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As long as any database is open, GRAMPS Gramps is focused on a single person usually referred to as an Active Person. This allows you to view or modify the data concerning this person, his or her immediate family, etc. Navigating in the database (i.e. moving from person to person) is in fact nothing else but changing the Active Person. This section describes many alternative ways to navigate through the database using both the complex and the convenient interfaces GRAMPS Gramps provides. All these ways eventually accomplish the same thing, but some are more convenient than others, depending what you are doing in GRAMPS Gramps at the moment. 

In addition to this, GRAMPS Gramps provides an extensive set of keyboard navigation options. The detailed reference to the key bindings is found in the [[Gramps_3.3_Wiki_Manual_-_Keybindings|append-keybindAppendix B: Keybindings reference]].

To set the Home person, first navigate to that person using any method you like. Then choose ''' the People category and select the menu {{man menu|Edit ->Set Home person ''' Person}}. Once this is done, you can move to the Home person from anywhere in the database by simply clicking the Toolbar {{man button|Home}} icon on the toolbar. You can also choose ''' the menu {{man menu|Go ->Home ''' from the menu }} or select {{man label|Home}} item from any context menu available on the right clickor use the keyboard shortcut {{man key press|Alt|Home}}.

GRAMPS Gramps also features a powerful set of history-based navigation tools. These tools are similar to those commonly used in web browsers.  They include {{man label|Back}} and {{man label|Forward}} items available from the {{man label|Go}} menu, context menus (available in People, Family, and Pedigree views), and the toolbar buttons. They also include the list of the recent selections available under the {{man label|Go}} menu that allows you to jump directly to any of the recent selections. Finally, right-clicking on the {{man button|Back}} and {{man button|Forward}} toolbar buttons invokes the popup menu with corresponding portion of the history. Select any item from the menu to jump directly to it.

You Similar to setting the Home person, you can manage your bookmarks by choosing ''' bookmark other people from the database to simplify further navigation. To bookmark a person, first navigate to that person, then choose the menu {{man menu|Bookmarks ->Organize bookmarksAdd Bookmark}}... ''' . This opens To move to that person from anywhere in the database, choose the following menu {{man labelmenu|Organize Bookmarks->'''Person's name'''}} dialog with from the list of bookmarks and the controls to modify this listbookmarked names shown.

[[Image:Orgbookmarks.png|thumb|350px|right|Fig. 6.1 Organize Bookmarks]] You can manage your bookmarks by choosing the menu {{man menu|Bookmarks ->Organize bookmarks...}}. This opens the {{man label|Organize Bookmarks}} dialog with the list of bookmarks and the controls to modify this list. Use the {{man button|Up}} en and {{man button|Down}} button buttons to change the list sequence. Use the {{man button|Remove}} button to remove a Bookmark. The {{man button|Help}} will bring you to this page, and you close the {{man label|Organize Bookmarks}} window with the {{man button|Close}} button.

 [[Image:Find-people.png|thumbright|250px450px|Fig. 6.2 Type-ahead find]] To find a record in a database, first switch to the appropriate View that provides the list of the desired records: People, Sources, Places, or Media. Then start typing the name of a person or the title of a Source, Place, or Media object that you are looking for, respectively. You may also press {{Man man key press|CTRL|F}} to turn on the search mode, but simply starting to type is also enough.

{{man tip|Finding People|For more complex people searches you may want to use filters.-}}

{{man tip|Finding People|For more complex people searches you may want to use filters. Enable filter controls by choosing ''' menu {{man menu|View -> Sidebar ''' }}, select the desired filter, and click {{man button|ApplyFind}} . For details, see [[Gramps_3.3_Wiki_Manual_-_Filters|Filters]].}}

<br clear="all"/>= Using the Clipboard ==

[[Image:Scratch-pad.png|right|400px|Fig. 6.3 Clipboard]] This tool provides a temporary note pad to store database records for easy reuse. In short, this is a sort of the copy-and-paste functionality extended from textual objects to other types of records used in GRAMPSGramps. {{man tip|1=Clipboard makes extensive use of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag-and-drop ''drag and drop''] technique|2=To invoke Clipboard, either choose '''the menu {{man menu|Edit->Clipboard''' }} or click the Toolbar {{man button|Clipboard}} button on the toolbar.}}<br clear="all"/>{{-}} Clipboard supports addresses, attributes (both personal and family), events (both personal and family), names, media objects references, source references, URLs, and of course textual information of notes and comments. To store any type of these records, simply drag the existing record on to the Clipboard Pad from the correspondingeditor dialog. To reuse the record, drag it from the Clipboard on to the corresponding place in the editor, e.g. Address tab, Attribute tab, etc. 

{{man tip|Tip|Clipboard storage is persistent within a single GRAMPS Gramps session. Closing the window will not lose the stored records. However, exiting GRAMPS Gramps will.}} The Clipboard can be accessed with the Keyboard shortcut (accelerator key is now ) {{Man man key press|CTRL|B}}. For an application like GRAMPS Gramps the Clipboard is very important.Just one ;One example: You find a birth certificate of a person. In this certificate also the witnesses are mentioned. And the birth certificate also determines a source where the information was stored. The best way is to open the clipboard and drag the source you want to work with there. Then use drag and drop to use it in new items you use. 

== Windows Manager (Menu)==

[[Image:Windows_manager.png|thumb|right|250px450px|Fig. 6.4 Windows manager]]

'''The {{man menu|Windows ->''' }} Menu provides a quick access to opened windowsyou are working on.

Go to '''the Menu -> {{man menu|Edit -> Tag'''}}.

[[Image:Screenshot1.png|rightleft|thumb|300px400px|Fig. 6.5 Tag actions from Edit menu]]

Or click the Toolbar {{man button|Tag}} button on the toolbar.

[[Image:Screenshot2.png|right|thumbleft|300px|Fig. 6.6 Tag actions from Toolbar button]]

[[Image:Screenshot6.png|right|thumb|200px300px|Fig. 6.7 Tag Organizer]]

* For people using ''gmail'' or ''thunderbird'', tags will not be something new. Instead of classifying emails into folders like in ''Outlook'' (Windows) or ''Evolution'' (Linux), emails are classified by assigning tags to them. So instead of having a disjointN:1 classification (a email can be in one and only one folder, and a folder can contain many emails), in ''gmail'' or ''thunderbird'' there is a N:M classification (a email can have several tags, and a tag can be applied to several emails)

Likewise, when you have a big tree, you might want to make subsets of the tree, and these subsets might be overlapping. For example, the subsets of your father's fathers family and your mother's mothers family, some subset of your family that emigrated to the USA, or the famous people in the tree.

[[Image:Screenshot4.png|rightleft|thumb|200px300px|Fig. 6.8 Tag selection in the Person Editor]]

* '''Markers''' are like the folders for mailsemails. A person can be given at most one marker. Tags are thus like multiple-valued markers.

* Tags and filters both create subsets of the tree. However they have practical differencesin usage.

[[Image:Screenshot5.png|right|thumb|200px300px|Fig. 6.9 Filter on a tag from the Filter Sidebar]]

Specifying your father's fathers family using filters is an easy thing; there are already filters based on some logics that do it. On the other hand, specifying the people that emigrated to the USA is harder, while for the famous people in your family it is simply impossible as there is no logical rule. Tags are much more practical here.

On the other hand, tags are '''statical'''. When adding a famous person in the tree, you have to explicitely tag it them as ''FAMOUS''.

Places: For example "places to visit", Source: For example "sources in german", Notes: For example "notes in progess", or "notes in german", Media: For example "Picture belonging to Uncle Alfred".  Tags have been added are available to use with '''People''', '''Families''', '''Notes''' and '''Media'''.

[[Image:Screenshot3.png|right|thumb|200px350px|Fig. 6.10 Attach a new tag to a multiple selection]]

Due to the '''static''' nature of tags, it might be useful to add a tag toa selection of objects. For example one should be able to select a number of person in the [[Gramps_3.3_Wiki_Manual_-_Main_Window#People_Category|Person View]], and add them a new tag or anexisting one.

[[Image:Screenshot7.png|right|thumb|200px450px|Fig. 6.8 Tags column and colored rows]]

It's is convenient to have a {{man label|Tags}} column in the views of objects thatcan be tagged. The content is a comma-separated list of the tagsof the objects.