Re: [Gramps-users] Occupation Event

[Nick H. <nic...@ho...>]

I was involved in a previous discussion. I use the description to record 
information such as the occupation of an occupation event or the type of 
property in a property event. In my opinion this is the correct usage of 
this field.

However, there are clear disadvantages of not having the participant(s) 
of the event in the description. (The type of the event is already 
stored separately.)

As a result I raised a feature request:

0002773: Primary participant(s) in Events View

I suggested adding an extra column for the participant(s) so that the 
description could be kept for the description only. The request seemed 
to be dismissed due to performance concerns.

The approach I then took was to include both the participant(s) and 
description in the description field separated by a vertical bar 
character. The idea being that I could easily remove the extra 
information if I later decided it was a bad idea. I changed the "Extract 
event descriptions" tool to add the participants automatically.

I have since added a participant property to the event object and 
modified the description property to just return the description part of 
the field. This enabled me to add a participant column to the Event view 
and also add participant details to the back reference tabs of the place 
and source.

I am happy to share my code if anyone is interested. I have never 
contributed to an open source software project before so if any 
developer could give me some advice then I would appreciate it. If 
someone has a better idea of how to solve this problem I wouldn't mind 
working on it.

Regards,

Nick Hall.


Martin Steer wrote:
> Jim Winfrey <jim...@gm...> writes:
>
>   
>> But occupations can come from other documents like census records and
>> the person's occupation can change over time. For these I record an
>> occupation event giving the date and place. My question is where does
>> the Occupation itself go? Right now, I list them in the Description
>> field but that violates the prupose of that field. How do others
>> handle this?
>>
>>     
>
> It's been a while since I've used gramps, but if things haven't changed,
> this is indeed a problem.
>
> Like you, I have some occupation events, but they have always
> discomfited me. I like the description field to tell me what the event
> is, usually whose event it is, e.g. "Birth of Kelly, Ned". If the
> description field says "Bushranger" it's not much good to me. Worse if
> it's "Stonemason": how to tell at a glance which of several sometime
> stonemasons the event belongs to?
>
> By the way, this general topic (the description field and its uses) has
> come up a few times in the last year or so.
>
> --
> Martin
>
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