Five new modules for report generation in webtrees

Released: April 2025

Description

Five new report definitions:

1. descendents-overview that can be used to generate a simple chart of the descendants to one person, with years of birth, marriage/ partnership, divorce/separation, and death (if the years are known and the events have happened).
2. family-tree that generates pedigree charts for a selected person. Up to eight generations including the start person can be shown depending on the paper size chosen. 8 generations can be viewed on A2 paper in landscape mode.
3. family-history will generate a report in a narrative style for the selected person and either the closest family, the descendants or the ancestors. Notes and primary photos can optionally be included.
4. family-individuals generates a report for the same selection of persons as family-history but all facts and events are presented in a table for each person.
5. missing_tags generates a report of all persons who don't have birth, marriage or death records, selectable what to report.

Requirements

I was optimistic about the compatibility between the app/Report module of the different versions of webtrees. Therefore there are now more versions!

This module requires some changes to the app/Report AND resources/xml/reports parts of webtrees and they can be downloaded here:

1. new-reports.zip v1.0.1 for webtrees versions 2.1.17-18

2. new-reports.zip v3 for webtrees version 2.1.20-22

3. new-reports.zip v10 for webtrees version 2.2.1-

In version v7 treament of non-UTF-8 strings is corrected. In version v8 the relationship indicator (fmf...) can be hidden and some security issues are handled.

Version v9 includes enhancements and correction from issues 24-34.

Version v10 includes a possibility to print nicknames (if given) in the reports family-history and descendants-overview. Note that nicknames are normally not shown in the user interface unless other modules are added to support it. See issue 29 for a discussion about nicknames.

Other versions may be added when new versions of webtrees are released.

Installation

Get the modules by tapping the 'Code' button and then 'Download zip'. Unzip the archive and copy the files to their corresponding place in your webtrees installation. The new-reports.zip must also be installed in the same way. The latter archive includes new versions of many xml report definitions that give clickable links in reports formatted for html.

The list of report modules is now very long and I recommend disabling some. In the control panel one can select Modules --> Reports and uncheck some reports. Ancestors is replaced by Family tree, Ancestors and Descendents are replaced by Family history, Related families and related individuals are replaced by Family individuals. Some other reports may also be unused and can be disabled.

Hopefully, a later version of webtrees will include these changes to support the new xml report features.

Use the Code->download link to get a zip archive. Unzip the files and upload the modules to the webtrees /modules_v4/ folder on your web server. N.B. The corresponding new-reports.zip archive must also be installed!