Hi Si, Have a look at this post: https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/Q3vU6tnPffI/m/WNguU1p6BwAJ
It's about using premade templates to create new tiddlers; you can of course add a form if you prefer that, instead of editing the new tiddler directly Best, Anders torsdag 15. april 2021 kl. 16:06:52 UTC+2 skrev si: > @Springer Thanks for your reply. > > >>> The lovely thing is that you can filter on a tag (or any other filter > condition), to see a column for each of the fields you care about for that > tag (or filter condition), with a row for each tiddler that fits the > condition (and the ability to "clone" new rows into existence). > > How do you tell TiddlyWiki which fields to associate with each > reference-type? So for example you were to add a tiddler with the tag > "Book", you would want your table to give you the option to add fields like > "author", "title" etc. If you had a tiddler tagged "Movie" you might want > "director", "year" etc. My question is about the best way to associate a > particular type of source with the particular fields that it requires. > On Wednesday, 14 April 2021 at 21:10:07 UTC+1 springer wrote: > >> Si, I highly recommend checking out all the RefNotes resources (active >> here recently, contributed by Mohammad). >> >> My own approach is to use a DYNAMIC TABLE (Mohammad's Shiraz) for each >> reference-type. The lovely thing is that you can filter on a tag (or any >> other filter condition), to see a column for each of the fields you care >> about for that tag (or filter condition), with a row for each tiddler that >> fits the condition (and the ability to "clone" new rows into existence). >> Then you don't have a separate challenge of generating forms. Unless you >> really want to. ;) >> >> -Springer >> On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 3:03:02 PM UTC-4 si wrote: >> >>> I use TiddlyWiki to manage sources (books, movies etc), and I want to >>> create an easy way to add tiddlers for individual sources. >>> >>> I have decided to add tiddlers that represent a "source-type", and then >>> use it to generate a form that allows me to enter metadata for a new >>> source. For example I might have a source type "Book", which is used to >>> generate a form like this: >>> >>> Title: ... >>> Author: ... >>> Year: ... >>> >>> While "Movie" might have a form like this: >>> >>> Title: ... >>> Director: ... >>> Producer: ... >>> >>> Obviously I need to associate the required metadata-fields with their >>> source-type. I can think of two ways to do this: >>> >>> - Add a field to each tiddler type called "required-fields" which >>> lists the required metadata-fields. >>> - Create separate tiddlers for each possible metadata-field, then >>> tag them with any source-type that requires them. >>> >>> It's not obvious to me that there is any functional difference between >>> these two options, but if I make a bad choice it will be difficult to >>> change down the line. So my question is: *Is there a reason that one of >>> these approaches is better than the other?* >>> >>> Thanks in advance for you help. >>> >> -- 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/b28d442d-c285-4fce-b8f8-5ad267d7b8e7n%40googlegroups.com.
