Feel free to post here with your filter code (and of the macro) if you get
stuck.
On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 7:24:06 PM UTC+2 Stobot wrote:
> Thanks Saq, actually that sounds like an interesting challenge. From a
> Javascript standpoint all I've done is tweak the macros of others so it may
> be a bit over my head, but I'll give it a try.
>
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 1:04 PM Saq Imtiaz wrote:
>
>> The first thing that comes to mind is rewriting the macro as a filter
>> operator.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 6:54:22 PM UTC+2 Stobot wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to pass dynamic parameters into macros (javascript) other
>>> than using <$macrocall/>?
>>>
>>> For instance I use a modified version of (Jed's I think) add-time.js
>>> that allows you to use a parameter 'days' to feed days to add to current
>>> date. So, doing something like <> would return the date
>>> 10 days from now. If it's a static number like 10, things are easy, but if
>>> it's dynamic (stored in a field) then things get more complicated - I have
>>> to use the <$macrocall/> instead, which is less convenient but sometimes
>>> not a problem.
>>>
>>> It becomes a problem when I need to use this new date in a filter. I
>>> *am* excited that in pre-release now we can feed *static* values as
>>> parameters into macros within filters, but the missing piece is still
>>> dynamic values as parameters - can't do a <$macrocall/> within a filter.
>>>
>>> If it's a normal macro, right now I'd surround the <$list/> with some
>>> <$wikify> runs that run the <$macrocall/>'s and wikify it to be fed in as a
>>> static value. I'm just wondering if there's a better way that I'm not
>>> thinking about (I end up with LOTS of wikify's which people tell me is not
>>> great).
>>>
>>> For instance, doing something like:
>>> <$vars days={{!!daystoadd}}><$list
>>> filter="[duedate]"> would work if it was a regular
>>> macro instead of a javascript macro. But, even though the parameter that
>>> can be fed is called days, it's not picked up by the macro call.
>>>
>>> Hopefully that makes sense - thanks
>>>
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