# Two problems with places in Narrative Web Site

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**Created:** [May 12, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/two-problems-with-places-in-narrative-web-site/7671 "2025-05-12T03:25:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Urchello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c4cdca/32.png) [@Urchello](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Urchello)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/two-problems-with-places-in-narrative-web-site/7671/21 "2025-05-16T12:57:10Z")

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My thought is:  
If GRAMPS allows such a places structure (or something other), and even more such a structure can actually exist as a normal behavior in the World, then export tools should not impose additional restrictions on it.

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**Author:** ![SNoiraud](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/snoiraud/32/72_2.png) [@SNoiraud](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/SNoiraud)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/two-problems-with-places-in-narrative-web-site/7671/22 "2025-05-16T15:54:03Z")

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> [@jacrider](#):
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> How are you building the index?

The index of pages is the most complex page in the narrative web.

I’m trying to explain how the narrative web works:

1. Either you use a filter or the complete database.
2. In any case, the report must know what we are going to display. This is to avoid 404 errors.
3. For this the report uses dict indexed by name or handle.
4. it works correctly for all pages except places pages. Why?

- The name of the location depends on the format you use in the preferences.
- We may have alternate place names depending on the dates.
- For alternate names to work, we have another dict based on names. For this, we cannot have several identical names.

For the moment, the best solution should be to add the gramps-id of the place. But will it work for all cases ?

I’ll put the first version of my patch into the bug report.

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**Author:** ![jacrider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@jacrider](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/jacrider)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/two-problems-with-places-in-narrative-web-site/7671/23 "2025-05-16T20:06:55Z")

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I will give the patch a try.

There is apparently something different between the places index and  
other indices in the narrative web report. The indices I usually build  
are Individuals, Surnames, Families, Places, Sources, Media, and  
Updates, and recently I have started playing with Heatmaps. I do not  
expect duplicates in Surnames, Sources, Media, and Updates, but there  
are certainly duplicate names in the Individuals index as well as  
duplicate names in the Person field in the Family index and duplicates  
of nearly all families in the Family field, one entry for each partner.  
I realize alternate names and date ranges for places complicates things  
for them, but duplicate names alone cannot explain the problem if it  
works for other indices.

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**Author:** ![jacrider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@jacrider](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/jacrider)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/two-problems-with-places-in-narrative-web-site/7671/24 "2025-05-16T20:52:32Z")

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I just tested the patch and it fixed the problems with duplicate names  
for the places I checked. I still have a problem with places enclosed  
by both Washington state and Washington territory, but I think I can fix  
that by cleaning up the data now that I have a better understanding of  
how things work, because it did work for Arizona state and Arizona  
territory.

Thank you,  
Allen

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**Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/two-problems-with-places-in-narrative-web-site/7671/25 "2025-06-15T20:53:05Z")

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