In a number of areas I now see only the Place ID not the Place Name as previously the Title used to appear at the top of the Place Window but you could not edit it now however it becomes an editable box. However all my system, custom Forms and reports are based on Place Name not Title how do I rev…

You probably need to set Automate Place Format as shown here in Preferences: [image] I switched my Gramps to English to get this window in English, but apparently the format definition is stored with a localized name, so you see ‘Volledig’ here. You will probaly see something like ‘Full’.

[image] comeng: Automate Place Format is unchecked To generate place titles automatically, you need to have this option checked. The place title field should be empty except for users who continue to use the legacy functionality.

[image] comeng: useless duplication Place Title is not a duplication when employing the Hierarchical Place Tree. If you’ve chosen to stay with a flat place model, it isn’t very useful. Since the Title format can be changed, it offers a great deal of flexibility in Reports and export of view …

One weird thing I have noticed: When the automatic place title format is on if you have a place that its two names you have given it is “to 1931” and “from 1931” the title shows up as “?” in title of place edit and on the map with all places showed, but if you then add an random name(“Test”) with n…

[image] Mihle: When the automatic place title format is on, if you have a place that has two names where you have given one “to 1931” and the other “from 1931” then the title shows up as “?” in title of place edit. And on the map with all places showed. But if you then add an random name(“Test”…

[image] emyoulation: Just to verify a critical but utterly counter-intuitive data entry detail related to Date ranges for Place Names… Did you set a Date Range for the Preferred name of the Place? The date ranges are only displayed for the Alternative Names, not the Preferred. [image] Hopefu…

The date modifiers you should use are… from <date> to <date> after <date> before <date> Gramps uses the ? when it cannot find a valid option. [image] Mihle: While it shows up as I would expect it to be if there is a event with no date, it picks whatever is covered by year 0 (I belive that is …

This looks like a bug in the __get_latest_date location utility function. It need to be updated to support open spans. Please open a bug report. I’ll fix it for v5.2.1.

@Nick-Hall A question about the date used to calculate the Place Title in the “Place Editor” Titlebar… Normally, the appropriate Place title is going to be determined by the active Event’s date. But there’s no (active) Event associated with the Place Editor. Does it fallback to today() when there…

It will use the latest date defined. So for Shicheng it will build the title based on 1959.

Place Title in 5.2

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Place Title in 5.2

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