Hey Harry, Your use case had me pondering how I'd prototype something like that.
It wound up turning into a "brain age" exercise for me, as I went ahead and put together a wee for-the-giggles-prototype hosted here <https://intertwingularityslicendice.neocities.org/SelectCommitteeTrackingPrototype.html> . Although not particularly fancy, there is a bit of good stuff going on in there, making for a reference point to discuss some TiddlyWiki goodies/concepts if you have any questions about anything in there. And loads of things to improve in there slowly and surely, a way to gradually introduce other TiddlyWiki goodies/concepts when it makes sense. It has a little bit of HTML in there for tables, which I generally prefer over wikitext tables. If the HTML is a little overwhelming, or simply too messy, ask and I'm sure somebody can clean things up with wikitext table instead. Things could be cleaned up with some macros too at some point. On Sunday, July 25, 2021 at 3:40:15 PM UTC-3 Harry wrote: > 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/bd280d0b-9671-489f-9837-73362f56bb74n%40googlegroups.com.
