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Question Showing living families in the recent changes

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3 years 10 months ago #1 by clivejo
Why is webstrees showing families with living people in the recent changes?

I had configured it to hide all data about living people.

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3 years 10 months ago #2 by fisharebest
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On the demo server, I made an edit on a family with living people.

I also added the "Recent changes" block to the home page.

When I am logged in, I see the change.
When I log out, it shows "There have been no changes in the last 7 days".

I looked at the code, and there is nothing suspcious.

The data for the block is filtered through the usual "canShow()" function which handles all the privicy.

I suspect the issue may be to do with your settings/configuration.

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3 years 10 months ago #3 by clivejo
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It is only showing the family and clicking on it says I don't have the permission to view it. But it is leaking names which I don't want!

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3 years 10 months ago #4 by fisharebest
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> But it is leaking names which I don't want!

Have you set the "show private names" option in the privacy settings?

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3 years 10 months ago #5 by clivejo
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fisharebest wrote: >Have you set the "show private names" option in the privacy settings?


Yes, it is set to show to members

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3 years 10 months ago - 3 years 10 months ago #6 by clivejo
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The only way I can get it to stop showing them is to add them as specific individuals in Privacy restrictions.

It is very weird, the family are three siblings, two of which family details are displayed the other one is being blocked.
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3 years 10 months ago #7 by clivejo
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It is leaking too much private data that I've had to remove the Recent Changes block from the Home Page.

How can I debug this to find out why it is displaying these names?

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3 years 10 months ago #8 by fisharebest
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> How can I debug this to find out why it is displaying these names?

Does it affect all record types, or just family records?
Does it affect all families, or just some?
Any other pattern?

If I can't reproduce it, I can't fix it.
But if you can find a pattern, that might give some clues.

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3 years 10 months ago #9 by clivejo
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It seems to be families ie John Doe + Susan Smith

Also appears to affect families were the individuals have no facts. For example, I noticed this because I added a death record for the mother and in the obituary it mentioned some of the children's partners, so I added the partners names as husbands/wifes. These families now display in my recent changes. I don't have information on their births, but I know they are living. One of the siblings who I added an occupation fact to, doesn't display, even though I added their partner the same way. Doesn't seem to make sense.

Is there any way to customise the recent changes to omit families, media etc?

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3 years 10 months ago #10 by kiwi

clivejo wrote: .... I don't have information on their births, but I know they are living.


This is not a bug, and excluding all families from the block is not the right answer.

You may know they are living, but based on the information available to the software it has estimated they are probably deceased. Therefore they can be displayed to the public. The system has to make the calculation based on whatever data it has, for every individual where you do not have birth and / or death data. This is also extremely inefficient. You need to add data, even if it is only estimated (EST date), that confirms their status. If, as you say, you "know" they are living, than add data that indicates that to the software. Or, as Greg suggested, "add them as specific individuals in Privacy restrictions"

Without the basic birth/marriage/death data for any individual, the "isDead?" calculation will always be a "system best guess", and therefore prone to this type of discrepancy. The algorithm used is good, but never perfect.

If they were mentioned in an obituary, then the least you "know" is that their birth date was "BEF date of obituary". That would be an example of a possible solution. Not ideal, but if it's all you have......

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3 years 10 months ago #11 by fisharebest
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The code looks for dates that would confirm that the individual is dead.
If it cannot find any, then the individual is assumed to be living.

So, an individual with no facts will always be living...

Can you reproduce the problem somewhere that we can see it. For example, create a test tree on your site, and then give me access to that?

Could you have mis-typed a date somewhere? For example entering 10 JUN 198 instead of 10 JUN 1998?

I cannot reproduce your problem, and the code that generates this list is pretty simple (i.e. few places for bugs to hide). So, my gut feeling is that it is being triggered by the specific data on your site.
If it is a bug, then I'm keen to find and fix it. Privacy/security issues take a high-priority.

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3 years 10 months ago #12 by clivejo
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fisharebest wrote: The code looks for dates that would confirm that the individual is dead.
If it cannot find any, then the individual is assumed to be living.


Yes, in previous versions of webtrees I've had to make sure I added a death fact in order for the record to be displayed to visitors. The individuals themselves are being hidden, but for some reason the family is not.

Going back through the recent changes as a visitor I noticed it is doing this for many families and is why I decided to remove the block entirely.

The only common factor I've noticed is that it is happening to female children, were I have added a husband with very little data. In most cases, it is just a first name learned from an obituary.

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3 years 10 months ago #13 by rverrips
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I'm not sure if this is related, but after upgrading to ver 2.0.4 my "Changes in the last 90 days" block links no longer function as they did before

When I look in the changelog via the Admin Gedcom viewer all the data seems correct? (Second Screenshot)

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3 years 10 months ago #14 by clivejo
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Yes, my install is doing the same. Also, individuals records are displaying as families for some reason. Even media records!

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3 years 10 months ago #15 by HRN

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3 years 10 months ago #16 by clivejo
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HRN wrote: This was fixed about a week ago
github.com/fisharebest/webtrees/commit/1...b11cf4e639a8a9c6e5f8


Applying this fix seems to fix my data leak issue as well. Should this fix not be released ASAP to fix the issue?

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3 years 10 months ago #17 by fisharebest
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> Should this fix not be released ASAP to fix the issue?

There is currently a problem caused by Bootstrap 4.5.0
See github.com/fisharebest/webtrees/issues/3281

It has been fixed upstream, so I am waiting for the 4.5.1 release.

After a ".0" release, Bootstrap usually release a ".1" fairly soon afterwards.
It's been 15 days since 4.5.0. Hopefully it will be soon.

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