Vince Administration schrieb: > I think it is really important that the system be able to read and > probably write standard GeD (? files). absolutely ! im- and export > All the geneology programs use this as a flat file database format. I > have collected such data, and > would not want to start adding data from scratch. neither me.
I already entered some data into PAF, which supports im- and export of std-GED files. So that will be a good start. There are also several > (free and not free) programs > that can produce reports. The role I would find useful for PmWiki is to > allow lots of people (in the family, presumably) > to update the data, and of course to examine the reports. > Vince --- I was thinking of how the data could be gathered and how to be displayed. how about that: creating data-pages in pmwiki where the data of one person (etc) will be entered in a rather simple but via form editable mode e.g.: field: value field: value or :field: value :field: very long value :field: value etc At view-time this will set only variables but show nothing so the page-content itself is not displayed directly but the display-job is done by a group-footer-page which displayes the fields in a formatted page. I think such an "pure data-page" can be changed by a form-function more easily and the collected data can be displayed in different ways simply by changing one page: the group-footer-page so a wikipage will turn likely more into a pure data container rather than a formatting page. Within the fields pmwiki-markups could be used t format the field's contents. Ok pmwiki is not the best database considering performance but I think there won't be so much data records to store to get a problem. and we'll have the full flexibility of pmwiki I'll try to get some time at the weekend for some testing but I think I will have to wait a bit (sailing season has begun ! so I think I'll rather be on a boat-tour the next week :-) Knut _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users