Re: [Gramps-users] Event Locations: One newbie question

[Gerald B. <ger...@gm...>]

Ah yes, well the Alternate Locations tab is a way to specify that a
given place has (or has had) more than one geo-politlcal location.
e.g. some parts of Poland before WWII are now in Germany.  Go farther
back in history and the problem gets worse.  Jerusalem is in modern
Israel if you ask the Israelis and in occupied Palestine if you ask
the Palestinians.  Who is correct?  Well that's a political hot potato
that I don't want.  However, in gramps, you could choose one to be the
primary location and the other to be the alternate.  But then, there
has been some sort of settlement on the same site as Jerusalem since
pre-history.  You might have to include Salem, Canaan as an alternate
location together with British Palestine, a province of Babylon and
many many others.

Basically, it doesn't make sense to be able to select a different
location for an alternate location.

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Ralph Spilsport <rsp...@ya...> wrote:
> Understood. And that works fine for the Location tab. But there appears to
> be no way to get a dropdown list of existing Places from the Alternate
> Location tab. The only icon is the "+" icon. There is no pointing finger
> icon available at the Alternate Location tab.
>
> ________________________________
> From: Gerald Britton <ger...@gm...>
> To: Ralph Spilsport <rsp...@ya...>
> Cc: "gra...@li..."
> <gra...@li...>
> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 8:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gramps-users] Event Locations: One newbie question
>
> You're partly right.  The "+" icon for places is used to add a new
> place, so naturally there is no dropdown to select an existing place.
> OTOH the pointing finger is for selecting an existing place, so
> naturally it does not lead to a dialog to add a new place.
>
> This is a basic M.O. in gramps.
>
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Ralph Spilsport <rsp...@ya...>
> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I am entering a birth for which I have a date, but for which my source is
>> uncertain of the name of the town in which the birth occurred. My source
>> tells me that there are two possibilities.
>>
>> When go to enter a location for the birth, I have no problem selecting a
>> Place from a list of previously entered Places.  I click the paper with
>> hand
>> with extended index finger icon, this brings me to the list of Places, and
>> I
>> choose one. No problem there. But when I try to add an Alternate Locations
>> Gramps allows  me to enter a new location (+ symbol), but does not allow
>> me
>> to select from previously entered Places (paper with hand with extended
>> index finger not present). Further, a new location entered in this
>> dialogue
>> does not show up in the Places category.
>>
>> If this is how Gramps is supposed to behave, I would suggest modifying it
>> to
>> permit Alternate Locations for Events to be selected from existing Places
>> and to automatically add newly input Alternate Locations to the Places
>> list.
>>
>> Otherwise, what I am doing wrong?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>>
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