All I see in the code he shows is making a single, empty tiddler. I'm missing how the data comes in.
On Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 10:36:59 AM UTC-8 Mat wrote: > @Mark , thanks for your input! I don't know how Siniy-Kits solution works > other than vaguely understanding what he explains > <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/xQJ_J0AVyfM/m/G8UFicZnAQAJ>. > But it is worth noting that "all that is needed" is some mechanism in TW > that can "pull in" a JSON webpage: Here > <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QUoZosiS3emBQNM_HugaptU5qY1Ze5lBQXVd8yZit6A/edit#gid=1720443340> > > is the regular Google sheet and here > <https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/1QUoZosiS3emBQNM_HugaptU5qY1Ze5lBQXVd8yZit6A/1/public/full?alt=json>is > > its automatically generated JSON version. > > About a "ban list"; maybe the shop blocks people who have misbehaved? > > <:-) > > > On Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 6:24:04 PM UTC+1 Mark S. wrote: > >> In my experience, most programmers would rather rewrite something rather >> than reverse engineer an existing product. >> >> When I follow the code, I see that there is some type of call back. I'm >> guessing Google calls back to a function inside TW with the requested data. >> But, the only place I see where the results could manifest is in *function >> ok* -- but all that function does is check a ban list. Which is also >> confusing. If the data in the spreadsheet is your own, why would your email >> be on a ban list ?? In any event, I don't see that the data is handed off >> anywhere to the rest of the tiddlywiki machinery. Do you know ? >> >> Have fun! >> >> On Monday, February 8, 2021 at 8:59:37 AM UTC-8 Mat wrote: >> >>> I want to bring attention to a post I made here in the dev group >>> <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/discussions/5482> (because it >>> goes beyond direct TW matters). >>> >>> Briefly, it is possible to use the Google "Excel" spreadsheets as >>> tiddlers. >>> So your empty (or half empty) TW fetches tiddlers from the spreadsheet. >>> >>> This would open up for very useful stuff - both for individuals >>> (assuming they have a google account) but also for the community at large. >>> >>> For example, I think that if *anyone* puts up a public wiki with this >>> functionality, then *you* can make that wiki show your spreadsheet >>> tiddlers (by providing it with your spreadsheet-URL). This means that we >>> can "publish" plugins etc by piggybacking on other public wikis (if they >>> have this Google Drive solution installed) >>> >>> Or you can, yourself, use e.g Google Forms to make questionnaires and >>> have all the results appear in your own wiki. (This is foremost thanks to >>> Googles automated "questionnaire-to-single-spreadsheet" feature.) >>> >>> The incredible part is that fellow tiddleur *Siniy-Kit has already >>> created this*! But he has it baked into a bigger project. So I need >>> help to pick out the critical js parts and refine it. See the dev group >>> discussion <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/discussions/5482> >>> for further details. >>> >>> <:-) >>> >> -- 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/f7174b78-65f0-40c7-96e2-bb9f4946ad59n%40googlegroups.com.
