Ideas about how Gramps can be improved. Suggest any enhancements that could improve Gramps. Make sure you raise an associated Feature Request.
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## [Fan chart with time scale](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/fan-chart-with-time-scale/336)
Here’s an idea for a new kind of fan chart: it has a time scale. Each person’s box is aligned with the time scale according to their date of birth. The colors distinguish the generations. In this example, which is bas…
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## [Custom GEDCOM records reported as errors \[Provide a better message\]](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/custom-gedcom-records-reported-as-errors-provide-a-better-message/10022)
Simple fix to improve new user experience My suggestion is simple. Add something (ANYTHING!) to indicate that a .ged import has succeeded. In my case, I got a massive list of errors and nothing else, so I kept trying, w…
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## [A simple wish for a field (Place Reference Editor.) Expanded Date field](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/a-simple-wish-for-a-field-place-reference-editor-expanded-date-field/10015)
It’s simple but it would help me. Please make this field wider. Kind regards theBastian
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## [Announcing the Two-Way Fan chart report](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/announcing-the-two-way-fan-chart-report/10038)
In anticipation of a large family gathering next year, I have been looking for a fancy solution to display the complete ascendant and descendant genealogy of one of my ancestor in a quite compact form. I have thus devel…
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## [Announcing "Biography - Complete" quick view report](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/announcing-biography-complete-quick-view-report/10039)
Started a experimental mashup fork of the Biography Quick Report and the Complete Individual Report. (Currently available from my Experimental Addon repo. Filter for EXPERIMENTAL status.) I’ve run out of tokens fo…
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## [Gramps Functional Expansion Ideas](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gramps-functional-expansion-ideas/10011)
Hello All, I am new to the Gramps Dev community and after having looked at the setup requirements that would allow me to pursue what I envision, I am very intimidated. Background: I have “inherited” the custody of my …
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## [Proposal: Note language field](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/proposal-note-language-field/9943)
I often translate my notes (biographies, obituaries, record transcriptions, etc) to a second language. I find myself wanting to limit the notes that show up in exports/reports based on the language I wrote them in. Prop…
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## [Is a Living/Private Blur possible in Views?](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/is-a-living-private-blur-possible-in-views/4424)
Can GTK blur text like it supports Bold, Italics and Underline in the views and Graphs? A blur would be helpful for making screenshots for posting in questions and for making tutorial videos. It is labor-intensive to bu…
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## [New category view oriented around research](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/new-category-view-oriented-around-research/5912)
From the “Roadmap for 5.3” discussion: Apr 4 Yes. Good idea. We should probably start a new topic to discuss the details.
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## [\[Italian privacy regulations\] Partially mask the date of birth and/or death](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/italian-privacy-regulations-partially-mask-the-date-of-birth-and-or-death/9934)
Change birth and/or death date, to comply with privacy regulations (100 years for birth and 70 years for death), for example, birth 1921-10-16, becomes 19..-10-16, and death 2005-06-26, becomes 20..-06-26 Modifica data …
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## [Alternative Deep Gallery?](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/alternative-deep-gallery/9926)
I’ve been using Gramps for many years; my current version is 6.0.8 on a Linux KDE Neon PC, and I’m really happy with it, even though the learning curve was steep. There used to be a third-party plugin called “Deep Galle…
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## [Does this "How to" instruction manual for citations look accurate?](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/does-this-how-to-instruction-manual-for-citations-look-accurate/9904)
Using Gramps 6.0.8 on Windows 10 I have been playing around with Gemini AI, trying to get a sort of “How to” manual for entering data from some of the most common websites, so that I can refer to it as I am filling out …
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## [Autogenerate filename when creating report](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/autogenerate-filename-when-creating-report/9907)
I find that when it comes to creating reports it can be time consuming because each time you have to name it otherwise it will overwrite your existing report. It also leads to confusion. What I’ve seen other programs do…
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## [Clipboard context menus for "ref" objects and exploding place hierarchies](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/clipboard-context-menus-for-ref-objects-and-exploding-place-hierarchies/9895)
Gramps Clipboard & Gramplet Enhancements — Installation Guide Status: Unofficial, experimental patch that needs field testing. This is not (yet?) part of the official Gramps or addons-source codebase. It changes two file…
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## [Simplify the testing of related people targeting](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/simplify-the-testing-of-related-people-targeting/9894)
@Nick-Hall and @dsblank validating what Persons are returned for a chart can be difficult even when working in one’s native tongue. Can you suggest a validation code snippet for designers of new charts (or builders of…
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## [Gramps plugin concept: OCR + name index for large document collections](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gramps-plugin-concept-ocr-name-index-for-large-document-collections/9031)
I have a database with about 14,000 individuals in Gramps. I also have an archive of around 1,700 scanned documents (obituaries, PDFs, images), of which only part are already included in Gramps as sources. I do not int…
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## [Browser extensions](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/browser-extensions/9860)
Two questions about browser extensions: For users who currently upload data from Gramps to WikiTree via GEDCOM – could/should the WikiTree “Sourcer” browser extension be enhanced to pull data directly from Gramps Web o…
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## [Narrated web site last change date on pages](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/narrated-web-site-last-change-date-on-pages/9837)
Running Gramps 6.0.8 on Fedora 44. Narrated web site pages have a line at the very bottom with a time and date of the last change, something like “Last change was the 2023-03-21 13:53:09”. First of all the word “the” d…
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## [Creating a Place - Accept degree symbol °](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/creating-a-place-accept-degree-symbol/9829)
When creating a new Place, there is a field to enter both Latitude and Longitude in the format “latitude, longitude”. It is very useful for pasting the result of a web search. However, most searches give the result deci…
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## [Making event label visible](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/making-event-label-visible/9801)
in person category I can give the person a label and make it visible as a column When I ad an event to the person I can give the event a label but it isn’t visible in the event-list that is in de same layout. \[person-ca…
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## [A more efficient Clipboard-generated custom filter](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/a-more-efficient-clipboard-generated-custom-filter/9790)
Regarding a special case for this: making custom filters from the Clipboard When you select a set of objects in the Gramps objects, one of the context menu options is to “Create Filter from the \