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This chapter describes the various {{man label|Tools}} available in Gramps.
== Tools ==
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The tools can be accessed by choosing the menu {{man menu|Tools ->''Tool Section'' ->''Particular Tool''}} .
=== Tool Selection dialog ===
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The {{man label|Tool Selection}} dialog allows you to browse the complete selection of available tools along with their brief descriptions when invoked by clicking the {{man button|Open the tools dialog}} icon on the toolbar from any of the categories and use the {{man button|▶}} arrows to expand the listings.
====<u>Compare Individual Events</u>====
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This tool compares events across the selected group of people.
Once the report finishes the {{man label|Name and title extraction tool}} dialog results window will be shown.
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====<u>Media Manager</u>====
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This tool will list people who are not connected to the selected active person. Connections may include linked in a chain of [[References|references]] or linkages created with the [[Gramps_{{Version manual}}_Wiki_Manual_Gramps_5.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Entering_and_editing_data:_detailed_-_part_2#Link_Editor|link editor in Notes]].
You can use this tool via menu {{man menu|Tools->Utilities->Not Related...}}.
This test tool will create many people showing all different date variants as birth. The death date is created by parsing the result of the date displayer for the birth date. This way you can ensure that dates printed can be parsed back in correctly.
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The {{man label|[[Gramps_5.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Error_and_Warning_Reference#Undo_history_warning|Undo history warning]]}} dialog will be shown and you can either {{man button|Stop}} or {{man button|Proceed with the tool}}.
* Command line usage see: [[Plugins_Command_Line#Generate_Testcases_for_Persons_and_Families]]
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This tool generates sources and citations for each source in order to populate the database for testing with significant numbers of sources and citations.
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