This 2020 thread has been migrated from Ideas because @kku implemented a feature for sharing a custom filter in the FilterParams (an Isotammi collection addon tool) in July 2025. Recreating a Custom Filters from a multi-stage filter description is a painful and error-prone process. I’ve found that…

Incidentally, the example 5-stage custom filter in the wiki is completely ineffective for its stated purpose. That purpose is to find People who were born or died in a variably selected State. All the sample Events are logged at the city or county level. The filter only finds State level divisions.…

Maybe it would be good to have a tool to facilitate with upgrades. For example, after installing a new version, you could use it to migrate .ini settings and custom filters.

I added the possibility export and import custom filters to my FilterParams addon: isotammi-addons/source/FilterParams at master · Taapeli/isotammi-addons Gramps addons for Isotammi project / Isotammen Gramps-lisäosia - Taapeli/isotammi-addons I hope that thi…

I finally broke out the test box again, re-set to a factory Win10 and installed the new Gramps 6.0.4 AIO so I could test some recent add-on updates. (A barebones system offers a different set of edge-case stresses.) One of the things I was curious about was: how the new 1.2.5 FilterParams version i…

@kku has just posted FilterParams 1.2.7 to the Isotammi Add-ons curated collection . He has refined the Import/Export. It has been tested with XML with <filters> chunks. Designed to exchange the current Custom Filter with any referenced multistage Filters. It works both with and without an XML heade…

Sharing custom filters using FilterParams import/export

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emyoulation August 17, 2025, 11:16pm 6

A section on custom filter Import and Export has been added to the FilterParams README.md

The FilterParams screen capture has been updated in the wiki too.

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Sharing custom filters using FilterParams import/export

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