# Help creating or altering Individual Report and Family Group Report

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**Created:** [July 6, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/help-creating-or-altering-individual-report-and-family-group-report/2578 "2022-07-06T12:31:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![calicodoll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@calicodoll](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/calicodoll)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/help-creating-or-altering-individual-report-and-family-group-report/2578/1 "2022-07-06T12:31:54Z")

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Gramps AIO64-5.1.5-1 & Windows 7 Ultimate

I would like to alter the “Individual Report” in the following way: I would like events to print as  
DATE DESCRIPTION LOCATION  
The current order appears to be:  
DESCRIPTION DATE LOCATION

On the Family Group Report I would like the Children information for each child to be on one line, omitting location. There would be 4 columns across under the heading of “Children”

Headers would be Sex Name Birth Death and the output would be like this

1F Malvina Gassin 1869 1917

Additional details: I do not need spouse info for children on the family group sheet, but the default report lets you omit this anyway. If you need to see a sample of what I am looking for, I will upload my edited sheets. I could manually edit each sheet, but with 800 people in this branch, that is a lot of changes.

Thank you in advance for any suggestions or replies. Happy Head hunting 🙂

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**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/help-creating-or-altering-individual-report-and-family-group-report/2578/2 "2022-07-08T13:33:22Z")

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There’s a wiki page about how to “[Adapt a built-in Report](https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Adapt_a_built-in_Report)”. This is a starting point for what you want to do.

The first change (swapping field order) should be a simple task & make a good first experiment.

You could ask questions here and the answers will help us improve that wiki article.

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**Author:** ![calicodoll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@calicodoll](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/calicodoll)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 2:16pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/help-creating-or-altering-individual-report-and-family-group-report/2578/3 "2022-07-08T14:16:56Z")

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I did review the section on adapting a built in report. I am not a programmer, just a rocket scientist that couldn’t understand pointers. I figured the first order switching part would be easy, but the code was too difficult for me to wade thru. Thank you for your reply. I will keep looking.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/1X/2ac1e712b7adf612e31ca08a55419f4cf37c0158.png) [@system](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/help-creating-or-altering-individual-report-and-family-group-report/2578/4 "2022-08-07T14:17:19Z")

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Closed on August 7, 2022, 2:17pm UTC

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