GeneWeb 4.08

Here have been the changes since the previous version:

Languages

• [26 Nov 02] Added Romanian (Erich Müller).
• [12 Nov 02] Added Bulgarian (Dimiter Skordev).
• [11 Sep 02] Added documentation in Italian (Latino Imparato).

GeneWeb server or CGI (gwd)

• [09 Dec 02] Added link "wizard/notes" in welcome page to allow each wizard to set and modify his personal notes for the database, which are visible by everybody. Works only if the wizards are defined in a file defined by the variable "wizard_passwd_file" of the database configuration file.
• [01 Dec 02] Added ability for named wizards (wizards defined in a wizard password file) to remove the messages they posted. messages in the database forum.
• [14 Nov 02] Fixed bug: in database notes updates, there was no check that the update form was up to date: it was then possible to submit old versions, and there was no conflict access check (that two wizards try to change the notes at the same time).
• [08 Nov 02] Fixed bad (strange) displaying of French Republican and Hebrew dates when the precision is not "Sure".
• [06 Nov 02] In family form, one can now set the sex of created witnesses.
• [30 Oct 02] In places/surnames pages, now the surname links point to the surname, not to a person holding this surname associated with the place: it is less useful but too many people blamed me that it was a bug. Old behaviour if the base configuration variable "place_surname_link_to_ind" is set to "yes". Configurable by the gwtp interface.
• [23 Oct 02] In families forms, added shortcuts for created persons' dates: one can write: "?year" to indicate "perhaps", ">year" or "year/" to indicate "after", "<year" or "/year" to indicate "before", "/year/" to indicate "about". And in the "death" field, one can write "+" to indicate "died don't know when", and "-" to indicate "alive".
• [10 Oct 02] The GeneWeb logo in bottom of pages is now clickable and return to the database welcome page.
• [02 Oct 02] In displaying by surname, added ability to mask children: the families are prefixed by a clickable "o": when clicked, the same page is displayed but without the children of that family, and a clickable "+" is displayed at the place of the "o". Useful for big families, when it is often not easy to see the siblings.
• [12 Sep 02] Fixed bug: in relationship by "shortest path", the selection "include spouses" was not reported when trying the next path.

Lexicon (lang/lexicon.txt)

• [28 Nov 02] (Technical point for translators in GeneWeb languages) Changed entries "the father-in-law/the mother-in-law", "a son-in-law/a daughter-in-law" and "a brother-in-law/a sister-in-law": now the entries can have 4 values to separate the cases when they are 1/ "of a man" 2/ "of a woman", some languages (e.g. Bulgarian) making the distinction.

Gedcom to GeneWeb (ged2gwb) and GeneWeb to Gedcom (gwb2ged)

• [14 Nov 02] Fixed bug: relation date and place of unmaried persons were not imported.
• [08 Nov 02] Fixed bad imports and exports of non Gregorian dates intervals.

Templates files (etc/*.txt)

• [25 Oct 02] For perso.txt, added macros: "file_exists_nnn" returning true (for a "%if") if the file nnn exists; and "key" returning the person's key.
• [19 Sep 02] Changed the template file "perso.txt" to decompose the macro "married_to" into the different parts of this text, allowing to present it differently.

Base configuration files (base.gwf)

• [22 Oct 02] Added configuration variable public_if_no_date: all persons having no date are considered as public, except if their "access" field has been explicitely set to "Private" (default: no).
• [22 Oct 02] Added configuration variable propose_place_surnames to propose or not the displaying by place / surnames in the welcome page (defaut: yes).
• [31 Aug 02] Added configuration variable max_cousins_level to specify the maximum level of displayed cousins (default: t).

GeneWeb compiler (gwc) and GeneWeb uncompiler (gwu)

• [22 Oct 02] Fixed bug: when cleaning up a database, if the images file names started with numbers (eg. 123abc.jpg), they were restored with an underscore at the beginning (eg. _123abc.jpg).

Installation

• [01 Nov 02] Added (Unix) "man" pages (installed by "make install"); built by Christan Perrier (thanks to him!).
• [31 Oct 02] When building GeneWeb from source files: added a "make install" which installs the executables in /usr/bin and the system files in /usr/share/geneweb. Added also "make uninstall" which undoes it.

Documentation

• [31 Oct 02] In the "modifications" chapter ("How to make modifications in the database), added a section (5.9) for dates shortcuts in the families forms (French and English versions only).

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