Family Gem: Complete family tree in one diagram

[Uwe Krätzig]

Hi Michele,

> If you have realistic ideas on how to display everyone on a single diagram please contact the app developer.
Take a look at graph editor yEd: https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
It is a free Java based programm which in my experience works great. You can open *.ged files, and choosing layout "family tree" you get a good diagram. There are many layout options, for example orientation (left to right, up to down). Perhaps this gives you some ideas how to display complete family tree in a single diagram.

For me, showing only part of family tree on small smartphone display is ok, but for pdf export it would be nice to have a complete tree.

By the way, PDF export doesn't work reliably on my smartphone. Most of the time I get an empty PDF. Perhaps it has something to do with diagram options.

I like your app very much! Thank you!

Best regards,
Uwe

[Michele Salvador]

Hi Uwe,

Take a look at graph editor yEd: https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
It is a free Java based programm which in my experience works great. You can open *.ged files, and choosing layout "family tree" you get a good diagram. There are many layout options, for example orientation (left to right, up to down). Perhaps this gives you some ideas how to display complete family tree in a single diagram.

I installed the Windows version and effectively it opens .ged files displaying all the people.
The resulting diagram is quite unusable, with near relatives that are placed far away from each other and a lot of overlapping lines..
But no way: they are all there!
Thank you for the suggestion, it's inspiring for me.

For me, showing only part of family tree on small smartphone display is ok, but for pdf export it would be nice to have a complete tree.

Yes, I agree.

By the way, PDF export doesn't work reliably on my smartphone. Most of the time I get an empty PDF. Perhaps it has something to do with diagram options.

Sorry to hear that.
Unfortunately I can't reproduce this bug. For me PDF is always exported correctly.
Did you noticed some other details on how this happen?

[Uwe Krätzig]

Hi Michele,

on my phone Family Gem has lost all connections between persons and photos. When I look at a person there is only a placeholder instead of the photo.
I think this issue is caused by the new Familiy Gem version 1.2. From the description: "New functions: Media management is strongly improved." Sadly, for me it has become worse.
Please take a look at this problem. Thank you!

Best regards,
Uwe

Am 03.12.2023 um 08:07 schrieb Uwe Krätzig:
> Hi Michele,
>
> PDF export fails mostly, no matter If the family tree is small or large. If export of a tree fails, export of every other tree fails also. I have to stop and restart the app to get a non-empty PDF of a tree which I know can be exported properly.
>
> Best regards,
> Uwe
>
> Vom Handy gesendet
>
> 02.12.2023 14:57:55 Michele Salvador <chico...@gmail.com>:

[Michele Salvador]

on my phone Family Gem has lost all connections between persons and photos. When I look at a person there is only a placeholder instead of the photo.

Most probably the media files of your tree are stored in some random folder in the shared storage (e.g. /Pictures, or /DCIM/Camera).
You have to link again that folder.
To do that, open your tree, then go to:
  ☰ → Media → ⋮ → Media folders → + → Navigate to the folder → Select it

Probably you will experience some slowness on displaying the media.
About that you can read: https://github.com/michelesalvador/FamilyGem/wiki#from-version-12-media-loaded-from-not-owned-folders-are-slow

[Uwe Krätzig]

Relinking my photo folder worked, thank you! For speeding up the sloooooow display of photos I used "Solution A" from your wiki. But now every time I add some photos I have to remember the additional task "Copy to app storage". So I would prefer this function running automatically.

Am 11.07.2025 um 09:36 schrieb Michele Salvador:
>> on my phone Family Gem has lost all connections between persons and photos. When I look at a person there is only a placeholder instead of the photo.
>

> Most probably the media files of your tree are stored in some random folder in the shared storage (e.g. *//Pictures/*, or *//DCIM/Camera/*).

> You have to link again that folder.
> To do that, open your tree, then go to:

> *  ☰* → *Media* → *⋮* → *Media folders* → *+* → Navigate to the folder → Select it

[Michele Salvador]

now every time I add some photos I have to remember the additional task "Copy to app storage". So I would prefer this function running automatically.

It looks strange to me that you have to use Copy to app storage each time..
How do you "add some photos" to the tree?
Probably you do something like this:
  person Profile → Media tab → + → New media → Choose one app → Select one media
This procedure already automatically copies the media file to the app storage.

[Uwe Krätzig]

Thank you for clarifying this. I thought this was an action which had to be repeated for added photos, but it is an option. So it's a perfect solution.

Vom Handy gesendet

11.07.2025 15:24:38 Michele Salvador <chico...@gmail.com>: