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Family tree

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The contacts App has a field "Related contacts" which allows specifying relationships like Mother, Child, Brother etc.
Currently, this information is not used.

Describe the solution you'd like

I propose a family tree feature which uses the "Related contacts" field to display a graphical Family Tree.
It can be very similar to the organization charts feature recently introduced.

This idea was originally mentioned in https://github.com/nextcloud/contacts/issues/2730#issuecomment-1285181382

Describe alternatives you've considered

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Additional context

To simplify specifying the "Related contacts", having https://github.com/nextcloud/contacts/issues/1046 would be very helpful.
However, plaintext entries should still be possible for relatives not in the contact list.
Also, having an option to select "Me" or "[username]" as related contact would be helpful, since people typically don't have themselves stored as contact, but most contacts will have some relation to the user itself.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the organization charts feature in PR #2726 and the related-contact discussion in issue #2730. The requested result is a graphical family tree based on Related contacts, while retaining plaintext relatives and considering self or username relationships; issue #1046 provides additional context for entering relationships.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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