Multiple marriages with children - Genogram

GoJS
1

Hi,

I’m currently trying to add children to a genogram that contains multiple marriages, and I’m seeing some rendering issues. When using the following dataset, I get the output below :

   var familyData = [
     { key: 0, n: "Wife 1", s: "F", vir: [1] }
     ,{ key: 1, n: "Husband 1", s: "M", ux: [0] }
     ,{ key: 2, n: "Child 1", s: "F", m: 0, f: 1 }
     ,{ key: 3, n: "Child 2", s: "F", m: 1, f: 0 }
     ,{ key: 4, n: "Husband 2", s: "M", ux: [0] }
    ];

As you can see, the spouses are not aligned horizontally

If I remove the children from the data set, the spouses remain inline.

Ideally, I need the output to be like the following, so that any children always come underneath their parents:

Would you be able to point me in the right direction in regards to achieving this please?

Thanks,

Rob

2

Hmmm. That is odd. The LayeredDigraphLayout does not force all husbands and wives to be in the same layer, so I suppose this could happen. The results for

     { key: 0, n: "Wife 1", s: "F", vir: [4,1] }
     , { key: 1, n: "Husband 1", s: "M" }
     , { key: 2, n: "Child 1", s: "F", m: 0, f: 1 }
     , { key: 3, n: "Child 2", s: "F", m: 0, f: 1 }
     , { key: 4, n: "Husband 2", s: "M" }
     , { key: 5, n: "Child 21", s: "M", m: 0, f: 4 }
     //, { key: 6, n: "Child 22", s: "F", m: 0, f: 4 }

are better. But swapping the order of the husbands for the wife produces not-so-perfect results.

We’ll look into improving the GenogramLayout.

3

I’m with the same issue:

Can you guide us on how should the GenogramLayout be changed?

Thanks!

4

When I get some free time, I’ll work on improving the layer assignment of spouses.

5

Hi @walter ,

would you please give us some hints on how we should start changing the GenogramLayout to get the desired result pointed by Rob?

Thank you!

6

I did work on that for a while. I decided that the best strategy to handle multiple marriages would be to implement a completely new GenogramLayout. But I’ve been busy with getting version 1.6 ready, so I haven’t had the time to work on this.

7

Hi @walter have you had a chance to update the GenogramLayout to support multiple marriages? Thank you.

8

No, I’m sorry, it’s been so busy here that I haven’t had time to do anything that requires such a big block of time. We’ll consider it for version 1.7.