wow. now that I am using just a single field to store date, I find out that
I can easily use MatchTagsPlugin to produce a list in chronological order:
<<matchTags inline "[[%0]]" "\n" sort:event_when event>>
On Monday, December 10, 2012 8:38:19 PM UTC+5:30, passingby wrote:
>
> After a lot of tinkering and experimenting with javascript snippets found
> online I have finally decided that the simplest way is the best way.
> I decided to do away with event_year, event_month, event_date fields.
> Instead just kept a field event_when. And in the associated textbox I take
> care to enter the value as yyyy,mm,dd so that this string when retrieved
> can be directly used to create a javascript Date object using new
> Date(DateString) syntax.
>
> So I have put this code in a tiddler and tagged it with systemConfig:
>
> var sortNestedFieldDate = function (arr) {
> arr.sort(function (a, b) {
> var valueA = new Date(a.fields.event_when);
> var valueB = new Date(b.fields.event_when);
>
> if (valueA < valueB) {
> return -1;
> } else if (valueA > valueB) {
> return 1;
> } else {
> return 0;
> }
> });
> };
>
> And then in a separate tiddler I call this code as inline script (within
> script tags):
>
> <script>
> var events= store.getTaggedTiddlers("Event");
> sortNestedFieldDate(events);
> events.sort();
> var out=[];
> for (var i=0;i<events.length;i++){
> out.push(events[i].fields.event_when.toString()+":
> [["+events[i].title+"]]");
> }
>
> return out.join("\n");
> </script>
>
> This prints out a list of tiddler sorted on date (field event_when) of the
> event. Hope this helps some future TW user.
> As a side note I was a little bit disappointed that there is no DatePicker
> plugin available in TW world. There is one interwined in mGSD TW but for me
> it is near impossible to create a decent workable independent code out of
> it.
>
>
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