Profiles

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On this tab profiles with certain Gedcom Options can be saved and loaded. A profile saves all options selected on the other tabs. Arbitrary many profiles can be saved under names of their own and loaded again later. Profiles saved by the user can also be renamed and deleted.

If you have adjusted import options suitable for a Gedcom file, which was exported of another program, save these adjustments as a profile with a name of its own. Later, you can load this profile again very simply: Select the profile in the list and click on the button Load Profile or double-click on the profile in the list. Perform analogously if you want to export a Gedcom file with the FamilyTreeFactory, which shall be imported by another genealogy program: If you have found suitable export options, save these as a profile with a name of its own.

With the buttons Export Profile... and Import Profile... you can save profiles outside the program in arbitrary directories and under arbitrary file names *.gdo as Gedcom options files and load again later. This possibility can be used for example to exchange profiles with other users. Importing a profile does not change the Gedcom Options adjusted currently; if you want to adjust an imported profile at once, too, you must click on the button Load Profile in addition after the import.

Tip: You can also drag one or several Gedcom options files *.gdo from the Windows Explorer with the mouse into the list of available profiles. These Gedcom options files are then saved as profiles and added to the list.

The profile [ Factory Default Settings ] is firmly predefined of the program. This profile can be neither renamed nor deleted. It serves only the restoration of the factory default settings.

Note 1: The functions Save Profile, Rename Profile, Delete Profile, Export Profile und Import Profile are immediately executed and can't be undone with the button Cancel. The function Load Profile only causes the display of the settings of the profile on the other tabs; whether these settings get effective depends on the usage of the buttons OK or Cancel.

Note 2: Independent from the usage of a profile, the recently used Gedcom Options are saved in the initialization file FamilyTreeFactory.ini and loaded at the next program start again. If an user wants always to work with the same Gedcom Options, the usage of profiles is not required.