Gramps version: 5.1.6 Windows 11
Hello
I have a question what is it
And one more Will my family tree be private? all photo data etc
And one more Will my family tree be private? all photo data etc
It is to mark that data element as “Private”. It allows Privacy restrictions to be graduated.
(The lock in a row of alternate names only affects that name. Locked at a Person level, it affects only that person and their links to secondary objects. I periodically run a SuperTool script that marks all Email addresses in internet tabs as Private… since those are so recent that they must living people … otherwise they will be defunct.)
Privacy is used to filter what can be seen in Reports or for Export. (Options tend to be: omit items so marked, redact:insert a placeholder, ignore the privacy setting.)
Since Gramps is a single-user database, Privacy is mostly ignored in the GUI on screen. (Although you can use it as criteria in a view’s Filter Gramplet)
See Private and Public in the Gramps Glossary
So if the padlock is closed, the person will not be in the reports? and all information on all people is private regardless of the padlock?
Report developers have to respect privacy. Most do but some have options… like ignore privacy, omit private items or redact.
Run tests before before assuming exports or reports handle private/locked data as you expect.
Or whether they present public/unlocked data in the format you expected, for that matter.
who are the authors of the reports
Look at the Addons list. The contact column is the author.
For built-ins, I look in the Python source. The first section has a copyright release notice which will list the author(s).
Since Gramps component locations vary by OS. I prefer to search in the various ‘report’ folders of the GitHub gramps repository’s plugins.
so generally all data is private only the authors can see it even when the padlock is closed but they won’t share it anywhere
Not exactly.
All data is public to the sole-user of Gramps.
Gramps will generate reports or export where the output can omit/redact Private information.
Backups ALWAYS include all tree data and are NOT password protected.
The new Gramps Web fork is another animal entirely where Privacy is concerned.
It is on online multi-user version and has multiple levels and options for privacy protection.
It is new and likely to to have surprises that will have to be patched. Accidental exposures of private data is possible and almost inevitable.
do you know any other free tree making app cool
Serge’s built-in Narrated/Narrative Web Report and the Dynamic Web Report add-on are mature Gramps methods of creating website content. The obvious Privacy issues have been resolved.
There are other Gramps Web Solutions. Betty is one but I have no idea how it deals with private data. Maybe @bartfeenstra can tell us?
Since corporate & government sites spend millions on security and still have exposures, that is why I believe exposures are inevitable.
If you need suggestions for alternatives to Gramps, that isn’t where our expertise lays.
A general genealogy forum will have broader (but still biased) recommendations.
who is the sole-user of Gramps.
Gramps is installed on your local machine. Making you the sole-user … or anyone permitted access to your machine.
Okay… that’s too basic to be a serious question. Closing this thread.
Bye bot
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