Changing default "Source media type" in the Repository Reference editor

ursus · September 27, 2025, 8:54am

The ‘storage facility’ editor presents a default Mediatype of ‘Book’. Can I change the default?
[Sorry if my translation of the editor window is wrong]

emyoulation · September 27, 2025, 9:04am

Does it not remember the last-used Media Type?

Edit: it appears that Repository records default to the top entry in the monitored data types…

github.com/gramps-project/gramps

gramps/gui/editors/editreporef.py

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          )
          
          self.title = MonitoredEntry(
              self.top.get_object("repo_name"),
              self.source.set_name,
              self.source.get_name,
              self.db.readonly,
          )
          
          self.type_selector = MonitoredDataType(
              self.top.get_object("media_type"),
              self.source_ref.set_media_type,
              self.source_ref.get_media_type,
              self.db.readonly,
              self.db.get_source_media_types(),
          )
          
          self.media_type_selector = MonitoredDataType(
              self.top.get_object("repo_type"),
              self.source.set_type,
              self.source.get_type,

emyoulation · September 27, 2025, 9:15am

Ah-ha… here is where the hard-coded default is set:

github.com/gramps-project/gramps

gramps/gen/lib/srcmediatype.py

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          FILM = 6
          MAGAZINE = 7
          MANUSCRIPT = 8
          MAP = 9
          NEWSPAPER = 10
          PHOTO = 11
          TOMBSTONE = 12
          VIDEO = 13
          
          _CUSTOM = CUSTOM
          _DEFAULT = BOOK
          
          _DATAMAP = [
              (UNKNOWN, _("Unknown"), "Unknown"),
              (CUSTOM, _("Custom"), "Custom"),
              (AUDIO, _("Audio"), "Audio"),
              (BOOK, _("Book"), "Book"),
              (CARD, _("Card"), "Card"),
              (ELECTRONIC, _("Electronic"), "Electronic"),
              (FICHE, _("Fiche"), "Fiche"),
              (FILM, _("Film"), "Film"),

ursus · September 27, 2025, 9:16am

This implicates that I need to remember the change and do it again after each update, correct?

emyoulation · September 27, 2025, 9:21am

Yep.

I keep a placeholder Person named “Gramps, customizations” with notes on all the tweaks that I wish to remember.

You can also file an enhancement request in MantisBT.

But the enhancements backlog is so big that it is unlikely to be fulfilled … unless you also work out the PR too.

ursus · September 27, 2025, 9:39am

Thanks. This my very first customization. Am not in to programming in anyway, so no PR.

system · October 27, 2025, 9:40am

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Changing default "Source media type" in the Repository Reference editor

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