Re: [Gramps-users] Researcher Info On Reports

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

2011/5/4 Michael Reich <mar...@ya...>

>  I've added a feature request as you suggested (#4883) - hopefully I filled
> out the form correctly!  Thanks.
>
>
Great.
Don't get discouraged now if nobody jumps on it immediately.
Also, know that adding some printed lines to reports is not too hard even
for a non-programmer (in my opinion at least).
Eg, plugins/IndivComplete.py contains the code for the individual complete
report.
If you search on write_report, you will find the function that writes the
report out.
If you now change this method, to add lines to print the researcher, like
this:

    def write_report(self):
        plist = self.database.get_person_handles(sort_handles=True)
        if self.filter:
            ind_list = self.filter.apply(self.database, plist)
        else:
            ind_list = plist

        for count, person_handle in enumerate(ind_list):
            self.person = self.database.get_person_from_handle(
                person_handle)
            self.write_person(count)
        owner = self.database.get_researcher()
        self.doc.start_paragraph("IDS-Title")
        self.doc.write_text('Researcher')
        self.doc.end_paragraph()

        self.doc.start_paragraph("IDS-Normal")
        self.doc.write_text(owner.get_name())
        self.doc.end_paragraph()

So the first new line is the line starting with owner = ...
Then the researcher will be printed. This code should be very readable, you
start a paragraph to add a title element (IDS-Title is a style property
defined at the beginning of the report, it is what you can change in the
report dialog).
Here I just print the researcheer name, if you want to print more, you can
see the available methods in our API:
http://www.gramps-project.org/docs/gen/gen_lib.html#module-gen.lib.researcher

If you safe the file after edit, you can start Gramps, and the researcher
should just show.
So, I hope to show like this that doing small changes in Gramps is actually
not that hard, as the code is very readable.

Benny


> On 5/3/11 4:34 PM, Doug Blank wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Michael Reich <mar...@ya...> <mar...@ya...> wrote:
>
>
>  I'm a new user of Gramps (OSX, 10.6+) and have used another program for
> many years in the Windows environment (also on OSX with a VirtualBox
> environment.   I have a question about reports in Gramps.   Is there
> reason that the "Researcher" information doesn't appear on reports?
> I'm used to that happening and don't see any option to enable this on
> reports.
>
>
>  That's a nice idea; I don't think we have any reports that have that option.
>
> Gramps is written in a manner that such an option might be able to be
> easily added so that it appears as an option to every report.
>
> What we ask users that have good ideas to do is to make a "Feature
> Request" at our issue tracker, so these ideas don't get lost and
> forgotten in the mailing list.
>
> See http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/ for making a feature request.
> You'll need to make an account.
>
>
>
>  So far, I'm liking what I see in Gramps, especially the multi-platform
> support.   I don't plan to return to Windows for my primary computing,
> but it's nice that the option is there (as well as Ubuntu).
>
>
>  Welcome to Gramps!
>
> -Doug
>
>
>
>  Thanks in advance for any responses to this question!
>
>
>
>
>
>
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