Hi Patrick, Sorry if I'm misinterpreting. You can use a text reference in a filter with curly brackets.
It looks as though you're using Mohammad's timeline macros. I went to https://kookma.github.io/TW-Timelines/ and made a new tiddler to test your example. Adding the following gave me a timeline: <<timeline-vertical filter:"[tag{!!search}sort[date]]" >> Hope that helps, Chris On Monday, June 21, 2021 at 7:47:05 AM UTC-4 prbru...@gmail.com wrote: > Matybe I wasn't clear enough.... > > I can get input into a field ("search") and assign it to a variable eg. > > \define thisList() > <$list filter="[tag[$(TestVariable)$]]"> > \end > <$set name=TestVariable value={{!!search}}> > TestVariable is <<TestVariable>> > This list is <<thisList>> > <br> > </$set> > > <$edit-text field="search" default="" placeholder="enter text to search" > tag="input"/> > <br> > > this will list all tiddlers tagged with the value of the field "search" > > but I can't work out how to use that search term in another existing macro > as a filter such as.... > > <<timeline-vertical filter:"[tag[search]sort[date]]" date:"date">> > > or > > <<timeline-vertical filter:"[tag[search] sort[date]]" search:"$(search)$" > date:"date">> > > any ideas please? > On Friday, 18 June 2021 at 00:11:12 UTC+1 Patrick RB wrote: > >> It look's like this is a common issue for newbies, but I'm using >> timelines plugin to display tiddler filtered by tags (in this case >> "snippet") >> >> <<timeline-vertical filter:"[tag[snippet]sort[date]]" date:"date" >> >> To aid quick searches and avoid editing the tiddler I have created a text >> box input to set a field to inject input into tag[.....] and a custom date >> field >> >> I can create, set and check the search field has the expected text, but >> cannot get the timelines macro to accept the search field text, though the >> date field works fine. >> >> can any of you real developers help? Thanks! >> >> >> -- 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/8125d473-f7eb-4787-a4fc-441208844c81n%40googlegroups.com.
