I had problem yesterday posting a two page news item in the article section (APPS/Article). After clicking on 'Save' the screen was getting blank and was not progressing for along time and the item posted was not getting listed among the posted items. Finaly i could post it after splitting the article into two and posting them seperately. is there a size limit here also? If there is such a limit, at least an error message should have come. Further I have posted similar long post in the same place earlier. Will you please clarify.
There shouldn't be a limit on the length of the article. There is a specific issue with the long article you tried to post. It includes special formats of text (fonts, colors) and links. I suspect that the combination of these special formats caused the page to break (the white page you saw).
I am happy you managed to solve this problem by spliting the articles.
I will also forward this issue to our development team to investigate if there is anything we can do from our side, to prevent this from happening again.
I see that there is a way to add a Family Address which is useful but it could be better if you have the option to select what people it applies to. For example if I add a Family Address to my parents, that address should also be applied to me as well since I am part of the family. RIght now the address is only applied to my parents.
These address also do not show up in the contact list in the details of each person, this would be uefulas it would also show up on the map.
There should also be a way to choose a time period when each person lived at a that Family Address and have to option to have multiple Family Addresses. Example Family Address #1: My parents, my siblings and myself, Family Address #2: Myself, my wife and our children etc.
I am afraid the currently we don't have this option and you need to enter the address fields for each person.
I think this idea and the map idea are great and will be very useful.
I will forward your suggestions to our development team for further consideration
In the meantime you will have to copy the fields for each person.
Please notice that we do have a date field for each address you enter and you can also add multiple addresses (click 'Add additional address' at the bottom of the edit window).
It would be helpful if "Cemetery:" was also displayed for "In my family tree" like it is on the "Historical record" for "matches in Find a Grave". Just displaying the "Burial" value would be very helpful. As it is now I need to do many steps to compare the vaules for Cemetery between the two records.
Also having a field in the profile for a deceased person for thier "Find a Grave" Memorial number would be helpful. That would allow for matching by Find a Grave Memorial#.
If I could also have my "Find a Grave" user name in my "myheritage" profile, then when you display matches from Find a Grave, it could show if it was one of mine or not.
I still think it is necessary to give visitors to my family site different levels of authorization. There are some people who should be given full authorization, as is done for everyone today. There are others who should just be able to update, but not necessarily invite others. I had one "outside" family member invite her sister-in-law who added a few dozen of her family -- and you can be sure that I have no desire for them to be on our family tree. They should have set up their own tree, but didn't know any better. Third, there should be people who merely look at the tree without any update capability. I can envision some people, with no training in using the site, trying to change things and screwing up the data others have entered into the site.
Under the Site Access options you can make it so that members can't invite other members. It was tough enough finding that so don't ask me how I did it. There is another section somewhere about whether or not members can update the tree and in what ways, like just add to the tree, or add and edit, but I can't find that right now either. You'd think those would be in the same place, but they apparently aren't.
I just wanted to add to Eric's response taht another way to set permissions for users is under the section: Account > Site Settings > General > Permissions. There you can select if you want users to be able to edit or not your tree and photos.
Sorry but I followed the path you stated and when I got there I couldn't find permissions. I will copy the page into this letter. IT will not come out exactly as it appears on the site but will give a better picture of what we see. Although I see three tabs when I look at the site, here I can see the fourth tab without any text. I assume that is where PERMISSIONS should appear.
Both Yaniv Stern and I are defined as administrators of the site and neither of us could see PERMISSIONS.
Under administaration the only option is to erase the entire site!!.
Address:
Site
Personalize
Administration
Specify the simplicity level of administration screens like this one
Simple
- recommended for most Site managers
Advanced
- recommended for technically savvy Site managers
This setting can also be modified at the top of each administration screen
Describe your web site
*
Title:
e.g. Kramer Family Website
Subtitle:
e.g. Welcome to our corner on the Internet
*
Description:
E.g.: List the surnames of the main families using the site
*
Primary use of site:
Immediate family siteExtended family siteGenealogy siteCommunity siteCommon interest siteAlumni siteOtherPhoto albumsFriends & funDNA research groupFun genealogy sitePhotos
I made an error on my explanation.Sorry for that! The correct path to enter to the Permissions section is: Account > Site Settings > CONTENT > Permissions.
If I am correct, the list shows up sorted in a number of alternatives, but in every case you have to use a boolean search on the pages to HIT the pae with the name you are looking for. Why can't they letters ABCDEetc be listed so you can click on the first letter of the name you are searching for. I have 30 pages of names and have to guess which page to start at if I want to find someone with M or T or J. It can be improved.
You are correct that the seach function can be greatly improved for the invite members page.
Here is a suggestion for the time being- go to the family tree, and search for a person in the tree, then enter their email address from there. They will be automatically invited to the site.
I have invited family members who needed a reminder after a few days or weeks. There is no way to send an new reminder. There should be a possibility to resend the invite. Otherwise there is no way to ge them into the site. Rather embarrasing, to say the least.
The option to re-invite or remind a member that has not yet visited the site does show a month after you have invited them, if they have still not yet visited the site.
I really like the new record matches.It has helped me to correct errors from information that others have put in.But now that I corrected them it would be nice to have a way for us to know that we have corrected it so if we get matches from others and they have different information we could know that we already corrected it and have the right information and not put in the wrong information again.Maybe some type of icon that would show us?
I haven't had much time to look at the new record matches yet in detail but a few comments, suggestions
1) Do you really expect me to manually extract info from the match once you've found it for me? Makes no sense to me. I expect you , once I've confirmed a match, to attach it to the record. If it is hard data , like a death date, which conflicts with existing info, I expect you to ask me how to resolve this
2) In displaying the list of record matches, it would help greatly if you indicate how many of each i ahev already confirmed, rejected or are still waiting for review
First: Thank you so much for your comments. They are highly appreciated.
Please note that we are planning to add the option to automatically copy the Record Matches to the feature, but we have a little more work to do on the structure before we can make the switch.We will add the option in the next version of the Record Matchest to be released. For more information about what is comming next, I would like to recommend you to see the blog post:http://blog.myheritage.com/2012/09/introducing-record-matching/ specifically the section: "Enhancements on the way"
Thanks again for your suggestions. Please contact me for further comments or questions.
I have suggested it before, but I have not got any response whether MyHeritage will do anything about it, so I will try again and see if anyone agrees with me.
It seems apparent to me that it is far more efficient to browse a tree that is horizontal, (try Ancestry.com to see), instead of having to scrool endless of empty space on the screen sideways.
MyHeritage: Do you have any plans to enhance the graphics of the web sites?
Other customers: Do you agree that this is something that we really want?
Thank you for the message. Yes, in a few months we will release a new family tree (based on HTML 5). If you have iPhone, iPad or Android - you can download our mobile app - and see moreless how it will be looks like.
We are also planning some changes - soon we will inform about it. Please follow our updates on the blog: http://blog.myheritage.com/.
I tried to install the app to take a look, but I suppos my OS on my phone is a little bit outdated, so it would not install. Anyway I took a look on Youtube and based on that video, the app does not include the feature to present the familly tree horizontal instead of vertical. It is even more suprising on an app, since these devices have smaller screens than laptops and stationary pc:s. If I were responsible for the development I would make sure that the screen is used as effective as possible.
Can you confirm that the alternative horizontal tree layout is something that will be provided in the next release of MyHeritage?
