Having Web Cards on Dropbox

[normantr6]

Dear users,

I am a long time user of Reunion and love its many features. I also have used Reunion Touch for quite a while. What makes that so valuable is that I get instant updated information now matter what device I am using. This saves me lots of time. I am wondering whether others would value the same approach for Webcards that sit on a hosting site for webpages that display our records. I use Web Cards as you can see in the attached link. I have a website that links directly to my hosting site containing the web cards. I upload my entire database from Reunion in Web Card format to the hosting site and it creates all the pages I need for showing the Tree in html format. I would just like to have those web cards updated on the hosting site, each time I make changes to my Reunion file on my Mac, just like Reunion Touch does. Maybe there is some way the Reunion developers could use some synching function via dropbox to link my Mac's Reunion file to the hosting site web cards??? I just don't want to have to go through loading the entire data set all the time.

Any ideas would be welcome.

[Miss Myrtle]

I think that would be a wonderful idea.Your site is really nice and I think I like the web card view more than a typical tree, I didn't realize Reunion could do that.

[theKiwi]

This seems like something that an FTP software can do - like CyberDuck.

Generate the new set of web cards on your Mac, and then upload it to your hosting site, and with the right choice made in the OverWrite dialogue, only the new changed files would be uploaded.

I don't see any way that a Hosting site could take a Reunion file, and turn it into Webcards entirely on the hosting site's system.

I have used TNG The Next Generation of Genealogy Site Building for more than 20 years.

It can import a GEDCOM file and then gives lots of different displays.

Take a look at my great great grandfather's page here http://lisaandroger.com/genealogy/ge...I16&tree=Roger

Everything on that page is transferred by GEDCOM file from Reunion to TNG - images, map locations, data, custom fields I use in Reunion etc.

Roger

[DrJJWMac]

What you suggest is interesting. Rather than having to export an entire database, only export changes made on or within a specific date range, whether the export format is Web cards or GEDCOM. Consider positing this as a feature request.

[Matthew Wyneken]

What you suggest is interesting. Rather than having to export an entire database, only export changes made on or within a specific date range, whether the export format is Web cards or GEDCOM. Consider positing this as a feature request.

As Roger hinted at, if you activate the right option with CyberDuck, it automatically uploads only those files to the website that differ from what’s already there. There’s really no reason to request a change in Reunion when the uploading tool can perform the functionality you’re looking for.

[Matthew Wyneken]

Here us a link to documentation how to synchronize a local folder with a folder on the website server hosting the website:

https://docs.cyberduck.io/cyberduck/sync/

The technique may be kind of geeky, but synchronizing the two folders is what we’ve been talking about here.

[DrJJWMac]

... The technique may be kind of geeky, but synchronizing the two folders is what we’ve been talking about here.

push back here: While you may be inclined to make this synchronization routine a standard for you (even if the proposed request is implement), those who are not so geek-inclined could indeed benefit by having a switch in Reunion that exports Web cards (and also GEDCOM) for only those changes made after a specific date. Or, as might otherwise be respectfully said, there's not "really NO reason to request a change ...". Simply because you can suggest an alternate method, let alone that the method requires a third party tool, let alone that the method is rather geeky, does not negate the request.

Summary: normantr6 makes a reasonable request. The request is not about controlling the synchronization of two folders, but about exporting only a subset of the full content in Reunion based on selecting by date of most recent changes. I'd prefer that Reunion support suggest whether such a change is or is not within their good graces to implement.

ps -- I use Cyberduck routinely. It is powerful and flexible. It certainly can do the demand to control synchronization. It is also not a tool that I would hand over to someone with the (blissful) advice ... just read this handout and you will be able to do everything you want.

[Matthew Wyneken]

push back here: …

OK, fair enough.

[Blaise A. Darveaux]

Years ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Leister made a small app called Reunion Web Tool. It would compare an old folder of web cards to a newer folder of web cards. It would identify: 1) the cards that had changed data, 2) the new cards, and 3) the cards that were no longer needed. You then manually swapped out, added, or deleted, respectively, the web cards from the server. This made it relatively easy to do smallish updates of one's web project. I used it many times and it worked well. I don't think it has been updated over the years for newer machines or newer Reunion.