Here is the screen shot on the blog post (for a clearer image, click on the image in Michael's blog post):
There are three panels on this screen:
1) The left panel has menu items that control the other two panels. They are:
* File
* Dashboard
* People (the screen above is for People)
* Places
* Sources
* Media
* Tasks
* Addresses
* Search
* Publish
* Settings
2) The middle panel has all of the "views" including icons for:
* Pedigree (shown on the screen above)
* Family
* Descendants
* Persons (?)
* Groups (?)
* Home Person (?)
* Back
* Forward
In addition, the middle panel has:
* + icon (perhaps to add an unrelated person?)
* a three-dot icon (which may have other useful functions, like Tools, TreeShare, etc)
3) The right-hand panel has all of the information for the highlighted person on the View in icons for:
* Info - for highlighted person (shown on screen above)
* Person List (?) - the letter icon - probably all of the persons in the tree file
* Timeline (?) - the clock icon - probably the list of events for the person
* Media (?) - what is that icon?
* Notes (?) - the note card icon? probably person notes
4) I don't see a FamilySearch icon or a WebHints icon on the screen above. I expect (and hope) that they will be next to the name on the View panels like in RM7.
5) I did get a 20 minute preview of all of this at Jamboree from Bruce Buzbee, but I can't recall all of the details. The detail I do recall is that navigating to a specific person will be done in the right-hand panel (I think) with the Person List icon - there will be a search field open to go to a named person (this is different from the Name Index in RootsMagic 7).
For comparison purposes, here is a RootsMagic 7 Pedigree View screen:
And here is a RootsMagic 7 "Edit Person" screen for my grandfather:
This change from RootsMagic Version 7 to Version 8 will have a significant learning curve, in my opinion. All of those menu and icon links on the RootsMagic 7 View screen, and many of the buttons on the Edit Person screen, will be in a different place now, and the process for adding or editing data will be somewhat different.
There are two screen shots on the RootsMagic blog post - one for Windows (the screen shown above) and one for Macintosh computers. They look identical!
I think that RootsMagic will release more screen views in the coming months, and as the release of the RootsMagic 8 program becomes reality there will be videos on the RootsMagic TV YouTube channel and also in their blog posts and their RootsMagic Users Facebook group.
I am not a RootsMagic beta tester, but have had the limited exposure to the Version 8 at Jamboree. Some of my comments above are conjecture and may be wrong, so take them with a grain of salt.
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Disclosure: I am a satisfied user of the RootsMagic family tree program and have been since about 2006. I have paid for every software version release since. I have received no financial considerations from RootsMagic ever (to my knowledge).
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Copyright (c) 2019, Randall J. Seaver
5 comments:
Thanks Randy for the higher res photo of the screen shot!! - the one in my email from RootsMagic was unreadable.
It does look significantly different and I think there will be a good-sized learning curve. . . .just when I've pretty much figured out where everything is and how to use it. It's kind of like knowing where everything is on the supermarket shelves. . .until the head office decides products need to be rotated. Any idea when RM 8 will be released? I thought it would be available at RootsTech and then by the other spring conferences when that didn't happen.
Linda, the official date is before the end of 2019. I hope so!
I too thought it would be at NGS or FGS. Perhaps RootsTech London? On my October birthday?
Looks a lot like GRAMPs now. I do use GRAMPs along with RM and like it too.
Given the color in the screen shots you posted, this RM update would be most welcome for my "senior" eyes! I also hope the update is speedier for Macs. Thanks for the preview.
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