How to Get Connections to Appear in Profile Page?

Question

Hi, I am wondering if there is a method to have a new Degrees of Connection code similar to what is featured on the bottom of a profile page to be "customized" in my own profile?

For example, I would like to list all the PMs of Canada and the degrees of separation from myself; however, instead of searching each and editing my page, I would like the code to do the heavy lifting and display the closest connection just by loading the page.  This is similar to the degrees of separation on the profile page that admins load weekly.

I did find a profile that is "close" to what I am looking for as it must pull the "connection" from the logged-in user and display whether the logged-in user is connected to a person in a table: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Spingarn_Medal_Recipients

I see this as a value-added for sure.  

Any ideas of something like this is out there?

Thanks,

Answer 1

This sounds quite similar to what I've been asking for recently (https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1193263/would-like-your-relationship-each-person-their-profile-page).  People are telling me it would put too much strain on the server.  I would like the result of the relationship finder to be shown on each page, which is one calculation per page.  Your idea would be loads of calculations but only on the profile page, so... I don't know...

Try tagging your question with 'improvements' and someone from the tech team may look at it and respond.

For what it's worth, I like your idea. 

Comments

Hi Ian,

I did located this profile (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Spingarn_Medal_Recipients) as it seems to connect on the back end the logged-in user's connection to a list of people on the table and displays whether they are connected (YES) or not connected (NO).

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Ken,

I'm pretty sure the 'Connected' part means 'connected to the big WikiTree tree'.  So it's saying whether or not that person has enough connections to link them to the main tree.  It's not related to the user/member.

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Okay, that makes much more sense....Oddly, every single "YES" has a connection to me and every "NO" does not.  Maybe that is just the luck of the draw for myself.

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It's because you are connected to the big tree and so are they (or they are not).  If they are connected, they are somehow connected to you.

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Cool.  Thanks for your help.  I just started on wikitree this year so I'm a newbie in many ways.

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Happy to help.