Thank you so much Eric you have saved me yet again! I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out.
On Wednesday, 22 April 2020 23:22:31 UTC+1, Eric Shulman wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 11:30:41 AM UTC-7, si wrote: >> >> Hi everyone. >> I'm trying to implement a particular type of task list using plain >> wikitext. I stole the idea from supermemo >> <https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Tasklist>. >> Each of my tasks is tagged *task*, and has the fields *time *and *value*. >> These fields represent the estimated time a task will take and the >> perceived value of a task respectively. >> I'm trying to generate a task list that is sorted by the result of *value >> divided by time* for each task. >> I thought this would be able to do this easily, then tried it and >> realised I couldn't. Can anyone help me out here? >> > > I did something similar to create a "tag cloud", where the tags are sorted > by the number of tiddlers they are tagging. > See > http://tiddlytools.com/filtergenerators.html#TiddlyTools%2FFilterGenerators%2FTagCloud > > For your purposes, the code is actually quite a bit simpler than the > TagCloud. This should do the job: > \define getitems() > <$list filter="[tag[task]]"> > <$vars time={{!!time}} value={{!!value}}> > <$text text="[["/>{{{ [<value>divide<time>divide[10000]] }}};<< > currentTiddler>><$text text="]]"/> > </$vars> > </$list> > \end > > <$wikify name="items" text=<<getitems>> > > <$list filter="[enlist<items>nsort[]]"> > {{{ [<currentTiddler>split[;]last[]] }}}<br> > </$list> > </$wikify> > > The <<getitems>> macro: > * gets all tiddlers tagged with "task" > * calculates the "value/time" number for each and divides it by 10000 to > ensure that all numbers are zero-padded for proper sorting (so a value, > e.g., "15" is not sorted between "1" and "2") > * prepends that calculated value in front of each task title, separated by > a semi-colon (;) and surrounded by double square brackets to handle titles > with spaces > > The calling code: > * Uses $wikify to capture the output of <<getitems>> into a variable, > "items" > * The $list widget then enlists the items and sorts them numerically > * The output then strips off the calculated number and the semi-colon > separator and displays the tiddler titles in the sorted order > > Let me know how it goes... > > enjoy, > -e > > > -- 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/37d4d40b-ce4f-44ad-b2a0-8a4217ebf502%40googlegroups.com.
