Forms Addon - Clear the Data? - Now with Feature Requests!

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So, while the Forms addon bug is being addressed, I did have one question about the Forms Addon.

Is there a way to “divorce” the data from the Forms Gramplet? When I was playing with it the first time on a US Census, I only entered the direct line ancestors. Then I went and tweaked some things about the event in their Person Edit screen. A little later, I decided that I needed to add everyone in the census, which I did, but it overwrote the tweaks I had made.

I didn’t expect that, but after some thought, I do understand the logic. However, is there a way to “clear” the Forms Gramplet of an event? Basically say, I no longer want this event to be able to be open in Forms, pretend I just entered all of this by hand in each persons edit screen?

Because I ABSOULTELY see myself overwriting things on accident.

Hopefully it’s not a full uninstall of the addon (although, can you uninstall addons? It’s not in the Addon Manager, and Adv Plugin Manager only has hide?). Any help would be appreciated!

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Ok, so now that the addon has been updated (thanks SteveYoungs!) I recall exactly what the specific issue was.

You can’t change the date. And so when the census was taken on 16 Jan 1920, but the Forms Gramplet defaults to 1 Jan 1920, every time I tweak the form, it overwrites my date corrections. Also, same with the “Reference” which is actually a citation. Also, having to move via mouse slows down data entry like crazy. So, I submit the following feature requests:

  • Allow us to choose the date. This feels like it might be a bug. Issue 13834

  • Allow us to choose an existing citation. Feature Request 13835

  • Accessibility and Tab order and standard UI movements. Feature Request 13836

    • Use “Enter” to move down the table, i.e., move down to the next cell in the column
    • Use “Tab” to move across the table, i.e., move right (or left with “Shift+Tab”) to the next cell in the row. Nevermind, after restarting Gramps, this is working in the Forms Addon.

Thoughts?

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Census date is not a bug if you look at all UK Census they are on a
single date for reference purposes and very rarely if ever have I come
across one with the actual date it was completed. Everybody knows that
in practice it took a few days to complete the enumeration and sometimes
people appear twice as a result.
US Census are different in that I have seen date ranges on the returns.
So whilst agreeing that being able to change the date might make sense
for most people it would not be necessary.
phil