Re: Advice on making a table

On 24/01/2022 22:57, John Sibert wrote:
> I would like to build special tables in which the columns are People 
> and the rows are Dates. Each cell would contain the details of events, 
> ie Type, Description, Age and Place, where available. The purpose of 
> such a table is to track the movements of seceral people through their 
> lifetime to see how and when they interact to form a family, and in 
> some case, to dismantle a family.
>
> I have done this manually for selected People, but it is tedious and 
> prone to errors. Realistically, It should be automated, because it 
> would be necessary to rebuild a table multiple times until it comes 
> right. I suppose the output could be a Text Report, a file that could 
> be imported into a spreadsheet (although I tend to eschew spreadsheets 
> if I can), or both.
>
> So, my question is whether there is a way do accomplish this using 
> Gramps? I'm not shy about programming and  know a bit of python and C++.
>
> Any advice would be gratefully received.

The best approach would probably be to write a report.

Have a look at the Complete Individual report as an example:

https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps/blob/master/gramps/plugins/textreport/indivcomplete.py

You can write your own reports.  See:

https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Addons_development

Let us know if you need any help.


Nick.




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