Is there a way to dump the options used to export a chart from the UI to support automating their generation from the CLI?

The are saved in .ini files in your Gramps user directory .

The report options/configurations are stored in an .xml file rather than as an .ini file. (Probably to facilitate including a particular Report’s options using the Books feature.) The 3 XML files stored in the top level of the Gramps User Directory are: recent-files-gramps.xml report_options.xml t…

Got it. Yes. However, is it possible to feed these back into Gramps in order to regenerate reports with the same parameters for later versions of the data? There appears to be no references on the Internet, no Gramps command-line parameters, and no report options that suggest a method to do this.

[image] dsoprea: Gramps command-line parameters See here . Is that what you mean? Also, sorry, my earlier comment about .ini files was for the views and charts in the GUI, not the reports. Thanks @emyoulation for clarifying.

[image] dsoprea: However, is it possible to feed these back into Gramps in order to regenerate reports with the same parameters for later versions of the data? Repeating a configuration a Report is one purpose of the ‘ Book ’ feature. The typical use is to create a collation of reports that yo…

[image] emyoulation: Gramps remembers the last reconfiguration of options for each report unless you restore a Gramps backup file in a new database, filters you may have defined could be lost, save them somewhere

Filters are always in $HOME/.gramps/gramps51/custom_filters.xml on linux

I don’t speak about filters themselves but their definition in Books. If you change the database, filters in books are probably not the one you choose initially in the previous db

Dumping the options used to export a report from the UI

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PLegoux March 12, 2023, 7:27pm 7

unless you restore a Gramps backup file in a new database, filters you may have defined could be lost, save them somewhere

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Dumping the options used to export a report from the UI

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