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==Where to store my Quick View==
 
==Where to store my Quick View==
A Quick View is normally a two files in its own directory, that are stored in your ''User'' plugins directory.  Go into your home folder and go to the hidden directory '''.gramps'''. In this directory you will find the '''plugins''' directory. Just add your plugin there, and it will appear within Gramps.  
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A Quick View is normally composed of two files in its own subdirectory, that are stored under your ''[[Gramps_{{man version}}_Wiki_Manual_-_User_Directory|User]]'' plugins directory.  Go into your home folder and go to the hidden subdirectory '''.gramps'''. In this directory you will find the '''plugins''' subdirectory. Just add your plugin there, and it will appear within Gramps.  
  
 
For the terminal users, you can get there as follows:
 
For the terminal users, you can get there as follows:
 
  cd ~/.gramps/grampsxx/plugins
 
  cd ~/.gramps/grampsxx/plugins
  
* See [[Gramps_5.1_Wiki_Manual_-_User_Directory]]
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==Example 1==
 
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Now lets analyse the [[Quick_Views#siblings.py|siblings.py]] file.
 
Now lets analyse the [[Quick_Views#siblings.py|siblings.py]] file.
  
If the user clicks in the quick report menu on your report, the run function is executed with three parameters:
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If the user clicks in the quick view report menu on your report, the run function is executed with the following three parameters:
  
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So, your report received from gramps the database on which to work, the document on which to write, and the person of the object the user is on. For a person quick report, this is a person, for family, a family.
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So, your report receives from Gramps the currently opened database name on which to work, the document on which to write, and the person of the object the user is on. For a person quick view report, this is a person, for family, a family.
  
 
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===Analysis: accessing the data===
 
===Analysis: accessing the data===
Now that your plugin runs, you need to open the database, start the document, access data, and write it out. We do this using the [[Simple Access API|Simple Database API]]. So,  
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Note that we use '''_''' for every string for translation, which comes from the line:
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Revision as of 05:12, 10 May 2020

Quick View context menu on Person Editor

Quick Views (previously called Quick reports but show up in "Available Gramps Update for Addons" as Quickreport) are reports that are available in the context menu's of person, family, etc..

People with limited coding knowledge should be able to make them.

Introduction

Many users want to produce a report quickly for their specific needs, but are hindered by the fact they do not want to learn python fully, nor the intricacies of a complicated program like Gramps.

For them, starting with Gramps 3.0 a tool was constructed: the Quick Views short textual reports that the user can register with Gramps, so they automatically appear in the context menu's.

Accompanying this, a simple database access and simple document interface has been constructed, so as to hide as much complexity as possible.

Where to store my Quick View

A Quick View is normally composed of two files in its own subdirectory, that are stored under your User plugins directory. Go into your home folder and go to the hidden subdirectory .gramps. In this directory you will find the plugins subdirectory. Just add your plugin there, and it will appear within Gramps.

For the terminal users, you can get there as follows:

cd ~/.gramps/grampsxx/plugins

Example 1

Code

Quick View context menu on Person View
Quick View Report example result output

How better than to learn something than using an example?

Here it goes. We want a report to show all siblings of a person.

That is, brothers and sisters from all families the person is part of.

The quick report is then the following:


siblings.gpr.py

You first need a Gramps registration (*.gpr.py) file so create a python file named Siblings.gpr.py and add the following content:

#------------------------------------------------------------------------
# File: siblings.gpr.py
#------------------------------------------------------------------------

register(QUICKREPORT, 
    id    = 'siblings',
    name  = _("Siblings - Example Quick View"),
    description =  _("Display a person's siblings."),
    version = '1.0',
    gramps_target_version = '5.1',
    status = STABLE,
    fname = 'siblings.py',
    authors = ["Your Name Here"],
    authors_email = ["Your @ Email address here"],
    category = CATEGORY_QR_PERSON,
    runfunc = 'run'
  )

siblings.py

Now create a python file named siblings.py and add the following content:

#------------------------------------------------------------------------
# File: siblings.py
#------------------------------------------------------------------------

from gramps.gen.simple import SimpleAccess, SimpleDoc
from gramps.gui.plug.quick import QuickTable
from gramps.gen.const import GRAMPS_LOCALE as glocale
_ = glocale.translation.gettext

def run(database, document, person):
    """
    Loops through the families that the person is a child in, and display
    the information about the other children.
    """

    # setup the simple access functions
    sdb = SimpleAccess(database)
    sdoc = SimpleDoc(document)

    # display the title
    sdoc.title(_("Siblings of %s") % sdb.name(person))
    sdoc.paragraph("")

    # grab our current id, so we can filter the active person out
    # of the data

    gid = sdb.gid(person)


    stab = QuickTable(sdb)
    sdoc.header1(_("Siblings"))
    stab.columns(_("Person"), 
                 _("Gender"), 
                 _("Date"))

    # loop through each family in which the person is a child
    for family in sdb.child_in(person):

        # loop through each child in the family
        for child in sdb.children(family):

            # only display if this child is not the active person
            if sdb.gid(child) != gid:
                stab.row(child,
                        sdb.gender(child),
                        sdb.birth_date(child))
                document.has_data = True
    stab.write(sdoc)

Analysis: registering the report

Let's analyse the siblings.gpr.py file above. We start at the bottom where the report is registered with register. This is the function Gramps will look for in your file. You need to give:

  • name = a unique name: a name Gramps identifies the plugin with, don't use spaces or strange symbols.
  • category = a special constant indicating where the report will be shown. You can use CATEGORY_QR_PERSON to see the report on person editor and view, or CATEGORY_QR_FAMILY to see the report on family editor or view.
  • run_func = the function you create in this plugin and that Gramps will execute when the user selects your quick report in the menu
  • translated_name = the name of the report as it will appear in the menu
  • status = is your report Stable or Unstable. Not used at the moment. On distributing Gramps we only include stable reports.
  • description = a description of what your plugin does. This appears in a tooltip over the menu
  • author_name = your name
  • author_email= your email, so people can congratulate you with your work, or ask for bug fixes...

Analysis: the run function

Now lets analyse the siblings.py file.

If the user clicks in the quick view report menu on your report, the run function is executed with the following three parameters:

run(database, document, person)

So, your report receives from Gramps the currently opened database name on which to work, the document on which to write, and the person of the object the user is on. For a person quick view report, this is a person, for family, a family.

In this example, the function called is

def run(database, document, person):

Analysis: accessing the data

Now that your plugin runs, you need to open the database, start the document, access data, and write it out. We do this using the Simple Database API.

So, the following code:

# setup the simple access functions
sdb = SimpleAccess(database)
sdoc = SimpleDoc(document)

prepares everything. Then we write a title on the document, an empty line under it, and a header, with the title, paragraph and header function:

# display the title
sdoc.title(_("Siblings of %s") % sdb.name(person))
sdoc.paragraph("")

Note that we use an underscore (_) to indicate every string that requires translation, which comes from the line:

from gramps.gen.ggettext import gettext as _

Everything is set up, now we write out the lines with all the siblings, leaving out the active person himself, as he is in the title field!

# grab our current id, so we can filter the active person out
# of the data

gid = sdb.gid(person)

# loop through each family in which the person is a child
for family in sdb.child_in(person):

    # loop through each child in the family
    for child in sdb.children(family):

        # only display if this child is not the active person
        if sdb.gid(child) != gid:
            stab.row(child,
                     sdb.gender(child),
                     sdb.birth_date(child))
            document.has_data = True
stab.write(sdoc)

Here, the easy access classes from the Simple Access API have been used to quickly achieve what we want.

Example 2

A second example can be found in the Gramps code. See all_events.py. In this report, all events for a person are printed, and all events for a family. Two quick reports are hence registered, one for person, and one for family.

Notes

The possibilities are enormous. If you are an experienced programmer, there is no need to limit yourself to the simple database API. Also, if you make a real report, you can at the same time register a quick report with default settings.

See: https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps/tree/master/gramps/plugins/quickview

See also