@TiddlyTweeter Pray you never meet my students.... On Tuesday, 2 March 2021 at 15:04:04 UTC TiddlyTweeter wrote:
> I am always amazed at the *Patience of Programmers *to lay out *yet again > *what they bone-know. > > That was good! V. helpful to the questioner. > > It would drive me *mad* having to do that *everyday*. > > TT > > On Tuesday, 2 March 2021 at 14:03:18 UTC+1 PMario wrote: > >> On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 1:56:48 PM UTC+1 PMario wrote: >> Hi Walt, >> >> The "tabs" are added to the search result dropdown and to the "Standard" >> AdvancedSearch tab. This mechanism is built into TW standard. >> >> [image: field-search-01.gif] >> >> >> >On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 8:10:18 AM UTC+1 ludwa6 wrote: >> >Looking for a way to search across fields other than Title or Text, i >> was inspired by this video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onRkttEULPw> >> to try the Field Search >> <https://wikilabs.github.io/editions/field-search/> plugin (edition? am >> not clear which it is, plugin or edition) by @PMario, which looks like >> providing exactly the functionality i need. >> >> There are several discussion here in the group about *searching *"*all >> the fields*" >> >> The plugin was created after a discussion here in the group, where some >> users wanted a simple way to *separate *the search results into "*title*" >> and "*text*" only tabs. >> >> Because I personally wanted to have "*caption*" and "*aliases*" I did >> add them as well. Sometimes I want to search "system" tiddlers, without the >> need to switch to the AdvancedSearch tiddler. That's why I did a the ` >> *+system*` button to search results. >> >> That's the reason, why the options are as they are. ... You are right. It >> should be more flexible. >> >> >However: It's not working as i expected, based on what was shown in the >> video, in that when i click on the new "Fields" tab that appears when i >> enter a string in the search widget, it does not deliver a set of results, >> but rather gives me the option to either edit or visit the tiddler: >> `$:/plugins/wikilabs/field-search/ui/fieldWrapper >> $:/tags/SearchResults`. >> >> This list is only there to sort the tab order. >> >> [image: field-search-02.gif] >> >> >> >NB: the version i've just installed (0.2.4) is different from that of >> Mario's YouTube demo (v.0.2.2); also, i'm not working in a "clean" instance >> of TW, but rather one also has latest version of the (soon-to-be-celebrated >> ;-) Google Sheets plugin currently in development >> <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/discussions/5482>... So maybe >> there's some incompatibility here, i don't know. If so, i hope it can be >> sorted soon, because these two plugins have the potential to make of TW a >> super-powerful tool for exploratory data analysis, as i see it. >> >> The field-search plugin doesn't overwrite any core tiddlers. It only uses >> existing TW functions to add tabs to the search results. >> >> >Anyway: from my end-user view, i don't particularly care about this >> under-the-hood stuff; i just want the simplest possible solution to the >> problem of searching my user-defined fields across the wiki with a minimal >> number of clicks. Any advice about how best to accomplish this would be >> most appreciated! >> >> Searching "all Fields" should be automatically selected after you >> installed the plugin. I had a short look at Tobias'es list. ... The next >> version of field-search will have a different formatting of the output. I >> think the field should be shown. >> >> have fun! >> mario >> >> -- 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/ab3e09e6-ab61-426a-b241-3477484d50d0n%40googlegroups.com.
