Addon:Deep Connections Gramplet

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Deep Connections Gramplet - example results (with context menu shown)

The Deep Connections Gramplet shows a deep relationship between active person and home person. The Deep Connections Gramplet will find all relationships between the home person and active person, if one exists. Similar to the builtin Relationship Calculator.

Usage

Add the Deep Connections Gramplet to one of the following Category views: People, Relationships, Charts or Geography.

Deep Connections Gramplet - No Home Person set. - message

Make sure you have set the Home Person otherwise you will receive the message: Error: No Home Person set. .

Select another person from the People list view to make them active then change to the Deep Connections Gramplet to see the result of the fist relationship found, then select Pause/ Continue as needed to show additional relationships note that this can take some time, as it thoroughly searches through all relationships. The Deep Connections Gramplet reports the chain of people that form a related connection between the Active Person and the Home Person.

You can Pause/ Continue the Gramplet; the Copy button opens and adds the resulting people to the Clipboard; or even have the Gramplet Continue to attempt to find additional connections and also Clear the result.

Context menu actions

Right-clicking inside the gramplet results (but not on a hotlink) will show a pop-up context menu with the following options:

  • Cut (disabled)
  • Copy (enabled only when text is has been highlighted)
  • Paste (disabled)
  • Delete (disabled)
  • Select All

Hotlink actions

Right-clicking on a hotlinked Person name will shift the Active Person focus to that Person. This also triggers a recalculation of the Deep Connections of the new Active Person to the Home Person.

Left-clicking on a hotlinked Person name will open the Person Editor for that Person.

See also:

Issues

  • When view expanded the display area does not fill the entire window/dialog.
  • 4458 Deep Connections Gramplet does not find all possible paths
  • 6467 Deep Connections Gramplet: Doubly redundant relations