Event Reference Editor (default event guessing)

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Running GRAMPS 5.2.4

In the above, 2 issues:

  1. Event Type: comes up Birth, Death order etc (would like to reorder this.)
  2. Description: is automatically filled with text want to stop this

Could someone advise where these functions are set. So I can have a play.
phul

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Apologies for the typos it is late here is my only excuse
phil

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have you looked at:

for Persons:

and for Families:

The EventType list is at:

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An experiment adding a BAPTISM event type to the default_types of personeventembedlist.py expanded the set of pre-fill event types.

However, I do not see any pre-fills of the event’s Descriptions. When does that happen for you?

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Adding an event to a person description takes the form of “Death of
Smith, John Thomas” wondering whether function was removed at some
point and I am just seeing it now on entries I have made previous;y.
phil

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I once experimented with the Extract Event Description tool and have been regretting the waste of storage ever since.

(The tool is misnamed. It does not ‘extract’, it generates/adds a description in a fixed format.
Reports are better because some do this dynamically in both Name Display Format and language.)

Perhaps those tool-generated {event type} of {Surname}, {Given name} descriptions are what is annoying you too?

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That is precisely what the problem was.

After trying it I removed the Addon and of course over time forgot that I had done it

yes very much a waste of storage. A drop down list of Custom Descriptions would be more useful here. Example “DOD (Date of Death) from Probate” is one I use a lot.

phil

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Thanks Brian
personeventembedlist.py now reads

 def default_types(self):
     return [
         EventType(EventType.BIRTH),
         EventType(EventType.BAPTISM),
         EventType(EventType.DEATH),
         EventType(EventType.BURIAL),
         EventType(EventType.PROBATE),
     ]

Not

     def default_types(self):
         return [
             EventType(EventType.BIRTH),
             EventType(EventType.DEATH),
             EventType(EventType.BURIAL),
         ]

Works for me
phil

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Remember to add something to your ‘placeholder’ Person that has all your Gramps customizations that are done infrequently. And all your workflow documentation.

Maybe point to this thread?

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Will do Brian

I also keep the modified/original files
Stored in a folder structure

Gramps_5.2.4_Programs Working
usr_lib_python3_dist-packages_gramps_gui_editors_displaytabs
personeventembedlist

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