Hi Charilie, For this table I only care about current chairs and ranking members as I want them to constantly auto-update as I edit other entries and the political cycle changes. I have a separate entry where I record historical committee compositions, as these entries are historical records and will not ever change, I do not need that entry to auto-update.
Best Harry 在2021年7月25日星期日 UTC-4 上午10:09:22<[email protected]> 写道： > Silly question for you, Harry: do you only care about current chairs and > ranking members in senate committees? Do you think you'd ever like to see > the composition of these committees at various points in time ? > > On Friday, July 23, 2021 at 8:08:25 PM UTC-3 Harry wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have a niche question about creating an auto-updating table and wonder >> if anyone can give me some guidance. >> >> To illustrate the specific context, let's say I'm trying to create a >> table of all chairs and ranking memebers of the senate committees. The >> table would look like this: >> | Committee | Chair | Ranking Member| >> | Agriculture | 1 | 2 | >> | Armed Service | 3 | 4 | >> >> When the agriculture chair changes from “Jane Doe (FL)” to "John Smith", >> I have to manually change the code entry of cell 1 from "[[Jane Doe|Jane >> Doe (FL)]],,D,," to "John Smith,,R,,". >> >> Instead of manually putting codes into cells 1 through 4, I wonder if >> there is a way that the table could update itself, since the chairs and >> ranking members change from time to time. >> >> What I'm currently exploring is to creat two fields in each committee's >> tiddler. Say for tiddler "senate agriculture committee", I creat two fields >> "incumbent_chair" and "incumbent_ranking". My hope is that there can be >> some way that links cell 1 with the "incumbent_chair", so that whenever I >> change the "incumbent_chair" field, cell 1 in the table above would >> automatically update itself (with all the formatting noted above). So far >> this is not working out, and the best I can do now is to use "<$view >> tiddler= field=/>" which only allows the table to update cell 1 as the text >> of the field, not as a tiddler that can be clicked and redirected, nor can >> I add specific formatting as mentioned in the example above. >> >> Is there anyway that I can write a code to reflect this need? Very much >> appreciate all the help! >> >> >> Best >> >> Harry >> >> >> -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/ca3f3f6f-19a8-4ce3-84cf-cc6bc6319f72n%40googlegroups.com.
