Using v5.2.2; temporarilly using macOS 13 (as can‘t install any newer) until deciding on a Linux distro.
I have been for quite a few years using Reunion 9, which is not the latest version. I want to get away from Apple stuff, partially as my computers are old so need a Linux distro as increasingly online applications can‘t be updated, but also as i have to use a reverse firewall to block the spyware that tries to escape including from the OS itself!
On experimentally importing from Reunion intoto Gramps i have noticed that the places can be entered hierarchically rather than the usual western separating by commas from lesser to greater, which puts unrelated places in an illogical order—in Reunion i have places set to be in a reverse order, that way i can know in geographical alphabetical order of places (effectively hierarchical, but still in the same format) where all events occur. So, as the import into Gramps gives the places separated by commas this giving no geographical alphabetical order to where events occur as given above, is there an easy way to change all of the comma-separated places to the hierarchical ordering as is possible in Gramps? I suspect that in Gramps if starting from scratch this is how one would enter places, example: Country > County > Settlement/Town/City > Neighbourhood > Road/Street > Streetnumber &c. I have altered one to this.
Otherwise, it is going to become a horrendous task to change them all!
The generate hierarchy (in reverse order) builds the hierchy while being smart enough to leverage duplicate enclosing level instead of making duplicate.
And, if duplicate hierachical levels are created, the automerge feature of the Multimerge add-on gramplet can cleans those up
The Multimerge grampet is in the Isotammi collection of addons. You need to add that to your Addon Manager projects list.
I add their project as labeled with Isotammi project on GitHub
at the URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Taapeli/isotammi-addons/master/addons/gramps52
Oops. My mistake. Both are Gramplets that with be available in the sidebar of the Place category views. .Use the Gramplet Bar Menu to add or remove a gramplet.
after installing the addon, any addonTools are available :
1) on the Tools menu, or
2) from the Tools icon on the toolbar
Under ’Expert’ it turns out that i already have it installed! however, neither Place Update nor Multimerge appear in the Tool Selection, which includes an Isotammi Tools category, even after restarting Gramps: am i looking in the wrong place?; is this a macOS problem?
Yes, the reples above have been updated. They are Place category Gramplets, not “Tools” (Despite the “Place Tool” name.)
These gramplets are category specific. They will not appear in the Gramplet Bar Menu of any sidebar but Place category views.
Illustration below shows the bottombar menu in the People category. Use the gadget highlighted in the sidebar instead and in the Place category. (It will work in either but the layout fits in a vertical space better than a horizontal one.)
I think that it looks different as already populated, and i’m looking at the Places bit. Made a mistake also, as i’m using macOS 10.13 not 13. Looks the same as your screenshot, the menubar is of course not in the app window. I suspect that on Linux it might conform to the global theming.
Experimenting, and getting the US in Scotland! (I have relatives all over the world on one side, the other side is Athabaskan.) It does work, i just need to master it…otherwise there could be another revolution LOL. Fortunately the primary data is still in Reunion, so i can easily create another Gramps import after messing it up…of which i‘m actually doing splendidly.
Will download the wikis on this, although i‘m not the best at following instructions being a dyslexia problem.
Another thing that i like about Gramps is the different calendars.
