Deceased Icon In Family Trees
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What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
A Deceased marker (tombstone) signifying a Family Tree member is not alive.When looking at a Family Tree, there is no way of knowing if whether someone is alive or dead unless both birth and death dates are entered in their sheet.
Worse, there is no context to the calendar years underneath their image/name in the Family Tree if there is only such date (birth/death). If, for example, only the year of their DEATH |or| BIRTH is put into their article there is no indication what that single year entry means.
In writing or databases, if someone's death in year 99 was the only entry it might read (?-99) or (x-99). But in World Anvil, whether it's birth or death, it just reads (99).
There are many reasons why a birth or death date is not known. But if one of them IS known, it causes even more confusion.
How does this feature request address the current situation?
A simple change to the member tiles in the Family Tree would allow a viewer to instantly know whether someone is alive or dead. There are two possible solutions...
Marker
A simple marker (tombstone) would clear it up with a glance. Such a marker could be similar to the non-blood related marker for spouses.
Change To Birth/Death Displays
Autopopulating an empty birth/death field with a (?) would also do it. Typical format would be as follows for a person who died in 99 but no birth year was listed.
(?-99)
What are other uses for this feature request?
A likely addition that would also help would be a shield/crown marker for the current lord/monarch in a family. I guess this would provide the ground work for that change down the road. At the moment, the title in the name is sufficient for such purposes.
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by BasicDragon
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by Kameron M. Sovka
on 2022-02-14 04:05Since we can see "not blood-related" as an icon, I think "deceased" also works as an icon.
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by Hanhula
on 2022-02-14 00:36Extremely useful. Would also be helpful to have a css class on those marked deceased so we can add some custom stuff in there.
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by Jacob-W
on 2022-02-04 07:18The tombstone icon is already in use in the sidebar data, so that would fit nicely!
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by FireAtWill
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by UnknownWriter88
on 2022-02-03 12:29Presently, this is already seen by the shown birthyear and deathyear that is displayed under the character's name. But some more would help.
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by imly2k
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by DMFW
on 2022-02-01 13:52This icon would be a nice enhancement. I also like the suggestion about desaturating the dead individuals portraits as a possible alternative but that could be too much processing. The issue with birth/death date displays seems like the most important one raised though, so if we could only have one thing, that wold be the one I'd want.
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by FenDawnchild
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by Arlatius
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by LisaGrimm
on 2022-02-01 13:03I absolutely support this! I love creating family trees, it's a vital part of my process, and that feature is something I'm sorely missing.
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by Artofeliza
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by JetpackMonkey
on 2022-02-01 12:23It would be fantastic to see at a glance which characters were dead in family trees - the tombstone marker idea is excellent and sounds like it shouldn't be too difficult to implement. If it were possible to go fancier, I was thinking maybe having the option to greyscale or sepia-tone the pictures in the family tree of dead characters would make deceased characters visually distinct, while still allowing the official portrait on their character page to be in full colour.
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by ss2020
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by Racussa
on 2022-02-01 06:43Sounds very interesting, a bit in the style of Crusader Kings III. As I have many family trees, I'd like this feature a lot (also the head of family sign).
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