Eric,
An idea riffing off this code pattern.
I have seen this code pattern being used a number times to overcome some
limitations within tiddlywiki. As I observed in your original solution,
using the number to effect the font size was in a way capturing or using
the "number" in the font so they need not be retained for later.
In your second example I understand you are creating a new array of items
"tagcount;tagname" use this for the sor,t then discarding the prefix
tagcount and then presenting each tagname.
- I have done something similar in another case, there are other methods
but the usually involve a two step process, and usually a triggers,
generate a list then interrogate it.
- Since this is an area that often needs this kind of workaround it
would be nice if we could provide a method to simplify this. A kind of
concatenated key list or something, or temporary array.
*Alternatively,*
To avoid the need for an additional trigger to generate the first list,
before interrogating that list. It would be nice if we could trigger an
action on opening a tiddler (to re/generate the list), then its wiki text
interrogates the generated list. I have raised a GitHub issue to do with
being able to add/trigger actions to any button, and the desire to be able
to do so on any navigation to a tiddler. I could imagine a tiddler field
action-on-open containing say {{$:/regenlist}} a set of triggered actions.
This would allow such intermediate lists to be created in a "working"
tiddler on opening a tiddler, that then lists its contents in a desired
order.
*A pattern*
If we could trigger the generation of a list, as defined in a filter, that
builds a list of temporary tiddlers, with all possible sort keys
represented in the title and fields we could then sort by any field, as
many additional times as we want, using the same temporary tiddlers.
I hope I am making sense.
Tony
On Saturday, November 30, 2019 at 12:16:53 PM UTC+11, Eric Shulman wrote:
>
> On Thursday, November 28, 2019 at 9:08:32 AM UTC-8, TiddlyTweeter wrote:
>>
>> I was struck by the simplicity of this solution!
>> One thing I want to do, but don't know how, is to change the filter so
>> that the results can be presented in *Count Order *(highest to lowest).
>>
>
> It's a bit tricky... you can't directly sort tags by the number of items
> they are tagging...
>
> But I've managed to do it with a bit of trickery:
> http://tiddlytools.com/filtergenerators.html
>
> 1) get all the tags.
> 2) wikify a list that shows "tagcount;tagname", with the tag count numbers
> padded with leading zeros
> 3) sort that list and remove the tag count prefix from each item, and
> wikify that.
>
> The result is a list of tags, sorted by number of items they tag. Then I
> output that list as a tag cloud.
>
> Note: I also modified the tag display so that each tag pill shows the tag
> name AND tag count.
>
> enjoy,
> -e
>
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