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== Example 1: a descendant chart ==
Download [http://gramps.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/gramps/trunk/gramps2/example/gramps/example.gramps?revision=7186 example.gramps], create a new database in GRAMPS called example.grdb, and import the example.gramps data into it.
If not the case, set the home active person to Garner, Lewis Anderson To make a descendant chart with the relationship report, choose the menu item "Reports -> Graphical reports -> Realtionship graph" In the dialog, set the format to .png and chose the following in the tabs available:Paper Options -> Size : Custom Size (Set width and height to 10000 cm, or some other large value)Report Options -> Filter: Ancestors of Garner, Lewis Andersson layout optons -> Aspect ratio: minimal size (I sometimes experience problems setting the sizes in the Paper options dialog. A workaround is to use the example using graphviz code in example 3 below.) For me (using gramps 2.2.7 on windows XP), the result was descendants.png, to be uploaded here soon. Use http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Make_flash_plugin_from_a_png to make the resulting graph easier to navigate. == Example 1b: a chart with ancestors == Download and open the example.gramps file as in Example 1Set Warner, Carl Thomas to be the active person. Repeat the process in example 1, but choose the filter "Ancestors of Warner, Carl Thomas" this time. == Example 2: A chart with ancestors, descendants and their families == Note: This example uses filters. See [http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Example_filters] for en introductory example. Open the file example.gramps and select Cristiansen, Frances as the active person. First we create a helper filter:Open the filter editor and create a new filter, called Frances1. The filter should contain the rules * "Ancestors of <person>" choose Christiansen, Frances and check "inclusive".* "Descendants of <person>" chose Christiansen, Frances Make sure that "At least one rule must be fulfilled" is chosen, so that we get both ancestors and descendants. Now we create the filter we want for the report: Create a new filter, called Frances2. This filter should contain the rules * "People matching the filter", choose Frances1* "Parents of filter" Frances1* "Siblings of filter" Frances1* "Spouses of filter" Frances1 Now close the filter editor, and follow the instruction sin examples 1a and 1b, but this time choosing the filter "Frances2" in the Report Options tab. My result is the file: ancestorsAndDescendants.png == Example 3, Generating the graph by using the Graphviz command line tool == I use this only as a way to work around problems like setting the paper size. In the menu, select "Reports -> Code Generators -> Relationship graph"Choose the filter you want to use, and set also as many of the other options as possible to the desired values (as explained in example 1), but the format should be "Graphviz (dot)". Click Ok. You should now have a file of type ".dot".This file is a text file, so it can be opened in any text-editor. For paper size, look around line 36-37 for two lines that define the "page" (paper size) and "size" (area of paper to use), and change these to some large values. Save the modified file under the name report.dot, and run the commad "dot -Ppng -oreport.png report.dot". This should use the graphviz "dot" tool to generate the .png file containing the report.
== Further cool things to do ==
* You can make descendant charts and add them to the media gallery of the person. Like that, the cart is available from the website.
* offer a chart on your website as a [[Make flash plugin from a png |flash relationship graph]], enabling zooming, moving, ... over your data or just use SVG for Firefox and Opera, see [http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=UnsupportedPlugins#DenominoViso_-_HTML_Ancestors_page DenominoViso]
