While looking at the Importer built-ins and add-ons, I wondered how Gramps selected which importer to use for a particular file? Is it by File extension? [image] The vCard built-in plug-in only supports v3.0 but every .vcf I have exported from a modern smart phone has been 2.1 version. Tweaking …

The importer is selected by file extension. The version is read by the importer which will be in a format specified by the file format. For example, in VCard format: VERSION:3.0 and in Gedcom format: 0 HEAD 1 GEDC 2 VERS 7.0.1 I suggest enhancing the existing code rather than writing a new imp…

[image] Nick-Hall: The importer is selected by file extension. The version is read by the importer which will be in a format specified by the file format. Perhaps another Importer Wizard shell could be a add-on Tool? Where users could select alternative Importer plug-ins and/or option? For e…

One can also write an “importer” as a Tool instead of an actual import plugin. For example, I needed to import sources from a csv file. The builtin csv import does not support sources so I wrote a small tool to do that: isotammi-addons/source/importsources at master · Taapeli/isotammi-addon…

[image] kku: so I wrote a small tool to do that This is a nice expansion. (Although it doesn’t solve the lack of Headers for Citation record creation and the Objects having SourceID instead of CitationID.) Do you think that this Source field parsing code could be rolled into the built-in imp…

[image] emyoulation: The vCard add-on only support v3.0 but every .vcf I have exported from a modern smart phone has been 2.1 version. Added a Feature Request for v2.1 support. (with sample .vcf files) 0014071 : add v2.1 format support to built-in vCard 3.0 importer plugin

[image] Nick-Hall: I suggest enhancing the existing code rather than writing a new importer. The existing Gedcom importer will try to import any version together with custom tags the best it can. For Gedcom 7.0 we may decide to use a new parser, but some common code will be needed to detect the…

v2.0.0 of the vCard Enhanced importer/exporter addon vCard versions supported: 1.0, 2.1, 3.0, 4.0 Status: Experimental / proof-of-concept The previous version simply expanded from supporting only 3.0 vCard format to all known versions. Available from the Emyoulation Curated addon collection Anyo…

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emyoulation December 29, 2025, 3:59pm 8

Added a Feature Request for v2.1 support. (with sample .vcf files)

0014071: add v2.1 format support to built-in vCard 3.0 importer plugin

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Do Importers plugins allow fallbacks?

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