I was wondering if there is a way to allocate a set TAGS for all new people loaded into GRAMPS?
I often load the children of parents by loading just the Name and year of birth and death that you can see when looking at the Ancestry.com page for the parent. I would like to be able to tag all these children with a tag TBC (To Be Completed) so that I can quickly find them.
I know I can manually tag them but was just wondering if it can be automated as I am sure I will miss manually loading the tag.
But there is a similar feature that only affects imports. (Enhancement Request 0013057 to ‘make “add default sources” apply to any import type’ has been created.)
In the General preferences tab, the Add default source on GEDCOM import and Add tag on import checkboxes cause each new object to be tagged and/or sourced with a timestamp. (To my way of working, a Citation would have had more utility than a Source.)
Perhaps this preference could be extended to any (except the citation/tag itself) newly created object? Or even to modified objects?
I often work with the same reference material when entering data during a session. (It might be an eMail or conversation. Or it might be a microfilm or book. Or it might be a webpage on Ancestry.) So it would be useful to have new object ‘painted’ with a particular tag/citation until I tell it to stop.
Since editting the tag/citation will update all referenced items, it would be less intrusive if such a feature brought up the Tag/Citation Object Editor after ending the painting. It could be created with a Timestamp placeholder label. Then a proper attribution is refined when you know the range of pages that were actually covered during the transcription session.
After you add some people, sort the People view by Last Changed (you might first need to configure the view to show this column, if you haven’t already). Then select all of the recently added people, and tag them all at one go.
I work the other way around. All new people have no TAGs. The tags are added when some action has been taken. Easy to create a filter to exclude records that need no further action.
