Re: [Gramps-devel] New place sidebar filter

[Nick H. <ni...@gr...>]

On 26/01/15 20:50, Enno Borgsteede wrote:
>> On 25/01/15 20:39, Enno Borgsteede wrote:
>>> >>Not having much experience with 4.x, I'd say that name, type and code
>>> >>are enough, but this brings me to the question where the phone number
>>> >>goes during conversion. Can you tell?
>> >The phone number gets put into the code field.
> With every place having a code field, what type is it converted to? I
> mean, suppose I have a location with a ZIP code and a phone number, and
> nothing else, what do I get after conversion?

The code would contain the ZIP code and phone number concatenated.

The place type would be set to "Unknown".

>> >Searching places by gramps id, name, type and code is very easy.  I have
>> >already written a rule for this.
> OK, I see no title mentioned here, but no sign that it will completely
> disappear or be generated either. What about that?

I could easily add a title field in the filter.

>>> >>As an extension, it might be nice to expand the filter so that it can
>>> >>find words in different levels of a hierarchy, so that I can enter say a
>>> >>street name and city, and have it match all parts of the location tree
>>> >>where both apply. Ideally, this should work without specifying types in
>>> >>the search itself.
>> >The existing filter sidebar actually searches locations created from the
>> >hierarchy.
> I assume that it will use the old types then, like street, locality,
> city, etc. What about new types, or user defined ones?

That is why bug #7860 was opened.

>> >If someone comes up with a good user interface design, them I'm happy to
>> >code it.
> What I'd love to see is maybe a bit like Google maps. When you type a
> single name, maybe even separate words like "nieuwe kerk" or "Noord
> Holland", it will find places with a matching name, on any level, and
> when you type a comma separated list, like "nieuwe kerk, Amsterdam" you
> will find any occurrence of "nieuwe kerk" embedded by "Amsterdam"
> regardless of the number of levels between them.
>

You could do this with a regular expression search on the title field.


Nick.