Hi Joshua, many hanks for getting back to me with the missing piece.
I'll have a go later and report back. Regards Jon On Sunday, 14 June 2020 00:46:13 UTC+1, Joshua Fontany wrote: > > Hi Jon, author of JsonMangler here. I setup the import to package the > imported tiddlers into a plugin to have a simple way of > overwriting.updating/deleting a whole import at once. > > The way that tiddlywiki is setup, "shadow" tiddlers are full tiddlers in > the system (beware of confusing this with "system" tiddlers that start with > "$:/" because something can be both a shadow and a system tiddler). > > Meaning that you can search for and/or filter-query any "shadow" tiddler > just like any other tiddler, BUT you have to start your filter runs with > `all[shadows+tiddlers]` instead of the default (asumed if missing) > `all[tiddlers]`. The one special feature of shadow tiddlers is that you can > edit them, creating a "regular" tiddler of that name to store the edits, > and then if you delete the edited version the "backup/shadow" version is > immediately referenced in its place. > > For example, after importing the Video Games CSV in my example wiki, you > can hit the Filter tab of $:/AdvancedSearch and enter > `[all[shadows+tiddlers]search:*[Mario]]` to display links to all references > to "Mario". > > If you want to promote a shadow tiddler to a regular one, the easiest way > to do that is a weird little hack I picked up, where you setup a button to > delete a field that DOES NOT EXIST from each shadow tiddler, like so: > ``` > \define plugin-target() Data/vgsales > \define unpack-actions() > <$list variable="shadowtiddler" > filter="[<plugin-target>indexes[/tiddlers]]"> > <$action-setfield $tiddler=<<shadowtiddler>> > $field="does.not.exit.in.this.wiki452369084306093845760894253" /> > </$list> > \end > > <$button actions=<<unpack-actions>> > > Press here to unpack <<plugin-target>> > </$button> > > <$list variable="test" filter="[<plugin-target>indexes[/tiddlers]]"> > > </$list> > > ``` > This creates a regular tiddler that is identical to the shadow, for each > one in the plugin-target. Change the definition of that line to your target > plugin containing yuor imported tiddlers and it will "unpack" it for you > (you will no longer need `all[shadows+tiddlers]` in filters to target the > "unpacked" tiddlers). You will see the links to your tiddlers go from being > Bold to normal font to show that they are now "overwritten shadow > tiddlers", and exist as normal tiddlers in the wiki. > > Best, > Joshua F. > > > > On Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 12:40:10 AM UTC-7, Jon wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm importing a .csv file and I want each row to be a separate tiddler. >> What's the best way to do this? >> >> I have tried TW5-JsonMangler/ >> <https://joshuafontany.github.io/TW5-JsonMangler/> where "each >> individual row is rendered to a tiddler, then these tiddlers are packaged >> as shadow-tiddlers into a plugin." >> but then there doesn't appear to be any instructions as to what to do >> with the resulting plugin (sorry, I'm only an end user). >> >> Any guidance about using this method or an alternative much appreciated. >> >> Regards >> Jon >> > -- 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/190afc34-d8b0-4e68-a9d9-d9f57a9854f1o%40googlegroups.com.
