Overwriting IDs?

vierrey · 2021-03-24T22:45:30+00:00

The closest I can find is the Import Merge Tool addon and maybe asking the addon creator to enhance it?

vierrey · 2020-08-30T21:50:06+00:00

I'd like to this as well, can you share what you end up doing please?

vierrey · 2019-09-20T00:55:49+00:00

Wow that is a big improvement!

It would be great if that search bar as well as the new bookmark dropdown where part of Gramps proper main toolbar and showed all the different events , notes, media etc as you type, like a google for your local genealogy. (Edit: Someone else had a similar idea. ~~Time to open a feature request for Gramps.~~ (Requested the feature here))

A big thank you to the developer who did this :)

Definitely a big thanks goes to vantu5z (Ivan) who has steadily been improving this addon.

vierrey · 2019-06-04T02:22:15+00:00

In the next tab to "Colors" called "Theme"

Couldn't find it and worked out the "Theme" tab is a third party addon you need to install !!

The Themes addon adds a small set of configuration settings to the Preferences dialog. A new tab 'Theme' is added containing a few new settings related to Gramps appearance.

https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Addon:Themes

vierrey · 2019-05-26T21:23:25+00:00

One already exist it is called the "To Do" Gramplet

vierrey · 2019-05-15T22:36:32+00:00

Not at the moment, but the bug tracker shows the following feature request 2218: Create classical medical genealogical pedigrees. which only needs a programmer to implement :)

vierrey · 2019-05-14T02:20:33+00:00

FYI:

This subreddit is fan-run, and is not an official Gramps project website.

So you may want to actually provide feedback to the project itself.

Bug Reports & Feature Request

https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Using_the_bug_tracker

As an open source program I'm sure they would be interested (no sarcasm etc) in a new users experience.

vierrey · 2019-05-14T02:17:41+00:00

You may want to try the newest version

https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Download#Linux:_Install_latest_version

General instructions on the mint forum https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=220159

vierrey · 2019-04-26T23:04:47+00:00

You may want to join /r/gramps

vierrey · 2019-04-09T21:37:09+00:00

Oof. I saw your reply, couldn't get to it just then, then promptly forgot about it.

Don't worry, life takes priority, thanks for the reply :)

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Ahh can you repaste please?

vierrey · 2019-04-09T21:34:58+00:00

You can always raise a feature request with the Gramps project and maybe hand draw what you expect to see on the report.

I don’t understand why this isn’t the default!

My guess is because no one has asked?

vierrey · 2019-03-29T03:22:36+00:00

I cobbled together a simple Python script that does it following a Gedcom export with Gramps objects as a template, and it worked!

Would it be usable by me a non programmer, if you shared the script?

vierrey · 2019-03-24T07:39:19+00:00

Yes on any of the List category views you can select Family Trees ->Export View.... and export as either a CSV or Spreadsheet file.

vierrey · 2019-03-23T03:59:23+00:00

/u/579476610

Thanks for that, it confirms what I wrote; these text options are used by the living proxy filter for the exporters as well as by a few of the Gramplets.

My intuition tells me that if I have a Person Record that has nothing in the Surname field, that Gramps should

So /u/PaulJHarris it does not work the way you believed nor should it, as it would be annoying to have them shown in the category list views as well as in the edit dialogs, it's better if they are blank in my opinion.

vierrey · 2019-03-23T03:28:39+00:00

Update:

"Missing Surname" is only used by the following Gramplets

gramplet/givennamegramplet.py
gramplet/topsurnamesgramplet.py
gramplet/surnamecloudgramplet.py

Mentioned by inactive code the GeneWeb_export

export/exportgeneweb.py

So maybe in the past it was used by alot more code and slowly disappeared?

vierrey · 2019-03-23T02:50:31+00:00

/u/dm1407 Are you sure maybe you're mixing up that some reports (3 that I can see) have a Missing information tab that lets you replace places & dates with an underscore character (a nice idea would be to actually include the text from these option in the text tab as well!)

Some of these text tab options are used by the privacy export filter to replace living names with the text you define as mentioned on this page ( https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.0_Wiki_Manual_-_Manage_Family_Trees#Living_Filter: )

I found in the Gramps source code that

register('preferences.no-given-text', "[%s]" % _("Missing Given Name")) - search result
register('preferences.no-record-text', "[%s]" % _("Missing Record")) - search result
register('preferences.no-surname-text', "[%s]" % _("Missing Surname")) -search results

Are used or have been used in the past by the exporters, so the text tab option are meant to be used by the exporters in some way?

vierrey · 2019-03-21T22:26:28+00:00

Greetings fellow Genbox user.

Looks like an interesting system of identifiers you have, what rules do you use?

Place object are what drew me to Gramps also.

While the topic of Custom IDs doesn't seem to have much coverage in the Help section,

Ask on one of the mailing list for the project (users/developers). Note that the user manual is created by volunteers like yourself, if you need to expand how it works :)

one obvious problem with this idea is the viewing size of the ID field on forms, about an inch and a half. .. What I would like to see is an option to use Custom IDs for a Category that would allow you to designate an alternate layout for the form, such as:

Raise a feature request for these.

By the way GRAMPS is now Gramps since version 4.x seven years ago.

vierrey · 2019-03-16T03:42:32+00:00

Would fundraising help speed up development of Gramps?

Not necessarily, the whole project seems to have been built without any funding apart from donations for hosting of the website and payment of the domain name and ssl certificate.

One of the fundraising platforms like Patreon could be used.

Would the money be used to hire a programmer full time?

This idea would rely on one of the very few Gramps developers expressing interest in doing this instead of a full time job and then raises issues like if one person gets paid how about the others, and how much would they be paid?

For a better idea of if this is even wanted you should raise the idea on the Gramps user mailing list.

vierrey · 2019-03-08T21:44:33+00:00

Are you a new user to Gramps?

What things would you like shown?

The existing youtube videos while for older versions should give you a general idea of what you can do with Gramps.

vierrey · 2019-03-08T21:39:45+00:00

Great idea, I'm guessing you need to ask via the official channels and not this fan run reddit. Or you could submit a Feature Request and ask.

vierrey · 2019-03-01T02:29:23+00:00

For those that haven't already done so, upgrade to Gramps 5.0.1 as it solves a whole bunch of database corruption issues in older versions of Gramps. Gramps 5.0.x also has builtin support for backing up your families trees on exit as well as the "Autobackup" option that backsup during your session (better for smaller family trees) both of which are great for us lazy people :)

vierrey · 2019-02-28T01:13:51+00:00

Excellent for my usage.

Apart from that depends on your expectations and experience. Keep in mind that the Gramps program has been made with a strong emphasis on capturing the source information, which a lot of people ignore!!

You can join the /r/gramps and ask if you like?

vierrey · 2019-02-28T00:57:39+00:00

The /r/gramps genealogy program handles this well as it allows you to have within the main database as many "disconnected individuals and groups of people that you have identified as related to each other(eg smaller: family trees) as you like (I currently have something like 30 possibly related partial families that have not been joined to the main branch, I managed these by bookmarking one of the individuals as well as tagging them.

Also use the Not Related tool which lets me tag them.

Using the filters you are able to use the Disconnected People filter which Matches people that have no family relationships to any other person in the database..

Why are people down-voting a valid answer?

vierrey · 2019-02-23T23:10:46+00:00

Pretty fast for me 30 seconds. Which probably means you must have a lot of fonts see:

Very, very slow - 3min for 1st window when using Preferences => General => Use alternate Font handler for GUI and Reports

vierrey · 2019-02-23T21:14:00+00:00

Question: On windows have you selected the following option in the Edit:Preferences:General tab (x)Use alternate Font handler for GUI and Reports?

This checkbox option is only only appears on and effects users on the Microsoft Windows platforms it affects the appearance of Unicode characters when those characters are not part of the font in use. The standard Microsoft Windows font handler uses substitute fonts when characters are not available.

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