Re: [Gramps-users] What am I doing wrong?

[Pat C. <wee...@in...>]

On 08/07/2011 06:15 AM, Jean McClendon wrote:
> Hello, I have finally been able to get the new version of Gramps
> installed on my Mac.  Before when I wanted a descendant or ancestor list
> I knew where to find it and how to do it. I would make the person active
> (and usually at the very top of the tree) that I wanted the list for and
> then go to the reports find what I wanted and then create it.  Now when
> I do that there is a totally different person that Gramps has done the
> list for.  Is this a bug and needs to be reported or what?

Highlight the person you want the report for in the people view. Go to 
reports and choose the report you want.
The name of the person last reported on will still there as center person.
Click on the blue question mark at the end of the Center Person line. 
You will find the family name of your highlighted person. Click on the 
family name and pick out the person.

Each time you report on a person from a new family it is added to the 
family name options.

I find this a bit long winded, too, and preferred the old system.
> Also I think you said that you can have several different family files
> installed on Gramps but can only open and work on  one at a time, is
> this correct?  Why I am asking I will shortly be receiving a large file
> that I need to proof over but want to also keep my original file that I
> am working on now.
Click on the Family Trees menu (top left corner of screen). Choose new 
(on left of the list of trees). Give the new tree a suitable name. Open 
it and then, using the Family Trees menu again, import the new file.

Hope this is what you wanted.

Pat