I think it used to be set up that way but i apparently messed it up since i just found (after getting an email from cousin about stumbling upon her public profile, wasn't happy) that her, her mom and a many other of my living relations had public profiles, where as the hundreds of deceased relations i have put into the tree have private profiles so all my work seems for nothing.
I know i can open each profile and select public or not but with the 300+ people i have put in that will take me ages and with all the off shoots i am sure to loose track of one as i go. so is there a way to force these settings to your entire tree and only have other family members change these settings and or their own profile settings?
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Dan Cornett For profiles you manage, you can quickly change them (single click for each profile) by getting a list of the profiles you manage (advanced search, select "managed by") -- then, in that list, there is a single click (toggle) to change the profile from public to private or the reverse.
Not as nice as being able to do for "all my profiles", but far easier than opening each profile for editing individually.
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Pury Aclan i can't find a toggle or area to click on the profiles, please, need more info
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Pury Aclan i can't find a toggle or area to click on the profiles, please, need more info. I see only make profile public instead of the other way round
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Dan Cornett Hi, Pury.
If you only see "Make profile public", that means everyone on that list is currently set to be private. Those "words" (make profile public) *is* the clickable toggle.
Since it seems you are getting a list, you just need to customize the search a bit: change the group to "Managed By", then change the "living status" to (for instance) be "Deceased" and the "privacy status" to be "Private". Then click the blue "Update List" at the bottom (scroll down to find it). If that does NOT come back empty, those are the names you want to change -- which you should be able to do by a single click on each of them at the right side of the list.
Oh, and it's helpful to "save" that search criteria so you don't have to remember the exact settings each time. I have three I named that I check regularly: Living-Public, Private-Deceased (which is the one I described above), and a Private-Deceased-pre-1930 ... which adds the additional criteria of birth date before 1930 -- because I don't want to make, for example, recently died folks as public when it is likely that others in their family are still living.
Does that help?
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shelley Smith Thanks Dan, will try this out tomorrow when i have some time to kill. hope it works, sounds like it should :D
I figure i want to share the info about my family tree so others can use what i have already, but on the flip side dont want to upset living family members when they are able to find themself on my free by google-ing their name and then yelling at me for simply being clueless on this site.
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