Gramps-web

Hourglass Chart

This version :christmas_tree: brings another great addition to the chart section: an hourglass chart :hourglass: showing both ancestors and descendants of the person in question. In both directions, the number of generations can be configured and, just like for the ancestor and descendant charts improved in the last release, the chart can be zoomed and panned with mouse or touch gestures. Thanks to geostag for the implementation!

In addition, translations for Danish, Norwegian, and Ukrainian have been updated. Thanks to the translators!

Zoom & pan for charts

For this second release in November, geostag implemented a very useful new feature to all charts – the ancestor chart, descendent chart and fan chart: they can now be freely zoomed and panned, using the mouse, mouse wheel, or touch gestures!

New feature: text recognition

This first release in November 2023 brings a brand new feature: text recognition in media files directly from Gramps Web!

For any image containing printed text, e.g. the photo of a page in a book, click the "Text Recognition" button in the media object view to run optical character recognition (OCR) powered by Tesseract and display the resulting text. For users with editing permissions, a button allows directly saving the recognized text as media note.



Improved feature: show DNA matches

The DNA tab in the person view now shows a table of matches with the number of shared segments, the total size of shared DNA and the size of the largest shared segment. This feature was motivated by the analogous DNA match Gramplet that is [in development](https://github.com/gramps-project/addons-source/pull/578).


Other improvements

Translations have been updated for numerous languages. Thanks to the Weblate community!

This third release in October fixes a minor bug with the new descendant tree view and updates translations for several languages.

The second release in October brings several new features and one bug fix.

Descendant tree view

In addition to the ancestor tree and fan chart views, there is now a third chart view: the descant tree! Just like the ancestor tree, the number of generations displayed can be adjusted and the tree is scaled when it doesn't fit on the screen anymore.

Edit event and place type

So far, the type of an event or of a place could only be chosen when creating the object, but not edited afterwards. Now, both properties can be edited from the UI.

Other improvements

- A bug was fixed where sometimes, when creating a new person without known birth or death dates, an empty birth and death event was created.
- Translations have been updated.

This is the first release in October and it brings a couple of improvements and fixes.

Better treatment of event roles

Previously, event roles could only be chosen on event creation, but the proper default ("Primary" for people, "Family" for families) was not preselected. The proper default is now preselected, plus it is now possible to edit an existing event reference's role.

Name suffixes

Name suffixes were ignored in most parts of the UI so far (284). This is now fixed and the display of names has been unified; it should also more properly handle the display of names with multiple surnames or connectors.

Other improvements

- Fix tree charts being cut off 277
- Add missing translation to date editor
- Translation updates