Sorren,
I have seen TiddlyTables develop as I have built my own parallel solutions,
So I do not have an answer for it, but I have a deep understand of the
methods.
I am currently building an equivalent to tiddly tables for a specific
tiddlywiki application. I have being thinking along the same lines as you
are and looking at what I am calling virtual fields
- I have a tiddler that defines every field, and the field definition
specifies a field-type which is separately defined (and often reused)
- Within each field-type there is wikitext for the field when in edit
view modes etc...
- I have a macro `<<field *fieldname*>>` that is used in every cell of
my table.
- Now I plan to introduce calculated or virtual fields so they can be
used in an interactive table (This would be like your link output)
- In my interactive table it is easy to set the sort order to an
existing field, but as you say what if it is a calculated value?
I have a simple answer, although may develop a more sophisticated one
later. Tell me if you have trouble following my suggestion
- inside a button, Using the same filters you use to generate your
table,
- Generate the sort key and/or the result of your link analysis and save
it in each tiddler (as field(s)) using actionsetfield
- Then the tiddlers can be sorted on the sort key, in the table, after a
click of a button to refresh this field.
- Basically you transform the virtual field into a real field so the
table can sort it.
- If you do not want to store the result of your link analysis in each
tiddler, you could save it in a data tiddler using the tiddler name as a
key. And access this via a virtual field in the table
In closing
- Capturing the result of your link "analysis" in each tiddler could
have great design outcomes,
- The link analysis would be available outside the table
- You could have a mechanism to update the link analysis for a
specific tiddler on save
- Such that after the initial build it maintains itself.
I hope this helps
Tony
On Monday, March 23, 2020 at 1:12:53 AM UTC+11, Soren Bjornstad wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm working on a custom reference explorer for my wiki using TiddlyTables.
> It inspects links, tags, fields, and so on to generate a rich display of
> connected tiddlers categorized by their type.
>
> I'd like to include a column that identifies the type of link (e.g.,
> hardlinked, backlinked, listed in a field, tagged, etc.). I don't want
> nested tables -- they should all be listed in the same table, but one of
> the columns categorizes the elements by link type. TiddlyTables doesn't
> appear to have any built-in features to accomplish this kind of "pivot"
> operation.
>
> Here's what I managed to do last night. I first created a filter that
> included all the types of links for certain tags:
>
> [<storyTiddler>backlinks[]] [<storyTiddler>links[]] [<storyTiddler>tagging
> []] +[!tag[Source]!tag[Publication]!tag[Place]!tag[Meta]!tag[PAO]sort[]]
>
> I then added a pseudo-field called "linktype" to my table. This field
> doesn't actually exist on any tiddlers (and it can't, because it's not a
> property of the tiddler itself but depends on the relationship between it
> and the story tiddler at the time the table is rendered). I then created a
> custom template for this field, which looks something like this:
>
> <td>
> <$list filter="[<currentRecord>] -[<storyTiddler>links[]] +[else[Link]]
> -[<storyTiddler>backlinks[]] +[else[Backlink]] -[<storyTiddler>tagging[]]
> +[else[Tagged]]">
> <<currentTiddler>>
> </$list>
> </td>
>
> So basically, all of the relevant types of links are pulled together in
> one list, and then when the empty "field" linktype is rendered for each
> record, the display template repeatedly attempts to make the list
> containing the single element currentRecord empty by subtracting the
> lists of different link types, and outputs the link type as a string when
> it succeeds (note that something might be more than one type, in which case
> the first type listed takes precedence, links > backlinks > tag).
>
> The main problem with this approach is that you cannot sort by the link
> type field (because the field has no content, so all elements have the same
> sort key). I'd like to allow the user to filter/sort based on the link
> type. Ideally, I would also like to list multiple types if the tiddler is
> related in multiple ways (e.g., tagged and backlinked). I *could* do this
> in theory with the current method, but by the time I'm done adding link
> types, the filter would be a mile long with all the combinations.
>
> Are there any TiddlyTables features or other approaches I'm missing here
> that might let me address these issues without overcomplicating things?
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
>
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