Yesterday, I processed some family correspondence (well, actually an eMail) about health problems that run in the family.
It had what might be common problem: All the points of reference were relative. There were people, places and events that were mentioned in passing with the assumption of common knowledge shared between the correspondents.
The correspondents were all 1st cousins. However, it was forwarded to other family members to raise awareness in other generations… who do not share the same frame of reference.
So I imported the text as a Note and went through to linked the references to People, Events and Families in Gramps. The linking clarified up my understanding and I wanted to ‘improve’ the message before passing it on to siblings and niblings.
My (unwarranted) assumption being that since there was a Note Link report, it probably could be limited to a single Note. So it would probably do something like generate a Footnoted version of the Note. But that is not was it does it all. That report does generates a list of links in a Note. But it is for ALL Notes in the Tree.
The Note Link report did have most of the information I wanted to cross-reference. But required a lot of wading through 27 pages of extraneous information. And it was only enlightening because the IDs for the people had been changed to use our family’s genealogical numbering system.
Perhaps a better filtered Note link report is possible?
You need my ‘Note Report’ see Mantis BT 0013309.
It uses filters and sorts the output.
It worked in 5.1.6 so may need modifying for the latest version of Gramps.
This report could do other things like printing all notes attached to one person. But filters do not exist to work across the View boundaries of all Views.
ie filter 1 defines a a person or group
filter 2 defines the notes applicable to that filter.
Isn’t that what happen about an hour ago by @Callmedave a zip file that has the gpr file update to 6.0 and confirmed to work with Gramps 6.0 with a example of the report attached also. Download the zip file to your user plugins directory and start Gramps to test.
Previous Discourse forum discussion “Print all notes”
I’ve had this Note Report addon manually installed in my 5.2 version for a long time. It IS very useful. Thanks George!
I advised someone on Facebook a couple days ago to use it in combination with the Books feature to make “Introduce the Tree” cover pages for for various reports. (Is Narrative Web report the only report that has options for collateral Note pages?)
Did not recall that it was not yet in the curated collection of addons.
Another part of the equation was to recruiting GitHub docent/shepherd volunteers. These volunteers would shepherd experimental addons to the official addons-source repository. The Gramps-devel maillist thread in June of 2024 used George’s addon as a example of a useful addon that needed help getting through the clogged system. Another example is the interactive Search gramplet by Vantu5z. Neither has made any additional progress towards being published.
Al Stone @ahs3 offered to help with the GitHub process. But requested some guidance (probably someone coordinating as outlined by @codefarmer) in getting started.
H.Gohel
Similar to the addon developer’s wiki, it would be very helpful to have a documentation of the steps to go from a PR being created to code review, PR approval, building, testing and publishing the addons. There’s also the task of merging code back to master branch.
With updates flowing to the Addon Manager again, is it time to find and help publish/distribute some stalled addons? There’s still a starter list of undistributed addons. Maybe @GaryGriffin could publish his Report Samples for new developers? He knows the process (but could pretend he does not) so the volunteer could be interactively trained how to help shepherd. (And maybe help simplify the GiHub process outlined in the wiki. The current process is intimidatingly complex.)
the abilty to specify the text of copyright header line.
an option to append an itemized list of the note’s links (a single-note variant of the Notes Links report content. notelinkreport.py) (The original point of this thread)
Having the ability to specify the text of the copyright message is harder than you’d think.
If you have a text box, once the text is changed, it is impossible to get back to the original.
Better for those who wish a different copyright message to modify the line in the program.
How about a checkbox to turn it off? I am ambivalent about claiming copyright since most of my Notes are not original thought or synthesis. Mine tend to be annotated transcription.
But I am consistently unhappy with the amount of header space is burned with the paragraph formatting. It is a huge font with excessive above/below leading.
Beside, if this report’s output is destined for publication, it will be part of a “Book” of reports saved in Open Document format. Then edited with a consistent footer containing the copyright/copyleft.
An excellent point. I overlooked the Style editor. Had not used it before and took a bit of experimenting to realize that the “default” was not editable and that I needed to create a new style first. (@ztlxltl implements a MUCH more intuitive approach with his FamilyTreeView configuration “Boxes definition” option in the Boxes tab. When you choose to edit a style that is hard-coded, it adds a copy to the “Boxes definition name” and switches the focus of the editor to the new style.)
Hmmm. There is a Gramps Plugin Registration attribute ( plg.report_modes : REPORT_MODE_BKI) to declare Book compatibility. But that makes the Book feature aware of the Report, not make the report aware of when it is running from a Book.
Will have to search the developer docs for features adjacent to that documentation.
Yes, it’s the one that makes the Report aware that it is part of a Book.
I could use it to turn things off that the book wouldn’t want to see, like the Main Title, copyright notice etc.
I’ve posted a new version on the MantisBT 0013309.
I’ve put a flag on the Menu to show it is being used with a book.
It still isn’t picking up the Database owners name for the Copyright message
