Addon:SetPrivacyTool

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The Set Privacy Tool allows you to manage the privacy status of people, events and media from the year range that you select.

Items marked as private can be hidden in Gramps e.g. in report generation or ignored e.g. when exporting the database.

Usage

• Select Menu Tools > Family Tree Processing -> Set Privacy Tool...
• From the Undo history warning dialogue you can choose Stop or Proceed with the tool.

Option tab

Ambiguity is subject to penalties with automated mass updates This tool is selective but not intelligent. It does exactly what it is told to do... even when that is a really bad choice. Also it does not use the Probably Alive Proxy calculation. It uses the Birth year when filtering Person records. So the dates of any other items in the Person's timeline (other Events, defining life events of offspring, siblings, or parents) are not considered. You may want to provide some better direction by using the Calculate Estimated Dates Tool addon to estimate a Birth year.

Set Privacy Tool - Option dialog

The Option tab is displayed with the following:

• Years:
  • numeric text box with -+ buttons
    The number of years (counted backwards from today) which should be excluded from being updated.
  • Always private if no date.
    If selected, any objects without a valid date will also be updated.
• Person Filter:
  • Entire Database ▼ (default)
    Pull down menu to select any Person custom filter.
  • Persons
    If selected, only Person objects with a birth date in the given time range (Years) will be updated.
• Event Filter:
  • Entire Database ▼ (default)
    Pull down menu to select any Event custom filter.
  • Events
    If selected, only Event objects within the Years range will be updated.
• Media Filter:
  • Entire Database ▼ (default)
    Pull down menu to select any Media custom filter.
  • Media
    If selected, only Media objects within the Years range will be updated.
• Internet type filter:
  • Entire Database ▼ (default)
    Pull down menu to select a specific Type of Internet record:
    • All (default)
    • Unknown
    • E-Mail
    • Web Home
    • Web Search
    • FTP
  • Internet
    If selected, only Internet records of the selected Type will be updated.
• Addresses
  • Address
    If selected, any Address records within the Years range will be updated.

Once you have made your choices, you can either choose Close or Execute to apply the change.