Say I want to make all my “reserarch” notes private. Is there any way I can do it other than editing them one by one?

The script was REALLY easy to adapt. Here, I’ve gone into the Notes category and created a Custom Filter for “Source Note” type Notes. (Using the Example.gramps tree, this filtered to 2 of that tree’s 19 Notes. Always learn a new technique using a fresh import of the Example.gramps file into a new…

Set up a Custom Filter that finds all the “Research” notes. If it was a Person, Event, or Media; then you could have used the Set Privacy addon tool (Tools → Family Tree Processing → Set Privacy… ) with that filter. [image] Instead, you will probably need to build a script for the SuperTool addo…

[image] emyoulation: If it was a Person, Event, or Media; then you could have used the Set Privacy addon tool (Tools → Family Tree Processing → Set Privacy… ) with that filter. You might ask @Mattkmmr if he would expand his Set Privacy tool to handle Notes too. When someone had a similar inq…

Thanks for the info and the links. I’m not a technical user, so unfortunately writing a script is not an option for me. I have a small DB, It doesn’t take much time to change manually all my notes, so is not really a problem in my case. I simply assumed that this kind of batch editing was possible …

The only line that’s vital in the script above is: [statements] note.set_privacy(True) All the rest is about feedback & double-checking myself.

I think if you change note by obj that script will be available in any category

Thanks again, I’ve done the job manually already, but I’ll keep on eye on this thread if I need to do this in the future.

[Gramps SuperTool script file] version=1 [title] SuperTool-Set Privacy [category] [initial_statements] # SuperTool-Set Privacy.script : A simple script to change the Gramps Privacy "padlock" of View objects to locked # Completely without error handling. Make a backup before running # discussion:…

Since this thread was written, a SuperTool extension (getargs.py or GetArguments) has been added to allow User selectable input to offer a pop-up list or checkbox in addition to a type-in textbox. So now there is a Checkbox that lets you Set Privacy if selected, and Clear Privacy if deselected: […

@kku Can such a script be made to work in ANY category? Every time that I save a Script as a Note, it sets the blank universal [category] back to the current category. We’ve spoken before about documenting an example of wrapping a SuperTool script in an Addon Tool. This seems like a good opportun…

Every time that I save a Script as a Note, it sets the blank universal [category] back to the current category. Yes, Supertool always sets the category as the current category when saving a script. This is a design mistake - Supertool should support multiple categories better. Note however, that …

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emyoulation April 23, 2023, 5:55am 3

You might ask @Mattkmmr if he would expand his Set Privacy tool to handle Notes too. When someone had a similar inquiry about setting Event privacy en masse, he knocked out a very quick and powerful enhancement to his Set Privacy tool.

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