Re: [Gramps-devel] custom ID formats

[Doug B. <dou...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Enno Borgsteede <enn...@gm...>
wrote:

> Doug,
> > There is now a feature request for upgrading from previous gramps.ini
> > files:
> >
> > https://gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=8772
> >
> > and a fix applied to master. Please test this out. If we feel that
> > this solves the original problem (overflowing IDs) and doesn't create
> > other issues, we can consider it for gramps 4.2.0 (or 4.2.1 to be more
> > safe).
> A previous email did not make it to the list, so here's a shortened one.
>
> Copying settings on upgrade is nice, and welcome, but it doesn't solve
> the problem of copying settings when you work on one tree on two
> machines.


Enno,

I agree; the problem you identify is a separate issue.


> I use my laptop in weekends, and until now, I haven't bothered
> with the settings on that, meaning that when I import my 5 digit .gramps
> backup on that, all IDs below 10,000 do turn into 4 digit ones again.
>

That seems like a bug to me. I wouldn't think that Gramps needs to mess
with the gramps_id at all on a XML import. If a user wants to change the
gramps_ids, that should be done after import. If it didn't mess with them,
is there ever a situation where they would be truncated like you describe?


>
> This is not a big problem, because many times I don't make changes on
> that laptop, and even when I do, the next import into my desktop will
> return all IDs to their original size. I would appreciate having these
> settings, and also things like name and date formats, as file options,
> so that they are restored whenever I import a .gramps backup into an
> empty tree, or open the .gramps file directly.
>
> This would mean that like RootsMagic, we would distinguish between file
> and program options, which I think would make a few things more clear,
> for instance when it comes to researcher vs. file owner, which can be
> set in different menus now.
>

I guess before implementing more complexity in the defaults for gramps_ids,
I'd like the program to do the right thing.

Do you think that simply turning off the auto-reformating on XML import
would be an improvement?

-Doug


>
> regards,
>
> Enno
>
>
>
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