total Followed" on History Search (<grin>).

Yay for Follow / Unfollow. That makes me very, very happy. Thanks, Jeff.

Thanks very much Jeff :)

Sorry if this has already been suggested- it would be useful if projects featured on History Link had a symbol/link on the project page.