I've been using TW since August as a documentation target for the metadata and manual for our data mart of cardiovascular information and we are starting to get feedback from internal users and we are soon going to be sending it out to customers to get feedback on both the documentation and the data mart capabilities.
I'm very happy with how it is going. It's an integral part of our build process that produces the documentation and it's been really good to be able to combine very easily generated tiddlers of lists of content along with narratives that are created by the informatics staff. Users are very used to a linear document like a PDF or Word, but the TiddlyWiki is winning out the dev team with the powerful abilities to transclude information helping remove the artificial lines between what is template and what is manually written content and generated content. This flexibility has really saved a lot of cycles in developing the document's "framework" and editing. One of the feedback items that I did expect from the beginning is the issues surrounding the non-linear nature of TW. For many users, it's kind of scary, because like all hypertext system you don't know how much material is underneath when you don't have a table of contents and a page number to know where you are. And a lot of these users are medical informaticists, so high proportion of OCD - and things moving around is disorienting to them. What we would like to do to give some comfort to the people that are in that mindset is to have a subset of our tiddlers that is identified as the "default content" of N tiddlers in a particular order that would: 1. The default content would open at the start (already a feature of TW - I have this working as expected) 2. If tiddlers are closed and re-opened, that they show up in the same place in the order - this is something I am struggling to figure out how to get a closed tiddler to re-appear back in its place. 3. Have a default content button that restores all the tiddlers - I have a button that will open them - it's based on a macro I found - it opens them in reverse order so that the order at the end looks like the original order, but if the tiddler is already open, it does not get back in the right spot. I could just close all open tiddlers at the start of the macro, and then it would just be like a reset. If you have any ideas how to approach a slight linearization to ease beginners into using our TW, particularly with item 2 in trying to keep the ordering, I would be grateful. Thanks, Cade -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/7bd2fe2f-e08b-4368-9c14-57c641106794%40googlegroups.com.
