From: Miranda C. <mir...@ti...> - 2007-04-04 19:05:04
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I'm a newbie to GRAMPS, so I apologize if these things are already there and I just haven't found them yet! :D [I'm running GRAMPS 2.2.6-1 on Ubuntu Feisty, if that makes any difference.] My most important request is this: in the LDS Ordinances dialog, there is no option for "Sealed to Spouse!" I actually have two ancestors for which this is all that has been done; no baptism, no endowment, no confirmation, and no sealing to parents. When I'm recording that ordinance information, I have to just say "Baptism" and put a note in the record that it was actually a sealing to spouse. If I knew how to program I would do it myself; if my husband didn't work 65 hours a week I'd ask him to do it; I am at the mercy of the developers! If you lovely wonderful programmers only did this one part of my request and ignored the rest of it, I would still be very happy! Secondly, and not nearly as important: When entering an event for a person, when that event is a marriage, there should be a place in the dialog for me to specify which spouse that marriage was to. Say Jane was married twice, so when I'm giving her two marriage events, I'd like to be able to specify which spouse each of those marriages was to. Building on that, I would love it if once I've specified that Jane married Bill, I could then see that marriage event listed on Bill's profile. It's tedious to enter marriages twice for each couple, or to just enter it once then never know for sure which of the two has the event to their name. Third, and also not a huge deal: The relationship graph of my pedigree is a MESS. Many of the arrows get so jumbled together I can't tell who gave birth to whom. Also, when I specify in the generator dialog "optimum layout" (or whatever it's called), it doesn't ever change from what it did the last time. Maybe it's just always the optimum layout? Also, when the relationship graph spans more than one page, it would be MUCH easier to piece the pages back together if there was some overlap between the pages; this overlap would need to take printer margins into consideration, as well. (The relationship graph generator currently spreads the graph out all the way to the edge of the paper, where the printer cannot possibly print.) [I always specify "PDF" as the output format, BTW.] Last (I posted this in Gramps-users, also) I would LOVE to be able to filter by LDS Ordinance Data; specifically, to be able to see which names have had no ordinances done or all done, baptism or no baptism, endowment or no endowment, etc. If there is currently a way to do this, I apologize, but I have been playing with it all morning and haven't figured out how! Oh, one more thing. It would be neat if the pedigree view showed not only birth and death dates, but marriage dates too. Oooh, and places of all these events, too. And, if every time I started up Gramps, a bowl of ice cream appeared next to my keyboard, that would be awesome! Thank you, oh intelligent Gramps developers! Miranda |
From: Don A. <don...@co...> - 2007-04-04 19:42:32
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On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 14:05 -0500, Miranda Caswell wrote: > I'm a newbie to GRAMPS, so I apologize if these things are already there > and I just haven't found them yet! :D >=20 > [I'm running GRAMPS 2.2.6-1 on Ubuntu Feisty, if that makes any differenc= e.] >=20 > My most important request is this: in the LDS Ordinances dialog, there > is no option for "Sealed to Spouse!" I actually have two ancestors for > which this is all that has been done; no baptism, no endowment, no > confirmation, and no sealing to parents. When I'm recording that > ordinance information, I have to just say "Baptism" and put a note in > the record that it was actually a sealing to spouse. If I knew how to > program I would do it myself; if my husband didn't work 65 hours a week > I'd ask him to do it; I am at the mercy of the developers! If you > lovely wonderful programmers only did this one part of my request and > ignored the rest of it, I would still be very happy! Sealed to Spouse attached to the Family, not the Person attribute. Bring up the Family editor, and you will find it under the LDS tab for a family. >=20 > Secondly, and not nearly as important: > When entering an event for a person, when that event is a marriage, > there should be a place in the dialog for me to specify which spouse > that marriage was to. Say Jane was married twice, so when I'm giving > her two marriage events, I'd like to be able to specify which spouse > each of those marriages was to. > Building on that, I would love it if once I've specified that Jane > married Bill, I could then see that marriage event listed on Bill's > profile. It's tedious to enter marriages twice for each couple, or to > just enter it once then never know for sure which of the two has the > event to their name. Again, this is a Family event, not a person event. Add the event to the Family. Bring up the Family Editor, and you can add the event there. >=20 > Third, and also not a huge deal: > The relationship graph of my pedigree is a MESS. Many of the arrows get > so jumbled together I can't tell who gave birth to whom. Also, when I > specify in the generator dialog "optimum layout" (or whatever it's > called), it doesn't ever change from what it did the last time. Maybe > it's just always the optimum layout? Also, when the relationship graph > spans more than one page, it would be MUCH easier to piece the pages > back together if there was some overlap between the pages; this overlap > would need to take printer margins into consideration, as well. (The > relationship graph generator currently spreads the graph out all the way > to the edge of the paper, where the printer cannot possibly print.) [I > always specify "PDF" as the output format, BTW.] The layout of the graph is determined by the graphviz package, not by us. You can try tweaking the generated ".dot" file, but again, most of the layout is beyond our control. The GraphViz package is supposed to generate optimum layouts from relationship information. > Last (I posted this in Gramps-users, also) > I would LOVE to be able to filter by LDS Ordinance Data; specifically, > to be able to see which names have had no ordinances done or all done, > baptism or no baptism, endowment or no endowment, etc. If there is > currently a way to do this, I apologize, but I have been playing with it > all morning and haven't figured out how! At this point, we don't have the ability. Could you file a feature request at http://bugs.gramps-project.org ? > Oh, one more thing. It would be neat if the pedigree view showed not > only birth and death dates, but marriage dates too. Oooh, and places of > all these events, too. Places is something that we could probably add at some point. The problem with Marriages is that there can be any number of marriages for a particular person.=20 > And, if every time I started up Gramps, a bowl of ice cream appeared > next to my keyboard, that would be awesome! Look under the Tools menu, under Database Repair, and look for the "Ice Cream" menu. You should find it right under the "Fold Laundry" entry. Don |
From: Eero T. <ee...@us...> - 2007-04-11 22:27:32
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Hi, On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 14:05 -0500, Miranda Caswell wrote: > Third, and also not a huge deal: > The relationship graph of my pedigree is a MESS. Many of the arrows get > so jumbled together I can't tell who gave birth to whom. Your best option is to create some custom filters to select suitable subsets of the people in your database. If you have too many items in (any complex) graph, it will always be a mess. > Also, when I > specify in the generator dialog "optimum layout" (or whatever it's > called), it doesn't ever change from what it did the last time. > Maybe it's just always the optimum layout? It's just one of the layout options provided by the underlying GraphViz package. Maybe updating your GraphViz version could help (you could download the latest sources from graphviz.org and built it yourself)? > Also, when the relationship graph > spans more than one page, it would be MUCH easier to piece the pages > back together if there was some overlap between the pages; this overlap > would need to take printer margins into consideration, as well. (The > relationship graph generator currently spreads the graph out all the way > to the edge of the paper, where the printer cannot possibly print.) Isn't there a margin option in the GraphViz dialog? (I don't have currently a working Gramps installation) You could also try generating the intermediate "dot" format (in code reports submenu) and check "man dot" for what the GraphViz "dot" utility input file options do. - Eero |