Re: [Gramps-users] 2.3 Spec Suggestions

[Gerald B. <ger...@gm...>]

On 2/6/07, Jim Winfrey <jim...@gm...> wrote:
> 1.  Today, Gramps autofills the Event Description for marriages when
> importing a gedcom.  Is there a technical reason why it can't autofill
> for all events.  My thinking is this would be a two step process.
> Where other programs store data in the Description field, move this
> information to the Event note, then autofill with the Event
> Description that we need to work with in Gramps.  This relates only to
> actions during a gedcom import.
>
> I have a 16k+ database and it will take me until about 2030 to
> manually fill all the Event Descriptions fields.

I second that emotion!  It can't be hard to autopopulate a marriage
event with the description "Marriage of Mulder and Scully" or a birth
with "birth of AD Skinner"

>
> 2.  After a filtered search has been executed, I would like to be able
> to save the search results so that I can open it later and continue an
> editing session.  The form this would take would look like the Name
> screen and could be reopened.

Sounds like a nice idea

>
> 3.  Some indicator on the Relationships screen for which persons are
> "preferred".  Many programs include this as a way to keep focus on the
> ancestors of the Home person.  Makes navigation easier.  This is also
> useful when editing data not in the same tree as the Home person.  In
> this case you would select a new Home person and the program would
> automatically mark direct ancestors.
>
> 4.  Fix the bug in the Complete Individual Report so that when the
> filter is set to the individual only, the report does not generate for
> multiple person seemingly random.

Have you filed a bug report for this?

>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>
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