Hi Tobbe Totally share your view that there is a problem here, but I don't think this is the answer. I for one have lots of John Robson's in my family tree. However the big reason I've done it this way is because most TiddlyWiki plugins work that way and I didn't want to limit the potential of the app by doing something different. In TiddlyWiki world the tiddler title is like an ID (since you can't have two tiddlers with the same name).
One thing we could do though is place a reference id as you create tiddlers as part of the tiddler title. So when I create a tiddler John Robson it might be made as John Robson (23). Then in the ViewTemplate you are free to print 23 as a reference number and see John Robson or the title, or just use John Robson (23). I'll think a bit more about this.. One thing that we *could* however do On 7 Oct, 11:56, Tobbe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm, > > You can't have 2 tiddlers with the same name (James Jones) but if you > have a reference number and make that number the tiddler name you can > have several people with the same name. In Sweden back in the old days > sons get there fathers firstname as lastname like this: > > Jan Andersson > > > son of Jan is Johan Jansson (sson after Jan) > >> son of Johan is Anders Johan-sson > >>> son of Anders is Jan Ander-sson (again, same name) just an example and it > >>> could even be that Jan Anderssons son gets the name Jan Andersson also. > >>> They weren't so keen on different names back in 1700 :) > > If a tiddler could use the reference # as the tiddler field in seqence > of +1 and we could add a new field with the persons name, it would be > great, than we can have how many Mary Jones or Anders Andersson as we > will. > > Hope you understand what I mean. It's not that important if you think > it's a "little" overkill :) > > //Tobbe > > On 7 Okt, 11:59, jdlrobson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Would this reference number be used as a title? If not what is the > > purpose of it? Couldn't the name work as a reference? > > > On Oct 7, 6:43 am, Tobbe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Jon, > > > > It was an idea if it was easy to add a reference # (as a feature) and > > > yes it would have it's own field, say to the right of the tiddler > > > title field. But if it is hard to fix then we can leave alone and I > > > can come up with another reference type, maybe someting in the tag > > > area. > > > > I look into your ViewTemplate also. I'll get back when I have tried it > > > a little bit more. > > > > Thanks again Jon, I'm waiting for your next release :) > > > > > In terms of the reference numbers for each person could I ask your > > > > motivation? Would this be a separate field or would it replace tiddler > > > > title? Either way you would need to override the new tiddler function > > > > to prepopulate the tiddler. We would then have to think about making > > > > any changes to the family tree plugin to accommodate this change. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
