I’m new, OK, and I’d like to ask a question whilst my first impressions are still first impressions. I’ve looked around the panels, read (some of) the help text, scanned this forum. What I thought I could do, and the software would have a panel for, is to enter a bunch of details I have about peop…

Lots of sensible suggestions, Thank you, it all makes perfect sense. I’ll export a person, and then supplement the record and re-import. Great ideas, thanks

A feature request was recently raised to assist new users getting started. I posited that one solution was a reworked “Welcome” gramplet for the Dashboard. I just posted possible amended wording specifically adding sections on entering the first person and one for a new user importing their databas…

How about posting the Raw Text being proposed in fresh discourse thread in Development? Maybe we can tweak the language a bit & add Glossary links? It would be nice to eliminate any passive voice, comma splices & misuse of conjunctive adverbs. And re-arranging to minimize independent clauses and …

Here is what has been worked out so far. Most of the original Welcome was left unchanged. The sections Enter you first Family and Importing a Family Tree are new. The section Getting Started was slightly modified. [welcome] .

One thing I think you should add is the mention of the different Gramplets that simplify the input of data. All the Windows that can be opened in Gramps to add information can be overwhelming for new users, so to mention some of the Gramplets, i.e. “Data Entry” Gramplet, would be helpfull… It is s…

And double checking and trying to reproduce @LHa111 's problem I discovered a major problem. An initial person added in the Relationships view is not automatically made the active person. Have edited that section. I also added a small section on addons. I am trying to add a link to the addon wiki p…

Added the link to the Addon wiki page and moved all of the links as the last entry.

When testing another feature, I discovered some dependency issues. So I’ve added those to my internalized list of dependencies to consider when testing failure modes in a Gramps feature: When Gramps is running, a Tree is not necessarily loaded. If a Tree is loaded, it does not necessarily have a P…

I like the Gramplets (particularly the Data Entry, Pedigree, QuickView & Deep Connections). But downloading/installing 3rd party ones & configuring the sidebar is an advanced topic. If it was a built-in and a default gramplet (in addition to the Filter gramplet) then it’d be less complicated for ne…

Would it be possible to link to the exellent youtube videos made by TechTutorials to? They are up to date and easy to understand, that way new users that maybe not even know what a WIKI is, have something easy to relate to when they first start [image] TechTutorials Need some tech help?…

Simple Starter question about data input - how? - #11 by Nick-Hall - Help - The Gramps Project (Discourse Forum & Mailing List)

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