Hi History Buff, certainly related!
Two small differences are: (1) the filter would be more complex (not
tiddlers *with* a specific tag, but tiddlers which exist only/primarily as
placeholders in the "tag tree"); (2) I was hoping to see whether some of
the column headers could be specified in a field. (My most frequent task,
with dynamic tables, is going into edit mode to tweak which columns appear.
Since I already use Mohammad's view-fields plugin, it's super-easy to
update the values in a field "on the fly".) I'm not sure that the columns
list *can* be drawn in dynamic fashion from a field, but that's what I was
hoping Mohammad would speak up about.
-Springer
On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 6:24:04 PM UTC-4 History Buff wrote:
> Springer,
>
> I've used transclusion and a ViewTemplate to successfully add dynamic
> tables to every tiddler tagged with a certain tag. It's worked extremely
> well for me so far. Is this kind of what you were talking about?
>
> On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 2:29:24 PM UTC-7 springer wrote:
>
>> Mohammad, a ViewTemplate add-in (with simple dynamic table for items
>> tagged-here) would be awesome! Basically, I end up copy-pasting a basic
>> dynamic table into virtually every tiddler whose only role is to serve as a
>> parent/overview dashboard for its tagged underlings.
>>
>> Another "stretch" task would stretch dynamic tables to work with an
>> input-oriented filter: Say, there's an input box where if students enter
>> their initials, all tiddlers where those initials are listed (in list
>> field) would show up. (For me, this is better than creating a separate
>> tiddler for each student for felt-privacy reasons (plus my own laziness
>> with many students); it's better if they can "call up" their own data by
>> entering initials in an input field, without having an easy way to feel
>> like everyone's data is for easy viewing; I understand that if the data is
>> "in there" a savvy student can find it.) I started tinkering with this
>> task, and then realized it was not going to be quick.
>>
>> In general, I'm struggling a bit with whether and how I can feed
>> variables into a dynamic table macro; I can force a column header to
>> display a string like "next_level" (using tobibeer's setvars, or even by
>> inserting {{!!custom}} in the field list and setting that field up with
>> next_level), BUT the column won't actually show the next_level field
>> contents for the tiddler rows. Perhaps it's generally true of any <<macro>>
>> that it's hard to get the guts of the macro to work with anything that
>> requires calculation from outside the macro? Or else I'm just missing some
>> insight about how to inject a desired variable into the dynamic tables'
>> macro syntax.
>>
>> -Springer
>>
>> On Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 2:38:37 PM UTC-4 Mohammad wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Springer,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 11:58 PM springer <springer...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Absolutely, dynamic tables are a game-changer. I'm not *exactly* a
>>>> beginner, but I appreciate that Shiraz (and also the utility plugin) saves
>>>> me from certain learning curves so that I can focus on other ones.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you and very proud to hear Shiraz is a game changer!
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Today's possible-because-of-Shiraz challenge: figure out how to
>>>> configure a tiddler (tagged with $:/tags/ViewTemplate) such that:
>>>>
>>>> For each tiddler, if it currently has no content in body but has stuff
>>>> tagged to it, THEN I see a dynamic table with rows for its "children" and
>>>> columns for title, caption, plus any other fields mentioned in its
>>>> "columns" field. (Or, a variation: Any tiddler with children gets such a
>>>> ViewTemplate component at bottom, but it's regularly tucked into a compact
>>>> details-type dropdown.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> So, do you like to have such a viewTemplate or you have already one and
>>> you use it now?
>>> If you like I can make one for you!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> :)
>>>>
>>>> -Springer
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 4:07:13 AM UTC-4 TiddlyTweeter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Shiraz <https://kookma.github.io/TW-Shiraz/> is a great plugin!!!
>>>>>
>>>>> It practically helps beginners with IN-Tiddler tools of large range &
>>>>> utility. ++
>>>>>
>>>>> It raises some issues that i think are interesting about how to handle
>>>>> CSS.
>>>>>
>>>>> But before I get into that I'd be interested in IF others found it
>>>>> useful too??
>>>>>
>>>>> TT
>>>>>
>>>>>
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