In TiddlyTables, templates have been developed to treat each field differently! In Favorites plugin list field has been used to create folders
On Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 11:28:47 PM UTC+3:30, bimlas wrote: > > I'm developing a plugin that lists the values of the fields. As I was > writing it, I had to realize that fields can be very useful, but I feel > like they're hanging in the air because there is no definition for them (so > I implemented most of the following ideas in the plugin). > > For example, from the "list" field contains a list of titles, so the > titles must be listed in the form corresponding to the list: > > [[first title]] second [[third title]] > > This operation is only referenced in the documentation, but if we haven't > read it, we don't know about it and do not understand why it treats the > words "first title" separatelly (which should have been correctly entered > as "[[first title]]"). I think we should create a field definition that > indicates that eg. "list" filed is a field containing a list: > > title: $:/config/fields/list > field-type: list > > ? this is not clear > In addition, this definition could provide a template that Tiddly could > use to display the elements of the field, for example for tags: > > title: $:/config/fields/tags > field-type: list > template: <<tag>> > > --Mohammad > Because we know how to handle the contents of the field, we even have a > template for its elements, so each field could have auto-completion and > "proper" rendering, so every field could work just like tags. > > I don't know if this change fits into TW 5.2 or just TWX, but I think it > would greatly facilitate the use of fields. > > Example from the wild to this: > https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/Attributes > -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/5f8b7edd-5b0c-43da-a15e-0e2771e92f11%40googlegroups.com.
