We announced a couple of new features yesterday, among them the new view-only invitation, which allows you to invite people whose profiles you have created in your family tree as users who can only look at the tree, but cannot edit anything, or invite other persons to it.

Inviting someone as a view-only user generally works like a normal invitation. There are three ways to invite someone, either via their Flash-profile (from your family tree), or via their extended HTML-profile. In any case, you need to enter the corresponding email address into the field provided for that. You can either enter your own text by checking the box for that (a field for entering text will appear), or use our generic text.

• Inviting someone via their profile card

• Inviting someone via their detailed profile-card: click on “Profile” on the small profile card in your family tree (the email address can either be entered here or into the small profile card)

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• Inviting someone via their detailed profile page: click on “Details” in the detailed profile mentioned above

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This is what the family tree looks like for view-only users, note that the arrows for adding persons and the possibility to add information to empty profile cards are missing:

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