The conversation here has moved to https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/. Could you repost the question there, where it's much more likely to get answers?
In the meantime, you might look up the sortsub operator (https://tiddlywiki.com/#sortsub%20Operator), which should allow you to avoid adding such temporary fields, sorting tiddlers based on the result of calling a subfillter... which can call your macro or procedure. On Wednesday, January 7, 2026 at 1:58:49 PM UTC-5 Eric N wrote: > Hi, > > A filter outputs tiddlers x, y, z and I want to sort them. > Not by their title or by any field, but *by the output of a macro applied > to each of them*, in my case a macro that returns the breadcrumbs of a > tiddler. > > Example of desired sorted output for tiddlers x y and z: > path > to > y > qath > to > too > tooo > z > rath > za > ze > x > (which is sorted alphabetically by breadcrumbs, and not by tiddlers titles) > > I first thought I'd run two list loops : > - first one assigns the breadcrumbs value of the tiddlers in a dedicated > field in that tiddler > - second one outputs the field : ....get[dedicated_field]sort[] , and done > ! > > Unfortunately I don't know the mechanism to write the first loop. > Is it possible ? > > Best, > E. > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a9871974-4bc3-423e-bbe1-bee59b3a55e9n%40googlegroups.com.
