I am often confronted with the problem of searching for a particular person or surname in a long list of Project Profiles. I am not referring to project members and followers, but to the list of project profiles which opens on another page. Sometimes there can be thousands of profiles attached to a project and the prospect of scrolling through hundreds of pages, one by one, is not at all comforting. I don't think there is a search function on the project profiles page. Could you add a search function from within project profile pages? Thanks.
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Job Waterreus As a work-around you might be able to download the project profiles with SmartCopy (see https://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783) and search the download. But a search function would be nice.
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Jim Henderson While we wait for a versatile advanced-search feature from Geni, could you try to use the browser's search function, which will let you search the content of a particular page.
This is usually Ctrl-F (or command-F on a Mac).
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Job Waterreus Searching with Ctrl-F is a bit unpractical when then are hundreds or even thousands of pages with profiles. Besides it is impossible to search on a combination of fields that way.
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Job Waterreus You might be able to find some of the (public) profiles using Google by searching on profile field values in combination with the project name.
You can limit the search to Geni by adding site:geni.com to your search when using Google
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Tim Stamps It’s a year and a half later and I am having this same issue.
I was wanting to add a project to a profile, but the profile does not have the option. Then I wanted to search the project to see if the profile is already listed, but there is no search function. It would be helpful if all the added profiles could be organized alphabetically. This could be accomplished if the profiles were put into a column, such as the way Wikipedia does it, rather than like it is now, which only splits off several into new pages according to when the project was added. -
Geni Support Team Hi Tim, a profile must be public in order to add it to a project. This may be why you do not see the option to add it.
Also, you can see all the projects a profile has been added to on the profile page under "Recent Projects":
Profiles in a project can be sorted alphabetically:
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Job Waterreus Displaying project profiles does not work when the project has a large number of profiles. The screen will timeout.
Even when it should work it is still hard (takes much time) to find a profile when there are many pages with profiles.
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