On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 9:13:22 PM UTC-8, Mark S. wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > Thanks for your explainer. But there's something wrong with your macro > definition. It seems to want the tiddler= attribute rather than the > combined field=tiddler!!field. >
oops... yes. tiddler="""$tid$""" field="!!caption" > Also, is the idea that only the caption OR the title shows up? I could fix > it, but it would show both caption and title when both were available. > The way the <$view> is *nested*, it will show the caption field if it exists, OR the title field if no caption field exists.... but not both. It's a basic database design requirement that key linking fields be > immutable. Title fields should float on top of the data independently so > they can be freely altered as the use case is refined. I guess if I was > going to depend on a macro solution I would want one that would create > links based on a separate id field. But I suppose the link macro would have > to do some sort of expensive field search so ... I don't know. > If the "title" field was named "ID", and the "caption" field was named "title", you would have what you want, without having to implement completely separate handling for a custom ID field. -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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/0948cec1-c258-4e6c-9b66-ec376e815639%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
