I would love to see Gramps sources and citations be enhanced to something similar to what is used in Family Historian 7 or Rootsmagic. What is used now looks like what was used with PAF before it was discontinued.

Good points, and focus is part of the problem. Most reference managers can write way more variables than currently exist in the Gramps data model for repos, sources, and citation, so reading CSL JSON is not as easy at it looks. That is, because for each of the dozens of potential variables, you have…

It seems like this might be a good opportunity to document how to dip your toe into hacking Gramps. I did beta testing with an Gramplet that took a CSV of known structure, pulled the data in & visualized it. Because the format was known, the developer wrote code that parsed the data directly. (Doi…

I will just say my small opinion, that might or might not be the same of the average user of gramps. I dont care that much about export and import of my three to anything else other than things to have an alternative visual reports or whatver possibly. (dont care about whatever you call reserch pl…

[image] Mihle: putting events under other events I do not understand the intent of an ‘event under other events’. Do you have example how it would be useful? (Or maybe there is a discussion I’ve forgotten & ‘search’ didn’t list.)

[image] emyoulation: I do not understand the intent of an ‘event under other events’. Do you have example how it would be useful? (Or maybe there is a discussion I’ve forgotten & ‘search’ didn’t list.) I dont think any examples was mentoned here but the concept was, maybe in other threads, b…

Yes, I would like to have them too !

So, more like Groupings rather than actual Events? Or more than that? Like a master Event that has a Military Service which an enlistment covering a 4 year span and where any date outside that range is invalid. Sub-events might be: enlistment, mustered-in, training, promotions, a series of deployme…

[image] emyoulation: Or more than that? Like a master Event that has a Military Service which an enlistment covering a 4 year span and where any date outside that range is invalid. Sub-events might be: enlistment, mustered-in, training, promotions, a series of deployments, mustered-out. Yes i…

I think it would likely be best modelled as a Group entity. A group could consist of people, events, places, artifacts. As a top level entity a group exists over a particular time span, there are events and attributes that apply to it as members may come and go and they undergo different experienc…

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