That's brilliant, thanks so much. It works, but (weirdly?) not if I have
the date sorting, and not if the tiddler is put into the sidebar (the
search field field doesn't get filled!)
<$edit-text field="search" default="" placeholder="enter text to search"
tag="input"/>
<br>
search is {{!!search}}
<br>
*<<timeline-vertical filter:"[tag{!!searchterm}]" limit:4>>*
However, this is nearly there and I'm very grateful ;-)
On Monday, 21 June 2021 at 16:34:25 UTC+1 clutterstack wrote:
> Or I should specify "you can *transclude* a text reference using curly
> brackets" since this can be a bit messy to keep straight.
>
> Docs: https://tiddlywiki.com/#TextReference
>
> On Monday, June 21, 2021 at 11:28:33 AM UTC-4 clutterstack wrote:
>
>> Hi Patrick,
>>
>> Sorry if I'm misinterpreting. You can use a text reference in a filter
>> with curly brackets.
>>
>> It looks as though you're using Mohammad's timeline macros. I went to
>> https://kookma.github.io/TW-Timelines/ and made a new tiddler to test
>> your example. Adding the following gave me a timeline:
>>
>> <<timeline-vertical filter:"[tag{!!search}sort[date]]" >>
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> Chris
>> On Monday, June 21, 2021 at 7:47:05 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> Matybe I wasn't clear enough....
>>>
>>> I can get input into a field ("search") and assign it to a variable eg.
>>>
>>> \define thisList()
>>> <$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!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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