when you invite a person to geni on your tree, what editing rights do they have? I want to ensure that no one can really edit the 'master' tree outside their own immediate piece of the pie. Thanks :) I am happy to share the tree with people and also for them to add to it, but am worried about blanket edits as I have created the whole tree.
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Jeff, Geni Curator This should help: http://www.geni.com/company/privacy
For your private profiles, the edit ability should be defined by your family group. http://www.geni.com/account_settings/family/
For your public profiles, the edit ability should be extended to your collaborators.
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Jeff, Geni Curator Also, if you have an invite that is behaving badly, you can block them from editing your profiles: http://www.geni.com/account_settings/blocked_users
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Raahim Don Thank you kindly for the reply Jeff, much appreciated. I did actually manage to review the link that you sent before hand. This link: http://www.geni.com/account_settings/family/ certainly allows me to share news, photo albums, and birthdays etc, but I still don know "what can my invitees atually edit?". Is it only their trees, all parts of the whole tree etc? The issue I am trying to solve is to make sure outside their own additions/tree they can't really change anything else. It has taken me a long time to build the tree, I don't want anyone to mess it up :)
For example can all invitees automatically edit all my private profiles ( asa default setting)? Can I change it? Thank YOu so much
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Jeff, Geni Curator That depends on how close the invitee is to your private profiles. If it's your cousin, then yes, they'll be able to edit them. That's the point of a collaborative tree. :) The only restriction you can place on that is children under 13, where you can limit it to just you. http://www.geni.com/account_settings/managed_profiles It is rare that a family member would mess up your tree. If family members add anything, they tend to expand and add more information to your tree, not change things (unless your information is wrong). At some point, the idea is to merge into the world tree and collaborate, reducing research duplication, sourcing, etc. You should be able to see all the changes made to profiles you follow, so if someone is making changes you don't agree with, you can look at the revision history and restore the original data. For some, the collaborative tree model is not what they're looking for - if that's your case, we recommend MyHeritage.
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