Happy New Year everyone.

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I have just discovered that Legacy can compile my database into html ready to put up onto the web. Sweet!

But the result does not look quite the way I would like. So with a bit of diligent study via Google into the vagaries of html coding a managed to get what I was wanting.

In a nutshell I wanted to place a “For more information click HERE” on various people’s pages that would provide a link to more detailed discussions rather than clogging up the page with reams of data. So I edited the appropriate html file directly.

But then I found some missing information and entered it into Legacy. Then I re-ran the html compiler and shock, horror ALL of my careful modifications were wiped out.

So here is the question. How can I incorporate additional html code so that it make changes as above but not be wiped out by a data update and re-compile?

Comments

  1. JL BeekenJanuary 1, 2016 at 11:30 PM

    Since all of those HTML generated pages are coming straight out of Legacy, I think you're going to have to work within Legacy's options if you want your custom code to show each time you update. There's a space for notes at the beginning under Project/Introduction. And then there's space for custom HTML under the Links tab.

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  2. Bob ThompsonJanuary 6, 2016 at 2:07 PM

    Thank for your reply JL Beeken , its not ideal but so be it. Maybe a future release will give the ability to do what I was looking for.

    In the meantime I have a work around.

    I have one customised file and that is “index.html” kept in a separate folder.

    In a particular person’s general notes field I put a comment like “For the full story on Fred Nerk see the link “Fred’ Story” in the Table of Contents page.

    I then add the appropriate html code to the custom index (above).
    When an update to the whole thing has been generated by Legacy I copy my custom “index.html” into the folder for my just generated family history replacing the Legacy generated index file.

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  3. JL BeekenJanuary 6, 2016 at 2:16 PM

    Bob Thompson If you're going to be that specific about it then yeah, I think that's your option. Legacy is only giving the option for a single customized header and footer.

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