Re: [Gramps-users] Including persons in chart based on tag value

[doug <do...@o2...>]

On 01/02/13 23:12, Chris Kinata wrote:
> Hi…I have a tree of ~700 people, and I would like to print a
> ‘focused’ descendant chart containing
> only a subset of the people I want to highlight. Thinking
> presently that it would be cool to
> be able to assign a certain tag to only the chosen few, and
> then filter for that tag in a Descendent
> chart. In this case, the resulting chart would consist of
> about 40 out of 700 people, which
> I could save as an SVG file and then play with the SVG
> graphics in Inkscape or similar.
>
> Is this possible? Or is there some other way to achieve this
> result? The only other options
> I can think of at the moment are:
>
> 1) To copy the entire tree, and then in Gramps delete
> everyone but those I want.
>
> 2) Generate the entire chart of ~700 as an SVG file, and
> then in Inkscape manually delete the ones I don’t want.
>
> Both methods are suboptimal because they aren’t repeatable,
> and are defined negatively (i.e., require
> in this case ~660 actions of deletion).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Chris
>


I had a very similar problem with a larger database, trying 
to prune a descendant chart to show ancestors of my near 
relatives without so much branching that the graph becomes 
incomprehensible to them.
This below worked for me:

(1) Tag the direct ancestral line up from your living 
relative, call it say, LINE 1. If you want only 40 people or 
so to be shown, you'll probably only have 5 or 6 people to tag.

(2) In Person Filter Editor, create a filter, say "trunk" 
which consists of People with the <tag> Tag:="LINE 1"

(3) In Person Filter Editor, create a new filter, say 
"stripped tree" which consists of
     Children of filter match Filter name:="trunk"
     Spouses of filter match Filter name:="trunk"
     Siblings of filter match Filter name:="trunk"
"At least one rule must apply"

(4) Reports=>Graphs=>Relationship Graph=>Report 
Options=>Filter "stripped tree". Save as SVG

HTH

Doug