Re: [Gramps-devel] [Gramps-users] Simple Scripting

[doug <do...@o2...>]

On 08/07/13 12:22, Benny Malengier wrote:
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> 2013/7/8 Serge Noiraud <Ser...@fr...
> <mailto:Ser...@fr...>>
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>     Le 08/07/2013 12:31, paul womack a écrit :
>      > Serge Noiraud wrote:
>      >> Le 06/07/2013 11:59, doug a écrit :
>      >>> On 05/07/13 18:20, Serge Noiraud wrote:
>      >>>> Le 05/07/2013 14:09, jerome a écrit :
>      >>>>>> can I create a custom-view in the geography
>     window (with which I am much smitten) ?
>      >>>>> Maybe this has been already done on Gramps4 ???
>      >>>>> i.e, Serge generated some new views and he
>     enhanced behavior between active places and events on
>     Gramps4!
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>>
>     http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Geography
>      >>>> And you can use filtering to reduce or select only
>     what you want.
>      >>> Can you expand on this? The Geography wiki seems to
>     imply
>      >>> that filters *can't* be used with the geography views.
>      >> Filters are valid only for events and places views.
>      >> For persons or families, filtering has no meaning I
>     think.
>      >>
>      >> If you use geography for persons, filtering is only
>     on persons
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>      > This doesn't (in 3.4) seem to be true. "Person" only
>     displays
>      > the active (selected) person, so filtering has no
>     meaning.
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>      > I would *very much* like to be able to display all
>     places for a filtered
>      > group of people.
>     Effectively, for the geography persons view, filters are
>     on persons and this has no effect
>     because the geography view for person is only for the
>     active person. it's the same for 4.x.
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>     So, you can only view all events for this person if
>     those events have places with coordinates.
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>     It's exactly the same for families.
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>     It is actually impossible to do what you want.
>     The only view which could do that is the places view.
>     The problem is the filtering.
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>     I am only able to filters places on this view. People
>     filtering is actually impossible on this view.
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> But, to filter on people in the people view, you could
> combine with a filter People with events with place ...
> If such a filter does not exist yet, it would be easy to
> implement.
> So, from People, you could filter on place in the event.
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> Benny
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It would be very nice indeed to have a Geography View of 
filtered Places, because its' quite easy to create a Place 
filter for all the birthplaces of descendants of given 
ancestor, for example (Person filter=>Event filter=>Place 
filter) with the existing filter rules.

Doug