From: Don A. <don...@co...> - 2004-05-21 13:03:04
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On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 06:35, Steve Hall wrote: > o GRAMPS does not support LDS compliance. [Not that I've noticed, > anyway. And is this something we even want to advertise?] GRAMPS does support the LDS extensions. However, it does not support TempleReady. I'm not sure what this means, since I've never dealt with the LDS information myself. > o Reports, charts and web page export format and flexibilities, while > good and recently improved, can always be expanded. Special reports > such as a family birthday calendar are not yet possible. [How about > blank reports?] No blank reports at this time. If someone could define them, we could include them. > o Intelligent merging of information from multiple databases is > minimal. [Honestly, I've never tried this--is this currently an A+ > feature?] Merging is actually pretty good. However, I don't think there is anything such as intelligent (automatic) merging. > o Duplicate person search is immature. [Again, never tried it; true?] Again, this is pretty good, but realistically will never be perfect. GRAMPS uses a weighted rule system to try do determine the odds of two people being duplicates. It looks at dates, common events, similar names, children with similar names, parents with similar names, spouses with similar names, and other data items, assigning a numerical value. If this value is exceeds your threshold (low, medium, or high), it is presented as a possible duplicate. > o Multiple individuals can not be opened at a time. [Dunno if this is > true, I've never tried that I can recall, and I'm here at work on > Windows ATM.] Multiple people can be opened at a time. > o Information can not currently be Drag-and-Dropped between > individuals or databases. Some information can be drag/dropped, such as images. Currently you cannot drag/drop between databases. > o Currently no way to view multiple levels of descendents without > generating a report. [I'm talking about one of the most useful of > features I've ever seen: http://rootsmagic.com/descview.htm. Ok, > maybe this is more of a wish list item for me personally than a > Limitation of GRAMPS. :)] This is something we are adding to 1.1/1.2. Alex and I have already discussed it. We will probably drop the Descendant viewer plugin for a selectable filter which does exactly this. Don |