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Add Number of Source Citations in Statistics Block

Open samiona2 opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

Enhancement Request. The statistics block has a number of sources listed. This stat can be enhanced by adding the total number of source citations (some sources have many events cited multiple times for multiple individuals). If I have a tree with a single source that is used as citations for birth and deaths for 2 people, the count would stand at 4 ....

samiona2 avatar Jun 03 '19 03:06 samiona2

It is not possible to calculate this from any of the indexes or data structures that we have available.

It would therefore require considerable resources (CPU time and memory) to calculate these statistics..

fisharebest avatar Jun 08 '19 20:06 fisharebest

@fisharebest , with all the architectural changes that took place in webtrees in the past 4.5 years, has this become something that can more easily be calculated? Thanks

samiona2 avatar Dec 12 '24 14:12 samiona2