In Gramps desktop is a “Addresses” menu for every person. Unfortunately, I could not find that menu in Gramps Web. Am I overlooking something? If that menu does not exist in Gramps Web, what is the proper way to add addresses and phone numbers in Gramps Web at the moment?
Hi,
it’s one of the few things that cannot be edited from the UI yet. See the long standing feature request: Allow editing addresses · Issue #36 · gramps-project/gramps-web · GitHub
Personally, I’ve simply been too lazy to add it as I don’t find addresses very useful (compared to residence events). But a contribution would be highly welcome. It’s not difficult to implement.
Thanks for the info. I’ll see when I have time to dig into the code and add that addresses feature.
But for now: What would be your recommended way to add phone numbers without having the addresses menu?
Gramps for Desktops has been considered the “feature complete” editor. (Although the Gramps Web has begun to exceed the original in certain areas.)
For attributes/properties that cannot be edited in the Gramps Web GUI, you should keep a Desktop database sync’d with the Web database. Add the data in the Desktop GUI and push the changes.
However, you’re talking about the kind of data that is for living persons. And there are a lot of privacy concerns (and legal liabilities) related to exposing such data in a hosted database. This is something you should not do lightly.
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I agree using Gramps desktop would be the best solution, alternatively you could store it in an attribute or note.
Concerning privacy - of course you’re right @emyoulation, but that applies to all genealogical data (especially of living people), and storing is not the same thing as exposing.
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Thanks @emyoulation and @DavidMStraub.
It doesn’t make sense to use Gramps for Desktop in my setup, because we have dozens of people that are working together in Gramps Web. So what I need for now is just a workaround for the missing adresses tab.
I will go for attributes or notes for phone numbers for now and move them to the addresses section via a little script when I implemented the addresses feature.
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Nice! I wonder what level of stress testing has occurred for Gramps Web concurrent users and editing?
@DavidMStraub Do you have a way of collecting any stats on Gramps Web installations? e.g., maybe Gramps Web has an Addon Manager and can offer a monthly statistics Report of Users and their activity?
Not right now. I was thinking of adding some statistics telemetry, but it would definitely have to be opt-in. The docker image shows 500,000 pulls in the 30 days but I’m not sure how meaningful that is.
In any case, we’re about to hit 400 Github stars! webtrees has 462 at the moment. That makes Gramps Web #6 of all repos tagged with “genealogy” on Github (#1 is Gramps of course!).
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@emyoulation We have over 800 living members in our family foundation founded in 1485 and over 8000 people in the family tree 
I am very excited if Gramps Web can handle that. The future will tell. One day when I have access to the old XML data for our family tree I’ll try to write a script to import all that in Gramps 
@DavidMStraub I just gave the repo star Nr. 400. Outstanding Work! Thank you very much for your effort!
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