# Relationships screen very busy
**URL:** https://gramps.discourse.group/t/relationships-screen-very-busy/1908
**Category:** Ideas
**Created:** [October 18, 2021, 5:34pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/relationships-screen-very-busy/1908 "2021-10-18T17:34:52Z")
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### Author:  [@moorob](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/moorob)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2021, 5:34pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/relationships-screen-very-busy/1908/1 "2021-10-18T17:34:52Z")
After getting rid of all my other genealogy programs for gramps, I have a small problem with the relationships screen. I have several lines of ancestors with very large families and when I bring them up in the relationships screen, it becomes very busy looking and I have to slow way down to make sure I’m selecting the right icons to edit. How hard would it be to have the screen look something like the way FamilyHistorian 6 and other genealogy software displays a family. Seems it would be much cleaner then a strictly text base screen.
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### Author:  [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/relationships-screen-very-busy/1908/2 "2021-10-18T18:12:33Z")
Let’s start with a reference screen capture. Then you can make some more specific suggestions:
Have you tried:
1. the [Combined View mode](https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Addon:CombinedView) add-on by @Nick-Hall
1. the [experimental Profile View mode](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/experimental-person-profile-view-plugin/1562) by @cdhorn
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### Author:  [@DaveSch](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/DaveSch)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/relationships-screen-very-busy/1908/3 "2021-10-18T18:22:55Z")
Hard to create? Depends on coding ability.
There is a discussion on an alternate view. The code is still experimental and is not available in the 3rd party download; manual install only.
> [@Experimental Person Profile View (CardView) Plugin](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/experimental-person-profile-view-plugin/1562):
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> I have been toying around with an experimental Person Profile [now CardView] View plugin and it is far enough along I thought I would share it publicly now although it is still under development. This started as a Gramplet to teach myself how to work with Gtk and learn some more about the Gramps codebase. It is my hope it might be easier to navigate for newer Gramps users and is obviously inspired by the presentation layer of many of the online sites. For those who might be interested in giving…
As to the relationships view, I too took a while getting used to it; always going back to what I was previously using. Now, I would never go back.
That said, there are some things within the view you can minimize.
In each view there will be a configuration option. 
Three of the options for the Relationships view allow you to not show siblings, show names only, or remove the Edit icons at the end of each person. This will limit the edit to the active person only.
Additionally, on the left side of each family grouping will be a down arrow. These allow you to temporarily collapse the entire family or just the children or siblings. I often do this to help focus on which grouping I am currently working .
Additionally, other users will swear by using other views as their main view and data entry.