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Main view
== Main view ==
{{man warn|Use some extra caution when changing the Title field|The place data found and pushed to update the Place view will depend on the contents of this field. If you change it in inappropriate ways, you could end up with mismatched place data. <br />For example, if the originally active record in the Place view is "Berlín, Usulután", and you manually type in a Place title of "Berlin, Germany" to search, when you find ''and accept'' the Berlin place, your originally selected Place view record for the municipality in El Salvador will be changed to Europe!}}
[[File:PlaceCleanupFind.png|thumb|right|350px|Place Cleanup - finding a particular place title]]
The Main view has several buttons, a 'Title' field, a small 'xx Matches' status, and a 'Choices' or match results list.
* {{man label|Search result places}} list. This area lists the found matches. The user should select the correct match for the place under investigation, and either press the {{man button|Select}} or double-click, press 'Enter' or 'Space' to move to the result/edit screen.
:: There are two columns in this list, the names, and the 'Types' columns. The names are comma separated places in the hierarchy, as found in the local database, or in GeoNames. The 'Type' column shows the Gramps Type, when showing places from the local database, and shows GeoNames types when showing results from the GeoNames search.
{{man notetip|NOTEtip|If you search GeoNames for a place in GeoNames that you is already have in your database, the search results may return some entries annotated with a red strikethrough. This indicates that those places are already enclosed by the current place and cannot be selected. }}
:: The Type column is provide for informational use only, to help the user determine a bit more about the found place. The GeoNames types are not always obvious; the type starts with one of 'A', 'P', or 'S' for 'Administrative place', 'Populated place', or 'Spot' respectively. You can restrict the returned search matches to desired categories with the matching Checkboxes (see below). The remaining part of the type field for GeoNames can be decoded from [http://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html| http://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html], if desired.
* &#x2611;{{checkbox|0man label|Populated}} checkbox. If you check this setting, 'Populated Places' (typically cities, towns, villages etc.) will be returned for a GeoNames search. This setting does not affect a local database search. This is initially enabled, as it allows the search to return what most people expect for a city type search.* &#x2611;{{checkbox|0man label|Admin}} checkbox. If you check this setting, '[[Gramps_Glossary#administrative_division|Administrative PlacesDivisions]]' (countries, states, regions etc.) will be returned for a GeoNames search. This setting does not affect a local database search. . This is initially enabled, as it allows the search to return what most people expect for a county, state, country type search.* &#x274f;{{checkbox|0man label|Spot}} checkbox. If you check this setting, 'Spots' (typically farms, buildings, graveyards, churches etc.) will be returned for a GeoNames search. This setting does not affect a local database search. This is initially disabled, as most place searches don't go to this level of detail.
* {{man button|Help}} button. This brings up this web page.
* {{man button|Find}} button. This performs a search for the place placename indicated in the {{man label|Title}} field. The search is performed in two stages.:** Initially , the local Gramps place list is examined for a match. The local match is only searched among 'Complete' places, those with Latitude/Longitude coordinates and Place Type data filled in. Only the initial segment of the place is used for searching. For example, if you search for 'Paris, FR', and your local Gramps Place Tree data has both 'Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States' and 'Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France', both will be shown. Alternative names in the local Gramps places are also searched.
** The second stage is the GeoNames search. It is performed automatically if the first stage doesn't find any matches. If the first stage did find one or more matches, but none of them were correct, the user can press the {{man button|Find}} button again to do the GeoNames search. Note that the GeoNames search only returns ten results at a time, if the place you want is not in the first set of results, press the {{man button|Find}} button again to see the next ten.
{{man note|NOTE|The 'Find' button changes to 'Find GeoNames' after a local database search where something was found, as a reminder that you can search that database if the local search did not return what you wanted.}}
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