Re: [Gramps-users] Best way to share a Family Tree between multiple users?

[coolnodje <coo...@gm...>]

Hi,

thanks for your answer, but it's not really helping me decide on how to
share a Family Tree

I was not speaking og GRAMPS ID, but of what seems to be a uniquely
named folder inside /grampsdb.
At first I thought I could simply share /grampsdb folder, but as there
exists  what seems to be a unique folder inside, I doubt another
instance of Gramps would be able to read a copy of it.

So are you confirming that copying the content of grampsdb/<ID
folder>/*.*to another instance can work?

best

> Jerome <mailto:rom...@ya...>
> 29 July 2014 20:50
> Hi,
>
> We cannot really say that current ID are unique, despite the fact that
> gramps DB handles are close to this propriety, and are more robust
> than any simple textual ID.
>
> You can see some GRAMPS ID into editors.
> They are cosmetic! Gramps IDs (handles) are hidden.
>
> Most textual GRAMPS ID are inherited from others indexes (eg, gedcom
> file format), and only few are handled by external file formats or DB
> (csv, gedcom, etc ...). eg, Events, Places, Citations IDs are maybe
> ignored from export to others files formats than XML! On the other
> hand, only Gramps XML file format seems to support our internal handles.
>
> About uniqueID, you can look at some additional ideas/scripts[1] or
> the experimental webapp[2]!
>
> About sharing 'grampsdb', maybe you should first take care of possible
> issues!
> This could work if you use the same python/bsddb and gramps versions
> for all your clients. Should work whatever OS, but you can have some
> path issues around DB read and write under some OS. Also, some people
> are using dropbox.
>
> I remember having some issues with RAID environment in the past, but
> this was not related to gramps or 'grampsdb' path set. I did not get
> problems via owncloud under linux.
>
> [1]
> https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_009:_Import_Export_Merge
>
> [2]
> https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_013:_Gramps_Webapp
>
>
>
> best regards,
>
>
> Le mar. 29 juil. 2014 at 5:05, coolnodje <coo...@gm...> a écrit
>
> coolnodje <mailto:coo...@gm...>
> 29 July 2014 11:05
> Hi,
>
> I've just discovered Gramps and I'm really exited about it.
>
> Ideally I'd like to share a Family Tree so that multiple users can work
> on it (not simultaneously of course).
>
> Import/Export seemed a natural way to do this, but after a few tests, I
> realized it's not really adapted for this purpose as it imports the
> archive content over the currently opened Family Tree.
>
> I was thinking I could share the Family Tree Database under 'grampsdb'
> but I feel that it's under a unique identifier that probably won't be
> taken into account by another install of Gramps.
>
> Now looking at what's in grampsdb, it feels like it's probaby where the
> right set of files to share is located: would sharing the content of the
> grampsdb/uniqueID make two instances of gramps be identical?
>
> Would that work?
> Is there any easier way?
>
> best regards