Aha, Thanks for the tip Anthony, I try that. One question though, several persons can have the same birthday, can that cauce a problem? I mean I can't have 2 tiddlers with the same topic/title.
PS: I was just kidding with "nuts and bolt" expression. I saw Måns once used it and I thought it was funny :) //Tobbe > A Question for Tobbe though. When you enter the persons name or birthdate > why dont you put it in [[square brackets]] - then when you click on it it > will create the tiddler eg; [[1908-02-17]] (It would be smart to tag the new > tiddler as a "Date". Using default tiddlywiki you can see the orphans (Named > but un-created tiddlers) and once created you can use the tiddler menu > References to see all occasions in which that data is referenced. That is > you build these links into your wiki so you don't need to search. You can > also list all tiddlers tagged "Date" in name order to see a time line etc... > > What I am suggesting can also work well with Erics suggestion. > > If you want to go further, look at the NewHerePlugin. > > PS In english we dont say I "totally nuts and bolts", just "totally nuts" or > "am I a nut?" , But I like "totally nuts and bolts" :-) > > Tony > > TonyM > > If you have not found an easy way to do it with TiddlyWiki, you have missed > something.www.tiddlywiki.com > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 16:52, Tobbe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks Eric, > > > Nice, I'll try that. > > > //Tobbe > > > On 24 Sep, 08:13, Eric Shulman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm thinking of making a TW into a geneology database. The title in > > > > every tiddle gonna be the persons name. The I'm gonna put in the > > > > display area this information: > > > > Firstname Lastname was born 1854-04-01 in Ghosttown, Spokane, USA son > > > > of [[Big Lastname]] and [[Mrs Lastname]] > > > ... > > > > So I wanna be able so make a search in every tiddler and looking for a > > > > certain birthdate and the result should be a new tiddler with the > > > > birthdate as the title and in the display area all the people that are > > > > born that certain date I search for > > > > Instead of using free-form text to enter your content into each > > > tiddler, if you use some special formatting for the content, then they > > > can be used programmatically as 'tiddler slices' (addressable name- > > > value pairs, stored in the tiddler's text content). For example, in a > > > tiddler named [[John Smith]], you could write: > > > > First: John > > > Last: Smith > > > Born: 1854-04-01 > > > Place: Ghosttown, Spokane, USA > > > Father: Big Lastname > > > Mother: Mrs Lastname > > > > Then, you can use macros like: > > > <<tiddler [[JohnSmith::Place]]>> > > > which displays: > > > Ghosttown, Spokane, USA > > > > and, you can programmatically access slice values, too. For example, > > > using ForEachTiddlerPlugins's <<forEachTiddler>> macro, you can write: > > > > <<forEachTiddler > > > where > > > 'store.getTiddlerText(tiddler.title+"::Born","").startsWith > > > ("1854")' > > > sortBy > > > 'store.getTiddlerText(tiddler.title+"::Last","")' > > > ascending > > > write > > > '"|"+store.getTiddlerText(tiddler.title+"::First","") > > > +"|"+store.getTiddlerText(tiddler.title+"::Last","") > > > +"|"+store.getTiddlerText(tiddler.title+"::Born","") > > > +"|\n"' > > > > enjoy, > > > -e > > > > note: for a discussion/explanation of slices, see: > >http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_frm/thread/e1ec74a3f... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
