Re: [Gramps-devel] Interactive Quick Reports (was Notes in V3.0)

[Douglas S. B. <db...@cs...>]

On Mon, September 17, 2007 5:41 am, bm...@ca... wrote:

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> Anna, that is actually what reports are for, so you might check out the
> reports
> if there is one that lists all the notes too and would allow you to do a
> cleanup in your notes. If it does not exist, you can do a request for a
> not
> es
> report, that gives the object, and a list with the notes of that object.
> Yo
> u
> could print it out, or look at it on screen while doing the cleanup.

The problem with reports is that they aren't interactive. But they could
be. Imagine a simple extension to the Quick Reports that would make some
items clickable, like the ReltionshipView is. For example, it could just
display names, but make the name a "link" that would change the active
person and display the relation view.

This could also be made as a basic document type so that all reports could
go "print" to the screen (perhaps even a tab) and be useful to navigate
around through the database. But that would be a larger project.

This could also help some of the screen-only reports that display
interesting stats, like the one that says that I have someone in my
database that died at the age of 150 years old. Who is it? Turn that
screen-only report into an interactive report, and you can just click on
it.

Maybe there is support in gtk for this now? It is basically just a page
with the limited markup that gtk allows, displayed on the canvas.

-Doug