# Source display vs Source/Citation display

**URL:** <https://gramps.discourse.group/t/source-display-vs-source-citation-display/2516>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Created:** [June 15, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/source-display-vs-source-citation-display/2516 "2022-06-15T19:28:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![GBaynes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/gbaynes/32/20_2.png) [@GBaynes](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/GBaynes)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/source-display-vs-source-citation-display/2516/1 "2022-06-15T19:28:06Z")

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Is it just me who is upset by the Source display and the Source/Citation display inequality. The Source display must be one of the original displays, and the Source/Citation display was an afterthought. The filters created under the Source diplay can be used by other displays, but those created under the Source/Citation display cannot, neither can they be used by programs. It is as though the Source/Citation tree did not exist.  
I prefer the Source/Citation display filters, you can do so much more than in the Source display filters.  
Is there apartheid in Gramps, where nobody talks to the Source Citation diplay?

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**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/source-display-vs-source-citation-display/2516/2 "2022-06-16T03:14:07Z")

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There was a pretty involved discussion about Citations a few months ago.

Everybody want to improve them but a consensus hasn’t been reached. There were definite camps of opinion being dug in.

There will probably some experiments & test balloons. Perhaps some hands-on time will help bring people together.

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**Author:** ![PLegoux](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/plegoux/32/413_2.png) [@PLegoux](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/PLegoux)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/source-display-vs-source-citation-display/2516/3 "2022-06-16T08:18:03Z")

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> [@GBaynes](#):
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> The filters created under the Source diplay can be used by other displays, but those created under the Source/Citation display cannot, neither can they be used by programs. It is as though the Source/Citation tree did not exist.  
> I prefer the Source/Citation display filters, you can do so much more than in the Source display filters.

There are no Sources and Sources/Citations filters. There are Sources filters and Citations filters. It is the latter, which can use Sources filters, which can be found in the Sources/Citations view.

I bypassed some of their limitations, like filtering sources depending on some citations related criteria, with some homemade Supertool filters.

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**Author:** ![GBaynes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/gbaynes/32/20_2.png) [@GBaynes](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/GBaynes)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/source-display-vs-source-citation-display/2516/4 "2022-06-16T12:29:30Z")

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Oh, that’s weird. I would never have thought to look for Source filters in the Citation display.  
Thanks.