Here’s one thing that’s always given me trouble. When adding an event, Gramps tries to be smart and automatically sets the event type, either to BIRTH, DEATH, or BURIAL, depending on what events have already been added. Often, when intending to add an OCCUPATION, I forget to change the event type, a…

You might try forking the Data Entry Gramplet & giving it a 3rd (& 4th) configurable Event row for its form layout. You could every convert the existing labeled Birth & Death rows to the typical Event Type text field (with pop-up) but have those with defaults. [imag…

How do you give a 3rd and 4th event type? Les

Hans is an experienced Python coder who has already developed some add-ons. (His Cosanguinuity Gramplet has idling in peer review since August and his Tangled Web is a set of tools for publishing Gramps data on a self-hosted WordPress site.) Hans would have to hack the source code to expand it for …

Hi Brian! I’m not really interested in the data entry extensions. I’m too set in my current workflow, and I’m not sure how much faster I can get with that extension. There are always some details that need special handling, such as witnesses, and I’ve become quite adept at dragging and dropping to/f…

Personally I like the suggested event as it usually follows the next expected event. If I’m adding an occupation, I add it in Notes.

Yes, the “birth, death, burial” defaults work most of the time for me too. But it almost never is appropriate that it goes back to “Birth” if all three exist. So even a longshot guess of the next Event type would be right more often. However, most often when doing transcription from a particular s…

For me, I normally start with BIRTH and DEATH events when adding a new person. Once those are there, the default becomes BURIAL, which is rarely what I want from then on for that person. Probably the most common event type for people in my database is OCCUPATION for the males, and RESIDENCE for fem…

[image] ukulelehans: Probably the most common event type for people in my database is OCCUPATION for the males, and RESIDENCE for females. Perhaps for you, but not for me. It’s relatively easy to change the event type. Why do you want to create a very complex algorythm ? Relax. We have tim…

On a somewhat related point, I’m now working through fixing another problem in my data: OCCUPATION events with a blank description field. Yesterday, I spent an hour fixing problem events, and I still have more than a hundred events to fix. This means going back to the original source document and l…

Be interesting if there was a sanity check functionality where you can define the Rules for Sanity. I think they are hard coded now. About the only places I’m aware of Sanity Checks upon commit is warn on unknown Gender and the Child to Parent relationship. (There are validator for Date & GPS CSV e…

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