I think that's partly because my end goals are slightly different. I need the ability to generate these while half-distracted and from specific and custom lists, and then have them instantly available. Most time I won't need to generate in bulk. This means a button I can press and dump out a quick answer is perfect for running a tabletop game and needing to generate a new patron for my players. Yours feels far more heavy duty!
On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 5:28:24 PM UTC-5, Hegart Dmishiv wrote: > > Hi Christopher, > > Sorry, I don't have any answers for your questions, but I just wanted to > say that I was impressed with what you've done here. I've spent the last > week or two trying to achieve something similar, except I'm using a > Google Sheets spreadsheet > <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1341Gky9t1hXHVKFxB8RsCfVrsKEQN2ok0adGoSpEZzE/edit?usp=sharing> > > as my source data, and creating pseudo-random company tiddlers > <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/odu3my97ujyxz4h/SampleData-testing.html>, > > with pseudo-random contact details, employees, and just today I've added > individual communications with those companies, as per the screenshot > example below. > > > <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/xsm4emv70c35z8l/160403_auckland_food_company_sampledata_example.png> > I'm doing this for my *{{DesignWrite}}* > <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/tk91wqty552z6z1/designwrite.html> > semester > project > <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/tk91wqty552z6z1/designwrite.html#SemesterProject>, > > TiddlyCRM > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/tiddlywiki/CRM/tiddlywiki/9PSw_3OsyyE/qsq9prjaHgAJ>. > > I hadn't considered using TobiBeer's *random[ ]* filter plugin for this > before. I guess the main difference between your solution and mine is that > you have to have the tiddlers in your wiki first to create new random ones > from them. Mine starts with a completely blank TiddlyWiki, and I just > import the tiddlers from JSON files, via the CSV to JSON converter > <http://www.convertcsv.com/csv-to-json.htm>, from the spreadsheet. > Interesting to see a different approach to this. Thanks for sharing. > > Hegart. > > > > On Sunday, 3 April 2016 09:49:29 UTC+12, Christopher Londrie wrote: >> >> I'm able to do this at all thanks to Tobias Beer's really easy to use >> "Random" plugin. http://tobibeer.github.io/tw5-plugins/#random >> >> >> <!-- Generating a random corp --> >> >> <!-- Generate the First Name from tiddlers starting with GenSource: that >> also have the tags "Corp" and "FirstName" and use the "corpname" field as >> the value --> >> <$set name="FirstName" >> filter="[prefix[GenSource:]tag[Corp]tag[FirstName]field[corpname]random[]]"> >> >> <!-- Generate the Last Name from tiddlers starting with GenSource: that >> also have the tags "Corp" and "LastName" and use the "corpname" field as >> the value --> >> <$set name="LastName" >> filter="[prefix[GenSource:]tag[Corp]tag[LastName]field[corpname]random[]]"> >> >> <!-- Preview the Generate Corp --> >> <table> >> <tr><th>Name </th> <td><<FirstName>></td></tr> >> </table> >> >> <!-- Create New Tiddler with the generated information prefilled --> >> <$button>Generate Corp >> <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" title="Corp:"<<FirstName>> >> tags="Corp Corp:<<FirstName>>-<<LastName>>"/> >> </$button> >> </$set> >> >> This is my current batch of code, I've got it partially working but am >> stumped on a few things: >> >> 1) If I remove the field[corpname] I'm able to successfully pull the >> titles of the GenSource: tiddler(s), however with it, I get null as a >> result, I've made absolutely sure that I've made no spelling mistakes and >> the GenSource tiddler does indeed have that field, am I specifying this >> wrong? >> >> 2) How do I properly insert tags using the variables, they're considered >> literal inside the quotes, and ignored outside of them. >> >> 3) Am I going about this in an absurd manner? >> > -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. 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/53949f62-cfe3-4e5c-aead-eaba9b1041aa%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
