Admin Cemeteries Search

Admin Cemeteries Search (formerly Admin Cemeteries List)
Summary	Adds numerous controls to the Admin Cemeteries Search page to filter the search and include optional data in the results.
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Mod Updated	1 Dec 2019
Download link	v12.0.0.9 TNG 12.0
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Author(s)	Robin Richmond
Homepage	This page
Mod Support	My Mod Support form or TNG Community Forums
Contact Developer	My Mod Support form
Latest Mod	12.0.0.9
Min TNG V	12.0
Max TNG V	at least 12.2
Files modified	admin_cemeteries.php, adminlib.php, css/genstyle.css, English cemetery_help.php, English cust_text.php; Installs rrcemeteriessearch_ajx.php, rrcemeteriessearch_lib.php; May Install rrinnermodmenu1.php, rrshared_modsettings1_include.php, rrshared_wikilogo.png
Related Mods	Cemetery Edit, Field Buttons, Admin Places Geocode
Notes

Purpose of the Mod

This distinctly large and complex mod adds filtering, searching, and formatting options to the Admin >> Cemeteries >> Search page in order to produce what amounts to a variety of what I hope are a variety of useful reports.

Among other things, it

• Uses checkboxes to control whether selected result table columns are displayed,
• Can filter results through hierarchical drop-down location boxes,
• Can filter results according to the number of headstones tied to a cemetery, or the number of burial events at the places associated with the cemetery.
• Sorts the results table in several ways,
• Controls which fields are searched by the search string,
• Reveals which database fields are being searched,
• Has location drop down boxes to allow the search to focus on a specific location

See the Visualizations for details

Mod Options

1. Default value for the country selection box. ("USA")
2. A list of fieldnames that set the initial state of checkboxes that determine whether optional fields (maplink, notes) are searched.
3. A list of fieldnames that set the initial state of checkboxes that control whether optional data (notes, burials, headstones, geocodes] are displayed in the results table.
4. A list of names that determine whether certain controls are shown on the search form at all.

The mod options are illustrated in a visualization below. The mod options are custom TNG settings, defined and edited in the form at Admin>>Setup>>General Settings, in a new subform named Robin's Mod's. This subform takes advantage of a scheme that I call Mod Settings Blocks. See the last Visualization below.

Mod Conflicts

I don't know of any conflicts (other than older versions of some Related Mods. As far as I know, this mod and its companion mod, Cemetery Edit, are the only published mods that affect the Cemeteries administration programs.

Related Mods

1. My Cemetery Edit mod is closely related, and I recommend it as a companion to this mod. Still, these two mods are independent of each other. Cemetery Edit modifies the Cemetery Edit screen extensively, whereas this mod focuses on the Admin Cemeteries Search.
2. The optional Field Buttons mod installs a Javascript library that this mod uses to add small "Field Buttons" buttons that serve as editing shortcuts in HTML forms.
   • If Field Buttons IS installed, then it must be version 3 or higher.
   • If Field Buttons IS NOT installed, then the little Field Buttons are simply not displayed.
3. The optional Show Mod Names mod will display information about mods that have affected the running program. (Note that this is different from the Mod Manager Analyzer, which list the mods that modify a specific file.
   • If Show Mod Names IS installed, then it must be version 5 or higher.
   • If Show Mod Names IS NOT installed, then nothing bad will happen; the mod information will simply not be available.

Files Modified

1. admin_cemeteries.php - The Admin Cemeteries Search page, which is the target of almost all of the changes
2. genstyle.css - Style rules that define minimum widths for some result table columns
3. cemetery_help.php English - Modified fairly extensively to describe the new search form, to describe the meaning of TNG "Cemeteries" vs Burial Places. The help file also now links to two Wiki articles (including this one).
4. admintext.php English - Around 50 new strings

Installation

Files Installed

This mod has two mod subfolders:

1. admin_cemeteries_search_v12.0.0.9 - The subfolder that you expect to exist for any mod that installs files. It contains
   1. rradmincemeterysearch_ajx.php - An AJAX program that reads place jurisdiction values (i.e. a set of states, counties, or cities) that are appropriate for the selection that a user has made in a higher-level jurisdiction.
   2. rradmincemeterysearch_lib.php - A function library used by admin_cemeteries.php and the AJAX program listed just above. It actually has only one function, which is used by admin_cemeteries.php to populate the location drop-down boxes as the page is loaded, and by AJAX OnChange functions that invoke rradmincemeterysearch_ajx.php to populate lower-ordered location drop-down boxes when a selection is made in a higher-ordered location drop-down box. (See comments within rradmincemeterysearch_ajx.php for more details.)
2. The shared folder RR-shared_mod_includes_v12.0.0.2, which contains files that support functionality that is implemented in many of my mods:
   1. rrshared_innermodmenu2.php - Inner Mod Menus
   2. rrshared_modsettingsblocks2.php - Mod Settings Blocks
   3. img/rrshared_wikilogo.gif - An icon that links to a mod's TNG Wiki page.

The shared folder is packaged with several mods, each of which may install some or all of its files. Once a file from this folder has been installed (by any mod), that file will not be overwritten or removed by the subsequent installation or un-installation of any mod (including this one), nor will its presence generate any Mod Manager errors.

If you unzip mod distribution files directly into your mods folder, then the presence of this second subfolder and the installation of its files should be invisible to you. But if you generally copy mod subfolders to your mods folder, you need to make sure to copy the folder RR-shared_mod_includes_v12.0.0.2 (well, unless you are confident that it is already in your mods folder because it was part of another mod).

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Requirements

• A working TNG installation.
• An installed current version of the Mod Manager.
• You should backup files listed in the panel on the right.

Procedure

1. Remove and delete previous version of this mod.
2. Backup the files updated by this mod. They are listed in the panel at the upper right.
3. Download the .zip file, Extract its .cfg file to the mods folder.
4. Follow the normal automated installation for Mod Manager, as shown in the example Mod Manager - Installing Config Files.

Problems?

1. Try using the Mod Manager Remove capability
2. Contact me through My Mod Support form.

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Visualizations

The last of these visualizations shows the mod options from mod version 9, in their Mod Settings Block. All of the other visualizations are from mod version 8, but the only visible difference in mod version 9 is the arrangement of links in the Inner Menu, as described in the "After Installation" visualization below.

The unmodified Admin Cemeteries Search page

After Installation - Overview Legend: In the Inner Menu: Mod version 8 - Two links, to the mod parameters editor in Mod Manager, and to these visualizations in the Wiki article. Mod version 9 - My new Inner Mod Menu, which is a drop-down menu at the right end of the Inner Menu, and which contains various links describing the mod, and a direct link to the its mod options editor (which is shown in the last visualization) A new set of "Location" controls. Each place component (country, state, etc) has a smart selection box. They are "smart" in the sense that They are populated with values based on the selected value for the next-higher-level jurisdiction. If there is only one possible value - for instance, if Manning County is the only county in Idaho in this site's Cemeteries table - then that value is automatically selected, and the possible values for the next jurisdiction are populated based on that value. When a state has been selected but no county has been selected, the County field is populated with that state's counties, and the Cities field is populated with all cities and their county. As a result, you can select a city without necessarily selecting its county first. When a place component value is selected, that component is removed from the list of fields that are searched by the search string (#6). The search string has HTML placeholder text that tells you about characters that have special meaning to the search field (see a visualization below). The string also has "field buttons" (see the Field Buttons mod and a visualization below). The 'X' button clears the field. An information icon is a link to the portion of the Cemeteries help page that describes the changes to the Cemeteries search form - particularly the controls that follow the information icon. A dynamic list of the fields that are searched by the search key. When you select place component values (Country, state, etc.) from the drop-down menus, those fields are removed from this list. These two checkboxes indicate whether the corresponding fields are searched. The default values for the two checkboxes are controlled by a Mod Parameter. The field "maplink" - the URL of a cemetery map - is included because the native TNG code always searched it. The Results Per Page field, which defaults to the system-wide "Max Search Results" parameter value at the beginning of a browser session, and its attached field buttons. Checkboxes that determine whether certain columns are included in the search results. The default values of these boxes are determined by a Mod Option. Note that the "Notes" checkbox here controls whether the Notes are in the results table, whereas the "notes" checkbox just above (#6) determines whether the Notes field is searched. In the visualization, the Geocodes will be omitted, and the Associated Places and Notes will be included in the table. (A visualization below explains why "Associated Places" is plural). Two checkboxes determine whether the results will show the number of burials at a cemetery and/or the number of headstone photos associated with the cemetery. When either checkbox is selected, an additional set of controls appears next to them. Those additional controls are shown in another visualization below. If either of the counts (#9) is selected, you can sort the results by one of the counts (but not both). See the Sorting Results section of this article for more details. A drop-down selection list determines a second sort key order (after the count - if a count is selected). Again, see the Sorting Results section of this article for more details. The search parameters including the sort order, are listed just above the results table. The new "Place" column displays the cemetery's Associated Placename, and is displayed only if the Associated Places checkbox (#8) is selected. If the Geocodes checkbox (also #8) is selected, the geocodes for the Associate Place are displayed, too. The FindAGrave Cemetery hyperlinks in the Notes column are a result of the FindAGrave Links mod. I do not enter a full hyperlink in the Cemetery Notes field. Instead, I just enter a FindAGrave cemetery number in the format "CRid=nnn", and the FindAGrave Links mod converts "CRid=nnn" into a hyperlink to the correct FindAGrave cemetery page.

Location Selection Controls

When a state is selected, but not a county, the City field becomes City and County, so you can select cities without having to select a county first. In this case, I have selected cemeteries in Washington County that are not in a city. The Location selected by the Location controls is shown in the list of search parameters. There would ordinarily be a "Location" column between the Cemetery column and the Associated Place column. But, given the selected location, all of the cemeteries in the results table have the same location. Since the location is now shown as a search parameter just above the results table, the Location column is omitted.

When a state is selected, but not a county, the City field becomes City and County, so you can select cities without having to select a county first. In this case, I have selected cemeteries in Washington County that are not in a city. The Location selected by the Location controls is shown in the list of search parameters. There would ordinarily be a "Location" column between the Cemetery column and the Associated Place column. But, given the selected location, all of the cemeteries in the results table have the same location. Since the location is now shown as a search parameter just above the results table, the Location column is omitted.

Burial Count Controls

(In this screen clip, the blue numbers continue the numbering of new features from the earlier screen clip with numbers 1-14) In the location controls, the state of Iowa has been selected. The "Count burials" checkbox has been checked, (Blue number 15) Controls that set a criterion on the counts are visible because the "Count burials" checkbox was checked. There are three controls: The checkbox that activates the criterion The comparison operator, where "less than" has been selected, and The value to which the count is compared, which has been set to 10. This is a number field that allows the user to use little arrows to increment or decrement the count. The Sort by Burial count checkbox has been activated by marking the Count Burials checkbox, and is selected. The "ASCending/DESCending" sort selection control has been set to "DESCending" for the Burial Count sort. The search and sort criteria just above the results table show the The Burial count is shown in a column titled "Bur". That column is the first data column in the table because the Burial count is the primary sort field. If the Sort By Burial Count checkbox were not checked, the Burial Count column would be far to the right. (Blue number 16) Because a partial location has been selected (Iowa, USA), the location column is called "Sub-location" and does not show the full location of the cemetery, but only the portion of the location that is within the selected location. Since the location search criterion is shown just above the results table, users can easily determine the full location if they forget the selected location.

Two trees with the same Associated Place

The search string is "lake" The sort order "Country, State, County, City, Cemetery Name (as opposed to the first option, "Cemetery Name, City, County...) causes the location names to be expressed with Country first. The Search and sort options show that the sort order will be country first. Because the Location is the primary sort key, it is the first data column in the results table. Also, the country (USA) has already been selected, so it is not needed in the Location column, which shows location names with the state first, to be consistent with the sort order. (The blue numbers continue the numbering of new features) The Geocodes column abbreviates both the column name and the data values. The superscript 1 refers to a footnote that explains the field contents. There are two significant aspects of the Associated Place data: Because the Geocodes column is displayed, the geocodes of the Associated Place are displayed, with the same rounding as in the Geocodes column. In the second result, there are two values for the Tree and geocodes, because the Associated Place occurs in two trees. The footnote associated the the Geocodes column explains which values are in the column, and notes the rounding of the latitude and longitude values.

Field Buttons See the Field Buttons Wiki article, or Open an annotated visualization here [Hide details] In the screen clip above, new feature 18 is the field buttons. For the search string field: The X button will clear the search string value. The R button will restore the field to the value it had when the page was loaded. For the Results per page field: The R button, as above, will restore the field to the value it had when the page was loaded. The D button will assign a default value to the field. In this case, the default value is the TNG system parameter "Max Search Results". The A button will assign a value that means "All Items". In this case, that value is 'all'. Buttons that would not change the current value are shaded out, as shown below. In this screen clip, a search has been done with no search string, and with 30 Results per page. As a result: For the search string field: The X button is shaded out because there is no value to clear. The R button is shaded out because we just loaded the page, and the field value is still in its initial state. For the Results per page field: The R button, as above, is shaded out because we just loaded the page. The D button is shaded out because the the field already has the default value (the value of the TNG system parameter "Max Search Results"). The A button is visible because the value is not 'all'. Note that the Field Buttons mod must be installed for the field buttons to be visible, but it is not required for the mod to work. [Hide the Field Buttons visualization]

The Mod Options, in a Mod Settings Block The Mod Settings Block for Admin Cemeteries Search (like most other Mod Settings Blocks) is at Admin>>Setup>>General Settings in a new subform named Robin's Mods. When Mod Settings Block are invoked from an Inner Mod Menu, the Admin>>Settings program automatically opens the subform and displays only the target Mod Settings Block, like this:

Sorting Results

The search form provides several ways to sort the query results. The native code always sorts the results by Cemetery name, and then City, County, State, and Country. As it turns out, however, the City, County, State, Country sequence that we use to express a location is not really a very good sort key. In almost all cases, when we want to sort burial placenames, we'd rather group the countries first, and then then states, counties, cities, and cemeteries. Therefore, an option to sort by Country, state, county, city, Cemetery has been added.

A third option is to sort by the Associated Place, in which, unlike Cemeteries, has the burial place name, the city, county, state, and country, all in one field.

The three location-related sort options are in a drop-down selection box.

When the user elects to include cemetery burial counts or headstone counts in the search results, either one of those counts (but not both) can also be a sort key, and is always the primary key.

In all, there are nine possible sort orders: 3 options for the 'count' key (burial count, headstone count, none) multiplied by 3 options for the location sort key.

Custom CSS

I really hate to add style rules to genstyle.css because

• Other mods add dozens (upon dozens) of style rules to genstyle.css, and
• The rules added by mods are generally needed by only one or two programs.
• Besides, the more rules there are in genstyle.css, the more likely it is that rules will collide.

So, this mod adds an embedded stylesheet to admin_cemeteries.php, and uses Javascript to re-position it the DOM before the <link> tag that incorporates genstyle.css. Consequently, you can override these style rules just as you would any other style rules in genstyle.css, that is, either by

• Placing new rules at the bottom of genstyle.css,
• (generally preferably) Adding new rules to your template's mytngstyle.css, which is in your template's css folder.

The embedded style sheet for this mod can be found by searching for the string <style) in the mod's .cfg file.

Revision History

Mod Version	TNG Version	Date	Note
12.0.0.9	12.0+	13Sep2019	The search form and results table are unchanged, though some labels and help text may be different. Several bug fixes (see the revision history in the .cfg file) The mod's settings are in a Mod Settings Block at Admin>>Setup>>General Settings>>Robin's Mods] Added an Inner Mod Menu to admin_cemeteries.php. If the Field Buttons mod is installed, it must be version 3+ Geocoordinates will be rounded only if version 4+ of Admin Places Geocode is installed. (Older versions shouldn't conflict with this mod. This mod simply won't find the geocoordinate rounding parameter from earlier versions.)
12.0.0.8c	12.0+	8 May 2018	No functional changes; brought to TNGv12 specs
12.0.0.8b	11.0 - 11.1.2+	10 Feb 2017	No visible changes All hyperlinks to the TNG Wiki use https Removed a debugging statement that had been left in the code. Added a "don't print on printer" class to the tab menu and innermenu, and the Action and Select columns of the results table. Also no longer uses the external spreadsheet robinmods.css. Instead, the "don't print on printer" class is defined in an embedded stylesheet.
Admin Cemeteries Search v11.0.0.8	11.0 - 11.1.1+	18 Sep 2017	[Show details] [Hide details] Small changes Right-justifies the label column in the search form layout table. Applies a style class (rrnoprinter) to some elements on the Admin Cemeteries Search page so that they do not print. Removes dependencies on the DisplayModNames and Blue Info Button mods.ppl The big change... added numerous controls to the search form to Enable new results table columns, Filter results in new ways, Sort the results table, Reveal which database fields are searched by the text search, and Control which fields are searched by the search string. The controls are: 3 checkboxes enable or disable 3 optional columns in the results table. The default checkbox status for each of the 3 checkboxes is controlled by a Mod Parameter Cemetery Notes (new) Associated Place (new) - Note that, in databases with more than one tree (and where the trees have separate Places lists), identical places in different tree can all be associated with one cemetery. Geocodes (which is displayed by the Pristine code). 2 checkboxes enable burial counts and headstone counts, which are displayed in the same column. 3 fields in the search table define a new filter on the results table that uses the new burial count and headstone count. These options are visible only if the Burials or Headstones count are enabled. They let the user specify things like "Omit cemeteries where the burial count < 10". The 3 fields are A checkbox that actives the filter, A <select> box of comparison operators, And a value for the comparison. 2 checkboxes allow the results to be sorted by burial OR headstone counts. (The SQL code just can't handle sorting by both.) The checkboxes that enable sorting by burial count OR headstone count are always visible, but are disabled if the corresponding count checkbox is not checked. A selection box allows the user to sort the results by the Cemetery name, Cemetery location, or associated Burial Place (in combination with the Burial or Headstone count) 2 controls specify whether the two sorting options are ascending or descending. These two controls are hyperlinks that toggle the displayed hyperlink text between '(ASC)' and '(DESC)' 4 "smart" selection boxes focus the search by specifying values for Country, State, County, and City. They are "smart" in the sense that if Country=USA, then the States box only offers States in the USA, and if State=Iowa, then the County box only offers counties in Iowa, etc. A control that is not a form field dynamically displays the list of fields that are searched by the text search. As country, state, county, and/or city values are selected by the location controls, those fields are removed from the list. 2 checkboxes in the list of fields searched by the text search string controls whether two fields are searched: Maplink - the hyperlink to the Cemetery map or photo image, which was searched by the pristine code, and Notes, which were not searched by the pristine code [Hide details]
Admin Cemeteries List v9.2.0.5	9.2.0 - 11.0	21 Mar 2016	Converts new lines to <br> tags in the notes field; Depends on Show Mod Names v2+ Tested for TNGv11
Admin Cemeteries List 9.2.0.4	9.2.0 - 10.1	31 Dec 2014	Updated for conformance with v10.1; Changed the Geocode column to round the values to 3 decimal places, and eliminate the keywords.
Admin Cemeteries List v9.2.0.1	9.2.0 - 10.0.0.1	08 May 2014	Initial release.

Sites using this mod

If you download and install this mod, please add your site to the table below.

URL	User	Note	Mod-Version	TNG-Version	User-language
Robin Richmond's Genealogy Database	Robin Richmond	Mod developer	11.0.0.8b	11.1.2	English
MOTYER Family Genealogy	John Mark Motyer	Public site	see here	see here	EN, DE, RU
Total Family History	Scott Bennett	Private Site (For right now)	9.2.0.1	TNG 10.0.1	EN
Mitchell Families Online	Roger Mitchell	Very useful mod	9.2.0.1	10.0.3	EN
The Dutton's of Vermont	Darrin Dutton		9.2.0.4	10.1.0	EN
Brady Family Tree in Western Australia	Darryl Brady	Public site	9.2.0.4	10.1.1	EN, DE
R G Strong Family Genealogy	Russell Strong	Public site	12.0.0.8c	12.0.1	EN, DE, FR, NL
Wortelboer Genealogy	Bernard Wortelboer	Public site	9.2.0.5	11.0.0	NL, EN
Brabantse Genealogie	Rob van Rij	Public Site	9.2.0.5	11.0.1	EN,FR,NL
Woking Family Tree Project	Pete Smee	Public/Private	v12.0.0.8c	v12.1	English
Cole / Tanner Family Tree	David Cole	Public/Private	see here	see here	English
Journeys in Genealogy	Patrick Thrush	Public WordPress/TNG bundle	10.0.0.8	12.0.3	English
Our Family Histories	Bryan S. Larson	Public - T8 customized	see here	see here	EN