Hello, I am a self-taught python programmer and currently a college student majoring in Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence. I have some ideas for updates to the Forms gramplet. Since I am doing a research fellowship this summer instead of an internship I will have some extra time to work wi…

[image] emyoulation: The Isotammi addon gramplet Filter+ has a filtering “Elapsed time” as a feedback mechanism. This is actually perfect for my purposes thank you!.

@OlliL also did some optimization, memory usage and multi-threading tests when enhancing the “Verify the Data” tool for the 5.2 release. His tests and results are interesting reading. And he might be able to suggest some resource usage tests for your Forms enhancement.

[image] RenTheRoot: I’m also thinking, however, that in order to give users the most control possible over their file, that I may not necessarily want to cause the opening and closing of the forms gramplet to trigger the creation of these brand new events even if the user has activated the event…

[image] Nick-Hall: You need to be aware that if a participant of an event has a role other than Primary or Family, they will not show up in all reports. I actually didn’t know about this! I will add this and the ASSO tag information to my “To look into” list. Also quite glad they have added …

Another quick update: I think i’ve got the basics down for how I want the menu layout: [image] [image] Basically every form can be selected, and the right side panel is updated to match. The side part will be populated automatically with whatever tags are in the xml form. These will have a spot …

What would be really useful features on existing Form Addon The Reference: which in my case becomes the Citation could be produced by Concatenating the Attributes such as Piece, Folio, Page, Household Schedule Number these would have be selectable for each census as there are changes over time T…

[image] RenTheRoot: These will have a spot for each attribute where the user can choose if they want to map that field to an event type. Yes. That should work well. Sometimes two attributes may map to the same event. Place of Birth and indirectly Age may map to a Birth event for example. D…

[image] comeng: The Reference: which in my case becomes the Citation could be produced by Concatenating the Attributes such as Piece, Folio, Page, Household Schedule Number these would have be selectable for each census as there are changes over time Perhaps the user could define a format …

[image] comeng: The Reference: which in my case becomes the Citation could be produced by Concatenating the Attributes such as Piece, Folio, Page, Household Schedule Number these would have be selectable for each census as there are changes over time I like this, I will probably incorporat…

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You might want to include the Census check quickview report in your toolbox too. It may require some registration tweaks to make it compatible with whichever version of Gramps you are using.

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Plans to Update Forms Addon Over the 2024 Summer

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