How make an exact search by name, surname

[emyoulation]

@trlvn

Because this is such a common activity, I really think simplicity is the key. What do you think?

I’d think that you’d want this “live matching” built into a Data Entry for a new person too.

While you’re entering a new person, Gramps tells you what possible people already exist and might save you from creating a duplicate.

And you’d want some fuzziness in the search too. But the old-fashioned SoundEx is only good for English names, not so much for other languages with accented unicode letters. So Double Metaphone or Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching would give fewer false positives.

[Urchello]

@emyoulation

I suspect that the biggest hurdle for @Urchello (and possibly @SiberianMongoose ) learning to use them is that the interface puts too many clicks & dialogs between action and results.

Exactly. I can use both regex and custom filters, but clicks number and spent time are very important when you make something every day and many times per a day.