Module DoliGenweb EN

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Informations

Module name	DoliGenweb
Editor / Editeur
Download or buy page / Page achat ou téléchargement	External module - www.dolistore.com
Status / Statut / Estado	Stable
Prerequisites / Prérequis	PHP 7.2 minimum - PHP calendar extension recommended Dolibarr min version: See on Dolistore    Dolibarr max version: See on Dolistore
Last update date / Date mise à jour fiche / Fecha última actualización	2026-10-20
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Features

DoliGenweb brings genealogy to Dolibarr: individuals, families, parent links, places and life events, with ancestor and descendant trees, Sosa numbering, historical context and GEDCOM import/export. All data stays in your Dolibarr and follows its usual ergonomics (filterable lists, cards with tabs, notes, documents, complementary attributes, per-user rights).

Five genealogical objects

• Individuals: last name, first name, gender, occupation (dictionary), photo, optional link to a Dolibarr third party.
• Families: union between two individuals, of type Marriage, Union, Civil partnership or Cohabitation, with date, place and dissolution date.
• Relationships: parent / child link (father or mother) and order of the child among siblings.
• Sources: working genealogy rooted on one individual (the de cujus), which enables Sosa-Stradonitz numbering.
• Places: town, zip code, state, country, type and GPS coordinates, with an OpenStreetMap map.

The module dashboard shows the number of individuals, families, relationships and places, and the latest modified records.

Individual card

The individual card gathers identity, parents, spouses, children and life events (birth, baptism, death, burial, marriage, occupation...). Each event has a date, a place, a source and a date precision: Exact, About, Before, After, Between or Unknown.

Buttons create the father, mother, a child or a spouse directly from the card, saving the link in a single step.

Available tabs: Individual, Trees, Contacts, Notes, Documents, Historical events (Contacts, Notes, Documents and Agenda are enabled in the setup).

Family trees

• Ancestors or descendants, from 2 to 8 generations.
• Boxes view or zoomable ancestry wheel.
• Display of the place of birth, marriage or death, filter on one place, or hidden places.
• Tree generated as a landscape PDF.
• Last settings are remembered for each user.

Historical context

The Historical events tab queries Wikidata and Wikipedia to find the events that occurred during the individual's life and the heads of state of the period, for France, Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy and Spain. Countries are preselected from the individual's places.

Geolocated places

The Search coordinates button finds the latitude and longitude of a place with OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocoding, and the place is shown on a map.

GEDCOM import and export

• Import: drag and drop of the .ged file, upload in 512 KB chunks (large files go through without touching PHP limits), progress bar, resume of an interrupted import and import history.
• Export: GEDCOM 5.5.1 file in UTF-8, filterable by beginning of last name and by gender.
• Supported tags: INDI, FAM, NAME, SEX, BIRT, DEAT, BAPM, CHR, BURI, MARR, OCCU, EVEN, NOTE, SOUR, OBJE, PLAC, TITL, HUSB, WIFE, CHIL, FAMC, FAMS, CHAR, CONC, CONT.

Calendar converter

The setup offers a date converter between the Gregorian, Julian, French Republican, Hebrew and Islamic calendars, with Julian day and age of the Moon, to transcribe old records.

Built-in user guide

A complete guide in French, English, German, Spanish and Italian is available directly from the module setup, User guide tab, in the interface language.

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Prerequisites

Dolibarr: supported versions:

• 24.x

PHP: version 7.2 minimum, tested up to PHP 8.5.

PHP extension: calendar recommended (Republican, Hebrew and Islamic calendars of the converter).

Server Internet access: needed for the historical context (Wikidata, Wikipedia) and place geocoding (OpenStreetMap Nominatim). The rest of the module works offline.

⚙️ Installation procedure

⚙️ Method 1: installation from the Dolibarr interface

1. Go to Home > Setup > Modules/Applications.
2. Open the Deploy/install external app/module tab.
3. Click Choose file and select the module .zip file.
4. Click Upload file to start the installation.
5. Enable the module once the installation is complete.

If Dolibarr rejects the file ("The file size is too large"), raise the MAIN_UPLOAD_DOC limit in Home > Setup > Security, Files tab, or the PHP settings upload_max_filesize and post_max_size, or use method 2.

⚙️ Method 2: manual installation on the server

The zip contains a htdocs/doligenweb/ folder; the doligenweb folder must end up in the Dolibarr custom directory.

1. Unzip: unzip module_doligenweb-X.Y.Z.zip -d /tmp/doligenweb_zip
2. Copy: cp -r /tmp/doligenweb_zip/htdocs/doligenweb /path/to/dolibarr/htdocs/custom/
3. Grant rights to the web server if needed: chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/dolibarr/htdocs/custom/doligenweb
4. Check that the location is htdocs/custom/doligenweb (not htdocs/custom/htdocs/doligenweb).
5. Enable the module from Dolibarr.

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Setup

Access: Home > Setup > Modules/Applications, DoliGenweb settings icon.

Tab	Content
Settings	Show the Contacts, Notes, Documents and Agenda tabs; calendar converter
Complementary attributes	Custom fields for families, individuals and places
GEDCOM import	Upload of a .ged file and import history
GEDCOM export	Generation of a filtered .ged file
User guide	Complete guide in the interface language
About	Module information

Rights: Individual, Family, Relationship, Source and Place each have a Read, Create/Update and Delete right (Users & Groups menu, Permissions tab).

Dictionaries: Individual event types and Occupations (Home > Setup > Dictionaries menu).

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Usage

1. Import an existing GEDCOM file (GEDCOM import tab of the setup), or create individuals one by one from DoliGenweb > Individuals > New individual.
2. Complete the records: parents, spouses, children, life events with dates, places and sources.
3. Create a source in DoliGenweb > Sources with your root individual to display Sosa numbers.
4. Display the tree from the Trees tab of an individual, then print it as PDF.
5. Place an ancestor's life in History with the Historical events tab.
6. Export the genealogy as GEDCOM to exchange it with other software.

The GEDCOM import and export screens are currently displayed in French only.

Troubleshooting

Symptom	Likely cause / solution
The DoliGenweb menu does not appear	Read right not granted to the user
The Contacts, Notes or Documents tabs are missing	Option disabled in the Settings tab
Republican, Hebrew or Islamic calendars missing	PHP calendar extension missing on the server
"No birth date" message	Add a dated birth event to the individual
No historical event found	Server without Internet access, or no country selected
GEDCOM import locked	Unlock import button, then start again
Wrong accents after import	GEDCOM file not UTF-8 encoded: re-export it as UTF-8
Sosa numbers do not appear	No active source: select one in DoliGenweb > Sources

The Dolibarr log (Home - Setup - Other - Logs) traces imports and calls to external services.

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Other languages

• Documentation française du module DoliGenweb
• Deutsche Dokumentation für das Modul DoliGenweb
• Documentación en español del módulo DoliGenweb
• Documentazione in italiano del modulo DoliGenweb

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