What is the best way to add documents and websites to a person?

[appletree]

I have two questions that I wasn't able to find an answer to in the Tutorial:
1. I want to add documents to people. This can either be JPEG-files, or PDF's. What is the best way to orderly add these?
2. I want to add websites to people. What would be the best entry field to add them? And is there also a way that Reunion saves the web page for offline, in case the webpage gets deleted?

Thanks a bunch!

[A Ginn]

Information about linking and displaying media including images and PDF documents is in the manual under Adding Media Items. I find it easiest to organize the files in family folders and drag them from there to the event media panes or media sidebar panes where they can be arranged as they are dropped. Files can be moved or renamed in the Finder without breaking the links. Most of my documents support events, and while they could be linked to sources cited for the events I prefer the visibility I get by linking the documents directly to the events. Images are sized to fit and cannot be zoomed in the media window, so I suggest first printing to PDF and then linking as a PDF that can be zoomed and scrolled.

For web pages, a URL can be dragged from the browser's address bar to a field in Reunion. The choice of field depends entirely on how you have organized your research and what the website provides. A web page can also be archived locally using Safari's Webarchive format, although a snapshot for offline use or a backup could also be saved as a PDF for any person, family, or event. From FileInfo.com:
If a Safari user wants to preserve the current version of a webpage, so they can view the page offline or access its content in the future, they can save that page as a Webarchive file. Each Webarchive file contains all the data Safari needs to open an exact replica of the webpage it describes (though interactive or dynamic elements may not function correctly without an Internet connection). To save a webpage as a Webarchive file:
Navigate to the webpage in Safari.
Select File - Save As
When the Save As window appears, select the Web Archive format.
Select Save.

After saving, double-click the file to open it in Safari, then drag the file:///Users/... address from Safari's address bar to a Reunion field. You can edit the link's display name in Reunion*. When you single-click the link in Reunion the file will be shown selected in its Finder folder. Double-click the file to view the archived page in Safari.

*Note: Changing a link's display name does not affect the link's path to the file. If you move or rename the webarchive file, however, you will have to either 1) right-click the link and edit the path name manually, or 2) just repeat the "After saving" step above to recreate the link from scratch.

Update: I should have mentioned that a basic way to add general media is to drop the file on the person's button or the couple's marriage bar. This is also the easiest way to recreate a general media section if you added event media before any general media and now discover you are unable to drop general media files directly onto that sidebar pane.

[Deena B]

I was thinking about this as well. For instance saving LinkedIn profiles. Do people do that and if you do, do you use a Fact and store the link there or put it in some kind of note? And why do you choose to do what you do? The other use case I thought about was saving Findagrave.com pages for people or other online memorial pages. I do make sources for those and have the links in the source, but it's a little bit more spelunking to go find it and may not be as nice for reports. Thanks.

[Deena B]

I guess no one uses LinkedIn links? I also had a related question about the .webarchive files. I can't seem to attach them to a source like I can a PDF. Is there a reason why not?

[Bob White]

Information about linking and ..........After saving, double-click the file to open it in Safari, then drag t............

Seems to me that is a lot of unnecessary extra action. If using Safari, just do File > Export as PDF.

[A Ginn]

I totally agree with Bob. That is why I originally suggested that a web page could also be saved as a PDF. That way it can be added to any person, family, or event (or source). It isn't truly saving the page offline as you asked, but even as a PDF some of the hyperlinks will still work.

Regarding why the webarchive file cannot be added, the manual explains that Reunion's multimedia features support the following:
Document file formats: PDF, RTF, Microsoft Word, Text.
Image or picture file formats: HEIC, JPEG, JPEG 2000, TIFF, GIF, PNG, Photoshop (version 2.5 or newer), BMP.

[Deena B]

Hi A Ginn. Yes, I see that webarchive files are not supported. Just not sure why. Will make a feature request. They are superior to PDF I think because I believe the weblinks in them stay functional. Thanks.

[Bob White]

Hi A Ginn. Yes, I see that webarchive files are not supported. Just not sure why. Will make a feature request. They are superior to PDF I think because I believe the weblinks in them stay functional. Thanks.

You will not find URL links in my Reunion files. Links have relatively short lives, so I think it is not worth the effort to keep them. It is better to save the information regarding where the information was found. Something like "Property Records, City Clerk office, City and State".... Thus, someone looking at your work 50 years from now, with those clues, could re-find the information regardless of how it is accomplished at that future date. It is possible that the Internet as we know it will be an ancient technology by then! Just sharing my opinion.

[Deena B]

Agreed, Bob, on the web URLs being transient. The ones I want to save are likely to be a bit more stable like a FamilySearchID link and maybe for a generation or two a LinkedIn profile. But the nice thing about the webarchive files is they do recreate the website as it was when you saw it and keep links live incase they still work. Thanks.