The can do and cannot with TP

Discussion in Technical Forum started by Thomas Gabried Edward (Tom) GOLDSCHMIDT, Oct 31, 2018
TG
Thomas Gabried Edward (Tom) GOLDSCHMIDT
We are very new to TP.

The first impressions are good, would appreciate any inputs from TP users and their experiences.

We see on this blog that TP is rather slow in addressing issues.

We have come from Reunion and are testing TP to see if it works for our world wide multi platform family.

Questions.

We are a family spread across the world.

Although we need to protect the core tree information, we see the need to allow multi access to the extended family who can then be responsible for their family side, entries.

Is this a multi platform cloud based system which will help to address a world wide family tree;

allowing controlled access and editing.

These are the core questions

Can we migrate Reunion data, there appears to be a loss in pix and text.

Has this been addressed?

How does the administration work.

Where and how is the data stored,

can we make our own back up?

It appears to be multi platform, any restrictions?

How many subscribers or family members can it support?

Is it designed for a very large and wide spread families

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Francisco Leovey
I would advise to use TP for smaller family users
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marie byatt
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It can handle what you are talking about as long as YOU are very organized.

First gedcoms - gedcoms are not designed to 'carry' pics and other media - if yours do, it is a special progamming feature from your manufacturer. It probably is using a standard gedcom area that is not used much to do this. Gedcoms will carry media links and some systems will let you load an entire media folder with links in the gedcom to that folder . Tribal Pages doesnot work this way so you will have to attach each photo individually.

Also , loading a new gedcom completely wipes out the previous gedcom. This is where the discipline comes in.

You can either keep your master file resident on your computer or you can keep it on TribalPages. I use a master resident on my computer and only allow my 'user group' to add details, photos and correct errors. I reserve all adding of people to myself.

Other keep the master online and let their users add to it. Then when they need to update their home file they download the backup from tribalpages and use it. But you really have to make the choice when you start up.

The biggest drawback for me is the limited number of sources that can be used and some custom events don't work well.

Having said all that - I love TP, It can handle enormous numbers of individuals and pictures. My users are scattered over 5 continents and they all like the photos and ease for editing. I can custom set their permissions and privacy and they work well.

I don't know what you mean be large . I know that TP can easily handle tens of thousands - I'm not sure about hundreds of thousands.

Hope this helps