[tw5] Re: Conditional Reveal based on whether tiddler title shows up in fields of other tiddlers

2021-11-08 Thread Merry Machiavelli
Hello, That worked perfectly, thanks! I knew there was some kind of syntax trick I was missing. Honestly, the reason for the two gender loops was just my own confusion. Intuitively, I couldn't think of another way to list parent-child relationships in a way that was agnostic towards which pare

[tw5] Conditional Reveal based on whether tiddler title shows up in fields of other tiddlers

2021-11-07 Thread Merry Machiavelli
Hello! Okay, so the context for this is that I have, or will have, a database of many, many interrelated individuals. Each of those individuals has a 'mother' and a 'father'. I can currently get tiddlywiki to display lists of children each individual has, based on their name showing up in the m

[tw5] Re: Linking to Field Values

2021-06-27 Thread Merry Machiavelli
@Eric Shulman Great, that works, thanks! Really minor follow-up question. What do I have to put before [field:father-id{!!id}] to get it to actually show up on the page as text and a link? Currently, I can do this: <> (which is the inverse, for finding fathers as opposed to finding sons) but t

[tw5] Re: Linking to Field Values

2021-06-27 Thread Merry Machiavelli
<> Works to retrieve the children of Robert Smith. However, that involves manually typing in Robert Smith's id. Instead I want something like this: <> But that doesn't work... On Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 10:07:48 AM UTC+1 Merry Machiavelli wrote: > Thank you so much @So

[tw5] Re: Linking to Field Values

2021-06-27 Thread Merry Machiavelli
Thank you so much @Soren Bjornstad, that works perfectly! I think I tried something close to that at one point, I just messed up the syntax! @iamdar my use case is that I want to be able to mass-produce wikipedia-style bios for individuals, where the the same basic info comes up in multiple par

[tw5] Linking to Field Values

2021-06-26 Thread Merry Machiavelli
Hello, I think this is a pretty basic problem, but I've not been able to figure out how to do it. Within tiddlywiki, I have profiles for made-up individuals. I have birthcountry of each individual recorded as a field. I also have wikipedia-style sideboxes with individuals date of birth, date o