How to Display Familial Relationships on a Diagram
This article explains how to create and display familial relationships on a diagram so that you can visualise parent, child, and spouse connections between individuals.
The steps vary slightly depending on whether you're drawing the relationship on the canvas or have already created it in your data.
Method 1: Drawing the Relationship on the Canvas
Before you start, make sure your diagram is open and both individuals are on the canvas.
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Drag from one individual to the other. Select Parent Of if you dragged from the parent, or Child Of if you dragged from the child. For spouse relationships, select Spouse Of.
If that kind of link is hidden in View Settings, StructureGram tells you the relationship was saved but won't appear on the diagram until you enable it.
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Click Settings.
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Select the Relationships tab.
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Scroll down to Family Links.
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Toggle on the relationship type you want to display: Parent for parent-child links, or Spouse.
Method 2: Relationship Created as Data First
If you created the familial relationship in your data before opening a diagram, it won't appear on the diagram automatically — and you won't receive a notification. To display it:
- Open a diagram containing the two individuals.
- Click Settings.
- Select the Relationships tab.
- Scroll down to Family Links.
- Toggle on the relationship type you want to display: Parent for parent-child links, or Spouse.
What You'll See
Once you toggle on a relationship type, the connection appears on the diagram as a labelled arrow. A parent-child link is drawn as a Parent Of arrow from the parent to the child, whichever way you drew it; enabling Spouse shows a Spouse Of connection between the two individuals.
Tips
- A family link is one link — drawing Child Of from the child saves the same single parent link as drawing Parent Of from the parent. There's no need to draw both, and both people's pages show it.