Regroup Person Profile

Regroup Person Profile
Summary	Moves things around on the Person Profile page (getperson.php), and compresses whitespace a bit.
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Mod Updated	20 Jan 2019
Download link	v12.0.0.17 TNG 12.0
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Author(s)	Robin Richmond
Homepage	Robin Richmond's Genealogy Database
Mod Support	My Mod Support form or TNG Community Forums
Contact Developer	My Mod Support form
Latest Mod	12.0.0.17
Min TNG V	12.0
Max TNG V	at least 12.0.3
Files modified	getperson.php, personlib.php, genlib.php, globallib.php, css/genstyle.css, English cust_text.php, Norwegian cust_text.php
Related Mods	The Regroup Person Profile family of mods
Notes

== Purpose of the Mod ==

To rearrange the data in the person profile in a way that I find more readable, with less scrolling. Here's a partial list:

1. Just the most basic Person information is listed first, then parents, marriages, and "Other Personal Data".
2. Subheadings are added above parents, marriages, other personal data, the event map, and source citations.
3. I've moved the person's ID number to the heading, right below the person's name, next to the thumbnail photo, and defined a new style class that distinguishes the letter I from a lower-case l or a 1.
4. The Event Map is enlarged a bit, as I've eliminated the mostly-blank left-hand column. It can also be hidden and re-displayed.
5. The Source box is also enlarged with the elimination of the mostly-blank left-hand column. New bolding of the Source titles improve readability a bit. Functionality that initially abbreviates the source citations and allows the user to expand them has been moved to Regroup Person-Sources with mod version 15.
6. In the print-friendly page format, I ignore the cell height for the Sources, figuring that, when you print the page, you want to see all of the sources.
7. The Cause of Death (_DCAUSE), Alias (ALIA) and Race events, plus secondary birth, death, burial, name, and name component events (and facts) are displayed in the main person information block instead of under "Other Personal Events".

See also the subheading Related Mods, some notes under Incompatible Mods, the Visualizations, and additional comments in the .cfg file itself. }}

Mod Parameters

This has two parameters that affect getperson.php:

1. A value that controls whitespace within the HTML data tables by adjusting HTML cellpadding attribute. The TNG default is cellpadding=4. This mod's default is cellpadding=2, but the padding of 4px can be restored (or increased) with this parameter.
2. A flag that determines whether to display person ID's for each parent, spouse, and child.

Related Mods

These mods also affect the Person Profile. (Note that Regroup Person Profile and some of these mods do have side effects in some other TNG programs.)

1. Regroup Person-Date Place - Combines event date, place, and description into one table cell
2. Regroup Person-Move Media - Moves the media files above the map
3. Regroup Person-No Living Data - Suppresses display of ANY data about a living or private person the user doesn't have rights to. By default, TNG will show some data, plus spouses, parents, and children.
4. Regroup Person-Parent Rel - Hides "natural" or "birth" relationships between the person and the parents.
5. Regroup Person-Sources - Starts the display of source citations with just the Source ID, Title, and Author, and provides buttons so the user can display Source details and/or Citation details, for individual source citations and for all source citations..

Compatibility With Other Mods

Dependencies

• Regroup Person-Sources depends on this mod.
• This mod generates information that can be used by Show Mod Names, but it does not depend on Show Mod Names.

Compatible Mods

This is not a complete list of compatible mods that affect the Person Profile.

• This mod is compatible with Census Plus International, Citation Master, Compact Person Media, Default Photo Preview, Event Map add children mod, [[Family Indicators Mod], Family Preview Mod, Geocode Assist Mod, Google Maps - More Place Levels Mod, Living Color Mod, Public Access Control, Relationship Display Mod, Relocate Person Photos, Same Person Link, Simple Titles Mod, Submit Photo/Document Form Mod, Submit Photo Tab Mod, Wiki Integration. (Note: I have tested the installation of Census Plus International and Wiki Integration, but not their functionality.)

Incompatible Mods

This may not be a complete list of incompatible mods. Please contact me if you run into any other conflicts.

• This mod (Regroup Person Profile) is not compatible with Add Person Age Row, Compact Person Media, Divorce Indicator, Family Chart Mod, Family Edit Links Mod, Mobile Site Enhancements, No Notesring, Optional Person Rows, and Person Map.
• This mod is not compatible with ID Prefix Format, butit incorporates the functionality of ID Prefix Format by using an alternate font to make the "I" in person ID's distinct from "l" and "1".
• This mod is also not compatible with Person Map, but incorporates some of the functionality of Person Map in that it can hide and re-display the Event Map.
• This mod conflicts with Adjust Date Column Width, but when the companion mod Regroup Person-Date Place is installed, Adjust Date Column Width becomes pointless, since Regroup Person-Date Place combines the date and location columns.
• This mod conflicts with Add Person Cremated Row, but like Add Person Cremated Row, it creates a Cremation pseudo-event.
• Submit Headstone Photo Mod can be installed 'after this mod. In some versions, installing Submit Headstones Photo Mod creates a Bad Target error in Regroup Person Profile in Mod Manager, but the Person Profile still works. The Bad Target error can be removed by uninstalling Submit Headstone Photo Mod.

Installation

This mod uses the standard installation procedure. {{RobinInstallationBoilerplate}

Visualizations

BEFORE AND AFTER OVERVIEW Click on the image below to see larger side-by-side non-annotated before and after images. Note that the media files have been clipped out because they haven't changed. But the personal and family data is now laid out differently, the Event Map is now slightly wider, and the Sources, by default, show only the titles, not the full citation information. (Note that Some of the changes shown in the visualizations are now implemented by other mods that were extracted from earlier versions of Regroup Person Profile). In particular, Regroup Person-Date Place now combines the date, place, and description for an event into one cell in the display table.)

BEFORE: The personal data section of the original version of the Personal Profile. The red comments indicate how the layout has been changed by the mod. (Again, the changes indicated by the circles in this screenshot are now implemented by a separate mod, Regroup Person-Date Place.)

AFTER: The personal AND family data in the new format. Note that the circled generic thumbnail is a bit smaller, and the overall effect of the changes is to take up less space. Some people would consider this presentation to be "crowded", whereas I consider the default TNG presentation to be "overly sparse". :-) Actually, since I made this screenshot, I have tweaked some style classes so that things are a little less crowded. (And, once more, this screenshot shows event data merged into a single cell, which is now done by a separate mod, Regroup Person-Date Place. It also does not show the Person ID's that are (optionally) placed after the names of parents, spouses, and children.)

AFTER: The new Event Map, which is wider than before because I have eliminated the colored left-hand column, and put the Event Map label in the whitespace above the map. I have also modified the layout of the first pin legend so it wastes less space, and so that it wraps more cleanly when the page is narrow enough to require wrapping. Also note the button outlined in red at the top right, which changes to "Show Event Map" when the Event Map is hidden.

AFTER: The new Sources block, which, like the Event Map, no longer uses the colored left-hand column, and has its label in the whitespace above the sources. To make this mod compatible with Citation Master, this mod no longer abbreviates the source citations and allows the user to click a button to add details. That functionality is now implemented through Regroup Person-Sources

Controlling White Space with Classes

Aside: Vertical whitespace can produce a feeling of "openness" in web pages and other media. But sometimes it unnecessarily reduces the amount of data that can be seen at once, and increases the need for users to do vertical scrolling. So I've been known to push back a bit - especially when whitespace is provided by <br> tags rather than style rules. To that end:

1. This mod uses styles to decrease the whitespace between the HTML tables that define various sections of the Person Profile (basic personal data, parents, families, the event map, media items, etc.). This mod provides 1ex of whitespace in the bottom margin of each table. You can increase that whitespace with a style rule such as .datatable {margin-bottom:1em;} at the bottom of your genstyle.css or in your template's mytngstyle.css.
2. I have removed a hard break from the end of the TNG "innermenu" (explained below). Whitespace below the innermenu can be restored by a style rule such as .pub-innermenu {margin-bottom:1em;} at the bottom of your genstyle.css or your template's mytngstyle.css.
   • The "innermenu" is a horizontal menu on most TNG pages that appears immediately below the "Tab menu". It usually has white text on a dark background, and its links are almost always separated by vertical bars. In the Person Profile, the innermenu looks something like this:

     Personal Information  |  Media  |  Notes  |  Source Citations  |  Event Map  |  All  |  PDF  

   • This change affects not just the Person Profile, but most TNG page headings. However, the .pub-innermenu style rule shown above will restore whitespace to all affected pages.

Modifying Style Rules

When you want to modify the effect of a style rule defined in the master TNG stylesheet, css/genstyle.css, you should not edit the existing rule. This is especially true for style rules added by a mod, but is also true of "native" styles. If you edit a mod-defined rule, you will break the mod's installed status, and, in either case, your change will likely be lost with any TNG upgrades. Instead, as indicated by the instructions above, you should define a new style rule for the same style class, focus on the style attribute you want to change, and place your new rule

• At the very bottom of genstyle.css, or
• In the stylesheet file mytngstyle.css in your template's css folder (which is empty in fresh TNG installations).

Note that your template's mytngstyle.css folder may be the safer of these two options, since it is easier to backup the entire mytngstyle.css file than to backup a set of rules inside genstyle.css. But, of course, if you use more than one template, the style rules that you put in a template's mytngstyle.css will need to be duplicated in the all of the other templates you use.

Formatting Person and Family IDs

In order to distinguish the leading "I" of a person ID from a "1" or a lower-case "l", this mod displays PersonIDs and FamilyIDs with style classes that change the font of the ID's.

Revision History

Mod Version	TNG Version	Date	Note
12.0.0.17	12.0+	24 Jul 2018	Fixed a typo that was preventing the marriage block displaying the words "Wife" or "Husband".
12.0.0.16p	12.0+	24 Jul 2018	No functional changes; made compatible with TNGv12.
11.0.0.16p	11.0-11.1.2+	28 Mar 2016	No functional changes. Removed the second line of the cust_text.php target location search strings.
11.0.0.16a	11.0-11.1	28 Mar 2016	Updated for TNGv11. Added Race to the set of events that I have moved from the Other Personal Events table to the main personal events table.
10.0.1.15a	10.0.1-10.1.3	10 Mar 2016	Fixed an old bug in location 33 that erased the event map if any notes were attached to the person rather than to an event.
10.0.1.15	10.0.1-10.1.3	20 Feb 2016	- Moves some Source Citations functionality to [[Regroup Person-Sources] to establish compatibility with Citation Master. - Implemented Show Mod Names functionality. - Fixed a bug that disabled the scrolling of citations. - Eliminated a TNGv10.1 database function call in one target location.
10.0.1.14f	10.0.1-10.1.2	19 Jul 2015	- Followed more of Jeannette Wickham's suggestion and added name facts and events to the primary personal data block, instead of "Other Personal Data". - Fixed two old bugs in my code that put some notes in narrow columns. - Fixed another old bug that caused some event source citation links not to be enclosed in brackets. - Added Norwegian translation of cust_text strings, courtesy of Ørjan K. Albriktsen. - Moved code to accommodate the Public Access Control mod.
10.0.1.14	10.0.1-10.1.1	08 Jul 2015	Folded Regroup Person-Other IDs back into this mod. Followed Jeanette Wickham's suggestion to put cause of death plus secondary birth, death, and burial events in the data block at the top of the page instead of in the "Other Personal Data" block. Now works with Default Photo Preview. Improved code comments. Reintroduced some of the whitespace that I had eliminated by removing <br/> tags.
10.0.1.13	10.0.1-10.1	03 Jan 2015	Had to restore some trailing spaces to some lines of code, because I had mistakenly tested the mod with a beta version of Mod Manager that was deleting trailing spaces.
10.0.1.12	10.0.1-10.0.3	27 Dec 2014	Moved some functionality from this mod to five new mods whose names also begin with "Regroup Person".
10.0.1.11	10.0.1-10.0.3	10Aug2014	Modified the way Person and Family ID's are displayed, and added the capability of displaying Person ID's for parents and children.
10.0.1.10	10.0.1-10.0.2	23 Jun 2014	Fixed a bug that broke hyperlinks to husband or wife if the string "Family" is in the tree ID.
10.0.1.9	10.0.1-10.0.2	1 3May 2014	Now handles sub-event data entered in TNG, like Agency, Cause, Address, etc.
10.0.1.8	10.0.1-10.0.2	12May2014	Changed a hard break to a div to work better with Relationship Display Mod, and moved the changes in cust_text from the top of the file (where, I've learned, some people don't have the distribution comments) to the bottom of the file.
10.0.1.7	10.0.1-10.0.2	30Apr2014	Fixed to work with TNG v10.0.2 as well as v10.0.1
10.0.1.6	10.0.1	26Apr2014	Used classes more effectively and eliminated some side effects that could show up in other TNG modules.
10.0.1.4	10.0.1	21 Apr 2014	Accommodated the installation of Geocode Assist Mod and Wiki Integration. Displays the "I" in the Person ID in a font that distinguishes it from "l" and "1".
10.0.1.3	10.0.1	17 Apr 2014	Removed a couple of changes and changed a couple of others to improve compatibility with other mods - specifically Family Preview Mod and mods that tweak the Event Map Pins legend.
10.0.1.2	10.0.1	16 Apr 2014	Fixed bugs that (1)repeated marriage information for people with multiple marriages & (2) didn't always display the person id number and edit date. Also accommodated another mod.
10.0.1.0	10.0.1	15 Apr 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	12.0.0.17	12.0.3	English
Turner mob family Genealogy	Margaret Turner	Public site	10.0.1.14d	10.1.1	EN
Stamboom Jongman	Roel Jongman	Public/Private site	10.1.0.15a	10.1.3	NL, DE, EN