Adding tags to people based on the content of notes in their events

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So far I can add tags to many people in the “people page” by firstly filtering the people e.g. for “Note” and specifying the contents to be e.g. “familysearch”. I then “CTRL-a” the resulting list and click the tab icon at the top of the page to e.g. set a tag “familysearchTag” on all of these people.

My question is, can I do something similar based on notes in the events of these people?
E.g. If a person has a birth event containing a note with the string “familysearch” - I’d like to set the “familysearchTag” on all persons with such events.

Thanks for any help :slight_smile:

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using Gramps version AIO64-5.1.5-1 Windows

Adding tags to people based on the content of notes in their citations(!) (Person->Event->Citation)
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Welcome!

Yes! After filtering any of the navigation categories; People, Families, Events, Places, etc, you can select all and tag all selected records.

There is also the addon Add/Remove Tag Tool that can batch tag records from any custom filter.

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Thanks for the very quick answer :slight_smile:

Perhaps my question was not clear.

As an example,
I am trying make a filter to list all people having a birth event with a “Note” containing the text “familysearch”.
How make this filter is the question.

(I then do the “CTRL a” (select all in list) and tag the results)

Sorry if this was unclear.

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Okay.

Go to the the Events list and create a custom filter using the rule…

General filters >> Events having notes containing <text>

Then go to the People list and create a filter using the rule…

Event filters >> Persons with events matching the <event filter>

Select this filter in the Custom Filter option in the view’s sidebar filter.

The resulting list will be your desired list.

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Brilliant, thanks! I kept reading about nested filters - now I can see how they are assembled :slightly_smiling_face:

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Filter lesson 2 will cover joining rules with and, or and lets not forget… not.

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You might want to make the Filter nesting more easily inspected. Install the FilterParams expert tool add-on from the Isotammi curated addon collection.

Leveraging multiple curated collections would be easier if you were using Gramps 5.2 with its Addon Manager instead of the 5.2 Gramps version. And 6.0 has reworked a lot of the Filtering code.

Beside visualizing the nested features, it gives direct access to the Parameters for the filter. So if you find some Notes had Family Search instead of FamilySearch, that is a quick tweak instead of the usual drill-down hassle.

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The most recent version of the FilterParams addon tool has the ability to save and share Filters. (I do not know if the 5.1 version has been updated to include that new feature.)

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I’ve been using the “standard” 5.1 filters now for a day or so.
Surfacing info in tags to the Graph View has been amazing…

But now I’m ready to parameterise(!) to save copying and editing (and maintaining) quite so many filters. Also I’m hoping to be able to nest on more “things” - e.g. a “Citation Filter” (not a “Source Filter”)…

I’ll update to 5.2 and see how it goes. Thanks for the tips :slight_smile:

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Install the Isotammi Filter+ set of addon gramplet too. (Its features were rolled into 6.0) They allow you to “scrape” the parameters in the Filter gramplet into a new Custom Filter. So the filters you create for a View can be re-used for exports, reports and tools too.

And the timer feature lets you see whether a filter is taking longer … or just feels like that.

Also, it you haven’t noticed that the Clipboard has a context menu, you’re missing out on one of the quickest ways to create a filter for selected objects.

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