The properties below are used by one or more chart types. All properties are not available for all chart types, and the exact use of some properties differs by chart type.
Please note that Second Site charts are designed for modern browsers. Browsers must be compliant with the CSS1 specification in order to display the charts properly. Firefox, Internet Explorer 6+ and Netscape 6+ will give very good results. Please see the Browser Support page for more information.
Subject ID
Specify the TMG ID number of subject of the chart in the Subject ID textbox. You make one chart per User Item, but you can add as many chart User Items as you want.
Title
The Title textbox determines the title of the chart.
Description
Use the Description textbox to define an optional chart description that is printed near the top of the chart page.
Generations
Use the Generations pull-down menu to specify how many generations the chart should contain. The default is 10 generations. The menu choices include "unlimited" as well as 1 generation to 25 generations.
Continue Excluded Lines
For an explanation of the Continue Excluded Lines property, please see the Chart Membership page.
Suppress Duplicates
If Suppress Duplicates is checked, Second Site will detect duplicates in the chart and stop processing the lineage for the second and subsequent duplicates. Boxes for all the duplicates are distinctly formatted so that finding duplicates in the chart is easy. The default is checked.
Names
The Name Options pull-down menu has the following choices:
- Full Name
- Name (Middle Initials)
- Surname Only
The default value is "Name (Middle Initials)". If you choose "Surname Only", the user can see the full name by positioning the mouse over the name until a tooltip is displayed. The tooltip will contain the full name.
Full names require more horizontal space than surnames only, but it is easier to find a specific person in the chart.
Lifespans and Dates
The Box Lifespan Option pull-down menu controls the lifespan in the chart box. It has the following choices:
- No lifespan in box
- Lifespan on subject line
- Lifespan on second line
- Dates on separate lines
The first two choices are similar to the Index Lifespan Option property in the Dates section.
If you select No lifespan in box, no lifespan will be visible in the chart. The user can see the lifespan by positioning the mouse over the name until a tooltip is displayed. The tooltip will include the complete birth and death dates.
If you choose Lifespan on subject line, the lifespan will be included after the subject's name. If you choose Lifespan on second line, the lifespan will be included on the line after the subject's name. If you choose Dates on separate lines, each date will appear on a separate line.
You should experiment to see which format suits your fancy.
The Box Lifespan Format pull-down menu controls the lifespan format for the chart box. It has the same choices as the lifespan formats property described in the Dates section.
The Box Date Format pull-down menu controls the format of the dates in the chart boxes. It has the same choices as the date formats property described in the Dates section.
The Tip Date Format pull-down menu controls the format of the dates that appear as tooltips when the user places the mouse over a box in the chart. It has the same choices as the date formats property described in the Dates section.
If you set the Box Lifespan Option to No lifespan in box, the tooltip will contain the lifespan. Otherwise, if the Box Date Format and Tip Date Format are different, the tooltip will contain the lifespan.
The choices you make for the Name Options and Date Options properties have a dramatic effect on the box size requirements. You must experiment to determine how big or small to make the boxes. Box locations and connector locations are determined by the box dimension properties. If you do not set the box dimensions large enough, information will be truncated.
Legend Position
If Legend Position property determines whether a chart legend will be displayed with the chart, and if so, where it will appear:
- None – no legend
- Top – legend on the top only
- Top, Bottom – legend on the top and bottom
- Bottom – legend on the bottom only (default)
