My experience so far is that the Web Page Creation feature within v8 is nearly identical to v7.5 with the exception of options to handle shared events and shared event pictures (in the EVENT OPTIONS button on the WHAT tab). And so far, I have no problem with Legacy including pictures attached to either sources or events. In other words, it’s working fine on my end. Make sure you look at the SOURCES tab and check the “Include Master Source Pictures” and “Include Detail Source Pictures”. Pictures of individuals can be included by checking the appropriate boxes on the OTHER tab. And it is this OTHER tab where you get to select the Ensure Unique Picture Names option which is strongly recommended. Legacy kindly copies all the media files to be used to the web pictures folder for the web project and gives them all web friendly names by replacing spaces with underscores.
My biggest gripe is that you can only include the one preferred picture from any event, source, or individual. So if you have pictures of your great-grandfather Tiberius when he was a baby, when he got married, when he was working at his occupation, and when he was elderly, then unfortunately only the one picture which you previously designated as preferred is included with the web. Those additional pictures would have to be added manually used a real HTML editor. Now the inability to include other types of multimedia files has been acknowledged for a long time. The coding necessary to have all the various browsers in use to be able to display or play PDFs, MP3s, MPEGs, MP4s, BMPs, TIFs, WAVs, DOCs, DOCXs, or who knows what else would be a programming nightmare. It has been discussed ad nauseam in previous forum messages that Legacy is a genealogical database program and not a full-fledged HTML editor. Brian in CA On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Don Quigley <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone been able to overcome Legacy’s inabilities to create > webpages with Source pictures (a program feature, but currently not working > in Legacy 8) and other multimedia files attached to Sources (not a feature > of the software)? I’d like to be able to share my sourced family files on > the internet, but am having trouble finding a way to do so. With thousands > of sources and their attached images, documents, etc., manually uploading > files one at a time to a webpage is not practical. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
