This is exactly the issue I am having. I have one family member who is rewriting history in my tree because of personal vendettas/agendas against other family members. But to block or remove this person completely would start a family war that I do not wish to start. I would just like to give that one person the ability to view only and not be able to edit. In the meantime - every time they delete an ex-husband, etc., I have to go and add them back in - and it's very difficult at times to catch the changes in my very large tree when this person touches say 12 people at once.
Please, please make rights-access a priority. I'm at a loss about how to handle this within my family.
Thank you so much for your prompt reply, and e-mail response. Until we have the option to restrict individuals, I think I will have to have two trees -- one for the family to mess around with, and one with limited access. Not sure how else to handle it. Thanks again.
Any update on this. I just started this and uploading all photos. And now find that one of the members downloaded pictures and uploaded to his own site, which I don't agree with.
It has cost me loads of travels and hours to scan the pictures, and now somebody else is copying the pictures in no time and showing off with my stuff.
Read only, website for people, website and photos and documents.... Quick please.
By default, members of your family site can edit the trees on your site.
However, if your tree was created in Family Tree Builder and published to your family site, then both you and your members cannot edit your tree online. In order to update your tree, you will then have to re-publish from your family site, and your tree will be replaced with the newly published one.
You can also have a tree that is editable online, and yet choose to make it read only to your site members, so that they will not be able to edit it. To do so, please go into Settings > Privacy, and under the members tab you will see the checkbox ‘Can site members edit the family tree'. Make sure to save your settings.
Unfortunately, you cannot restrict your members from having access to your photos and documents to download them.
Could it be possible to have an icon to say that the E-Mail you have sent has been read or unread by the recipient?
To do this when a message is sent to the recipient from Myheritage to say you have a message, you will have to exclude the content of the message and then the person would have to go to the inbox to read the message.
The reason I ask is, you would know if the person is active on the site or not using the email address associated with the site (or just ignoring you)
I will pass the idea on to the development team for consideration.
In the meantime, there is not much that we can do regarding a member that is unresponsive. What I can suggest to you is to go to that persons profile and add a comment to their profile. They will then get an e-mail, and perhaps they will be more likely to get in touch with you.
Would it be possible to have year of birth in the description when adding people to Photos and Documents
IE I have and am sure others do, lots of people by the same name
For example "Benjamin Rout" in the search you get 1st cousin 2 times removed 2nd cousin 5 times removed ect but if you have 2 or even more with the same description you have to add them both and then delete the inapropriate one.
If you hade a DOB you would then be able to select the correct one, as the chances of getting the same desription and DOB, (well maybe you could).
Hi, I dont Know if you have done anything to help in this suggestion! But!! I put the year of Birth of All "Benjamins" in the little box on the tree builder which houses the Choice "Esq, 1 2 3 Jn Sr". It Didnt work after I did it but it is now displaying on the selection which makes it easier to select the person. so it is not actually the field for the year of birth.
But if you havnt done anything then Im amazed as it didnt display that field yesterday.
Just to chirp up again with this subject. You actually need the same thing for reports,
Relationship report you cannot pick a person by name and 1st cousin description, its the same as adding photos if you have lots of people by the same name.
I dont know if anything has been done on the program about this feature? but I have been using the Title button to put the year of birth for nearly all people on my tree as I said before that there are lots of John Routs and its difficult to tag people.
Now I have just downloaded the new version of the publisher and the space for the title is only 2 digits now not 4 so it cant hold a year of birth. can it be put back to 4 digit?
I think that a very important function that seems to be missing here is an information given to at least the administrator of the site, if not all members, as to the latest changes made to the tree or albums. I am looking for a detail as to which individual in the tree was changed (and by whom) and which field in that profile was changed. When many members make changes to the tree I think it is imperative that we are able to keep track of the changes made, especially that there is no functionality to block editing rights to a part of the tree by members from a distant part of a tree.
I want to support this request and add that when I do changes as the Site Manager and my family users see on the next day that I updated the tree. It would be very helpfull and good for them to know what where the changes and if they are intreasted to look into them.
It is currently so difficult to visualize the overview of the tree or a specific branch of the tree... .. especially if it's a larger tree such as mine in the MyHeritage online family trees.
Would it be possible to include a "pedigree view" AND an "Outline view" of descendant's of a particular person in the tree ?
Right now i have to constantly change over to my Family Tree Maker software to see these views in order to visualize the tree as a whole. .... and i know most of my cousins in my family tree dont have other family tree software such as FTM or FTB to visualize this.... so i'm hoping that you can ask your developers to include these views in the online version of our trees.
Please let me know if this is planned or in the works ! !
What I suggest that you do is to use the Descendants or Ancestors chart (Fan, Horizontal or Vertical) to create a visual chart for each major branch in the tree. You can adjust the style and color of the chart.
Save the chart as a PDF when you are finished. This will allow you better
Hi Ester.... yes i'm aware that you can print forms like that but what i'm saying is that often while i'm working with my family tree... i click on a person to quickly see thier pedigree and descendants.... to better visualize that tree... and instead of going through the process of printing a form... it's just a quick look.
it would be nice if MyHeritage had that option as we're viewing the tree online to see it in the form of a "pedigree:" or "outline of desendant" view.
Hello. It has been two years since this post and still no pedigree view. I thank MyHeritage for the free service and it is my favourite site of the kind. But the pedigree view would be a great had and I'm sure a simple one in terms of programming.
Why not have something on the Family Tree SITE itself that links immediately to the Family Tree BUILDER so it's possible to flick between the two, to add or edit data? I find it immensely frustrating having to leave one programme and find the other!! cheers, John
I have a large family tree, with many side branches. It would be nice if each member of my site could have the family tree default to himself, rather than having to navigate from myself to his person.
My tree was imported from Meusparentes.com and this was the way trees were shown back there; each one would see the tree as his own.
