Features on wt-modules

German webtrees manual (WTHB)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

A context sensitive help link to the German webtrees manual can be added to the small navigation menu. Context links are also available for components on pages provided by custom extensions (e.g. on the individuals page, the start page or items in the main menu) — these can be identified by the i symbols in a circle.

To ensure that this function is also available in the admin backend, a modified version of views/layouts/administration.phtml must be registered. This module attempts to use the custom module vesta_common (if installed and enabled) or its own version of the view layout file. Alternatively, patch P002 could also be applied to the core code.

Home Link

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The site title can be a link to the tree homepage or the user my page. The webmaster can also set a user-defined URL.

Dynamic CSS styles can be applied to match the current theme, ensuring that the display contrasts well. Of course it is not limited to the home link use case - for details see Admin settings.

UID Lookup

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

A UID (_UID in GEDCOM 5.5.1, UID in GEDCOM 7.0) is a persistent identifier assigned to a record. The UID survives XREF renumbering and tree migrations, making it a stable reference point.

This feature allows navigating directly to a record by its UID. The URL pattern is:

/tree/{tree}/goto-uid/{uid} — scoped to one tree
/goto-uid/{uid} — global (searches all trees)

Behavior:

0 hits → 404
1 visible hit → redirect to the record
>1 visible hit → selection list (case-variant UIDs or the same UID in multiple records)

UID comparison is case-insensitive (GEDCOM specs do not define UID as case-sensitive). The stored value is verbatim; matching is done case-insensitively so that case-variant UIDs return a selection list rather than a possibly-wrong single redirect.

Patches

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The patches can be applied additionally — the module also works without them!

The util subfolder contains minor patches for the webtrees core. These are diff-files that can be easily applied or removed using shell from within the installed module folder (necessary for auto-detecting webtrees sources):

Usage: util/wt-patch.sh [-R] [FILTER]
 -R undo Patch (patch -R)
 FILTER '*' for all or specific (e.g. '01')

Don’t forget to reapply the patches after updating webtrees.

These are minor bug fixes or functional enhancements — usually in a single file — that are intended to bridge the gap until they are officially fixed/implemented in the webtrees core.