In the Demo of Gramps Web, I tried exploring the Blog feature.
Even after following the empty Blog suggestion that a new Source need to be marked with a tag labeled: Blog, the next step was unclear. Is the Blog entry a Note under that source? Or a Note in a Citation? Does the Note also have to be tagged? And after the tag is added to make something eligible to use for the blog, there seems to be another button to click to actually publish.
I also found Gramps Web to be unaware when the Note is updated. The Blog did not show the revised Note. Did I need to republish the Note to the Blog?
My thought was that it would be appropriate to have a sample Blog entry in the example.gramps file. Where the visitor was given a suggestion for the Home Person with a link to them. And perhaps a couple more links to example data that illustrate interesting features… like the map overlays, historical maps or DNA data.
My 1st impression of the Blog implementation is that it is too difficult to publish and revise.
Yes, of course a dedicated blog editor would be nice.
But did you check the documentation? Use the blog - Gramps Web
And I agree 100% we need a better example database. Since that doesn’t require programming skills, any Gramps Web user could volunteer to contribute.
I had not found that. Thank you.
But the cascade still seems wrong.
The “Blog” tagging the Source seems logical. You could name the Blog with the Source title and use the Author as you do now. But individual entries would work better from Citations (and Citation Notes) of the Source, rather than from the Source notes.
This would allow date sorting of the Blog Entries using the structured Date of the Citation and Titling blog articles via the Vol/Page. And you could use the Citation’s Private flag to publish and withdraw blog entries
But one more level of nesting will make it even more complicated. Besides, the feature was introduced years ago, so we need to stay backwards compatible.
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