Re: [Gramps-users] Reduce importance of the Event description

[Philip W. <wei...@gm...>]

I fill in the description so that I can search for events in the events
view and pick out ones I need. The only way I've found to make dragging to
the clipboard work for events is from that tab. Dragging from events on a
person or family view seems to drop an "event ref" which doesn't work as
well. I still haven't figured out how to make filtering events on
participants work well.

But those descriptions work awkwardly in the narrative web report.  At some
point, I'll probably hack my own version of that report that omits the
description and displays other information about an event.

I also found the generated descriptions are kind of awkward  for a lot of
event types.  They're fine for BMD events, burials, etc.  But don't work as
well for census events, residence events, occupation events (unlike Martin,
I prefer those as events, as occupation changes over time), and others, for
various reasons.  Census ones because there are multiple primary
participants and many individuals have multiple census events.  Any event
where there are multiple primary participants or multiple events of the
same kind seem to not work so well.

I'm not sure what the best solution is.  Just some of the issues I've run
into.

Phil.


On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Martin Steer <mar...@ma...>wrote:

> I used Gramps for some years, and was likewise uncomfortable with the
> description field, whether for redundant or non-redundant information.
> It seems to me that an occupation, for example, is better dealt with as
> a role attribute than as an event with attached description.
>
> One of the other posters mentioned tuning their data to fit the web
> report, which I would caution against. Better to tune the report to
> adequately represent the data.
>
> M.
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