Standard Diagram (current project)

A standard diagram is a type of diagram through which you create (and/or work on) a project database. A standard diagram is created through the adding of individuals (or other kind of entities such as social events or kin terms) and of relations between them.

First of all, you may want to create a project. To do so:

  1. File menu > New Project > choose a directory and a name for your project > Save > a dialog window will appear: Creating database for project 'name of the project'. Now on top of the page you will see the name of your project.

  2. If you already have a project saved on your machine: File menu > Open Project > choose the project (if you click on the project some information related to it will come out: Project Title, Project Description, etc.) > Open.

  3. You may also want to re-open a recently closed project. To do so:

To create a standard diagram from scratch:

  1. File menu > New Diagram of Type > Standard Diagram (current project); a new page of the application will open.

  2. Right click on the main white panel > Add > choose an item among the ones displayed (Individual, Chromosome_Example, Clan_Example, KinTerm, Social_Event), or among the ones listed in the profiles settings (Panels menu > Diagram Settings > Entity Profiles).

    In addition, you can use the right click menu option Add Geometry, and choose among the items provided:

    According to what you have chosen, a new entity will appear. Its icon shape depends on how this has been preconfigured in the profile settings. To modify profile settings: Diagram Options menu > Settings > Symbol Fields tab.


    Tip. If your diagram is going to have a big amount of entities, instead of creating all of them one by one: create some > select them (left click and drag or hold down the Ctrl or Shift keys) > right click > Duplicate Selected Entities.

    By comparison, you can use the option Merge Selected Entities when, for example, you have two separate entities carrying different pieces of information, and you find them to be the same individual. Therefore, you want to make them merge into a single entity. What results from the merger is a single entity carrying the data of both entities which have been merged .

  3. Select the entity you have created. At the bottom of the page you will see a table with some information to fill in: name, gender, date of birth, date of death, etc.

    Once you have entered the required information, either click on the entity or select Save all data changes from the right click menu. The entity should now show such infomation.


    As far as kinship data are concerned, you can:

  4. Once that several, single entities have been created, you may also want to create relations between them. To do so:

    When you create an egocentric diagram, you may want to set one of the entities present on it as its "starting point". To do so:

    Select the entity you want to set as ego > right click > choose Set as Ego (list will be cleared). That entity will go black.

    The text into brackets (list will be cleared) means that a diagram can only have one ego. The moment you try to set a second ego on the same diagram, the other one will return a normal entity again. One excludes the other.

    However, if you have several diagrams, you can set several egos: select the entity > right click > Add to ego list.

    By contrast, if you want your ego to turn back to a normal entity: select the entity > right click > Remove from ego list.

    To remove relations between entities:

    To delete/remove entities:

    Relations between entities can be personalized through a series of graphical options. To customize such relations:



  5. To link some archive data to your kinship data (the main function of KinOath Kinship Archiver):

  6. To save the diagram you have created:

    File menu > Save as (name of the diagram) > choose a directory and a file name.

    Besides the normal saving process, you have other options you can choose from in File menu:

  7. To close:

To work on already existing database:

  1. First of all, you have to import data. To do so:

  2. Now open the Search Entities tab on the left of the page and enter the name of the entity you want to search for. Press Enter, or click on Search. All the entities somehow related to your search will be listed in the same tab.

    Entities can also be searched with fuzzy matching, so that possible spelling mistakes will not interfere with the search.

  3. The results can also be expanded through kin type strings. To do so: