Re: [Gramps-users] Notes and data

[Nick H. <nic...@ho...>]

For Notes, I think that the Note Type could provide the required 
functionality, but at present it doesn't look like it does.

I assume that the idea is to hide research notes in some reports. It 
would be useful if by setting the Note Type to "Research" the note was 
excluded from reports. Perhaps reports that display notes could have an 
option "Display research notes?".


Tim Lyons wrote:
> I'm not sure exactly in which manner you wish Gramps to behave differently
> for 'data' as opposed to 'metadata'.
>
> Hence, the following suggestion may or may not do what you want.
>
> The census gramplet currently uses an 'order' attribute to record the order
> in which the entries appeared in the census. This is totally irrelevant in
> the Narrative Web report (as it is now) and hence I would like it to be
> omitted from that report. (It is currently marked as private so that it will
> not appear if private data is omitted, but this is just a work-around).
>
>   

Yes, the idea of hidden attributes with an initial underscore also 
occurred to me. I don't know what the other developers would think about it.


Nick.


> I suggest that if an attribute starts with an underscore, it be omitted from
> the output of reports. Similarly, if the note type starts with an
> underscore, then it too could be omitted from reports (you can type in new
> values for note types).
>
> There is a slight problem in that GEDCOM also uses underscore to denote
> things that are specific to a particular implementation, so this may be an
> undesirable overloading.
>