Ah, no, apologies for the confusion. Here's what I want, in more detailed
pseudocode (I'm probably using the wrong symbols):
set index=1
set increment_amount=1
set filter="[tag[this_tag]nsort[sort_order]]"
select list of tiddlers by <<filter>>
for each tiddler in list
set field 'sort_order' to <<index>>
increment <<index>> by <<increment_amount>>
next tiddler
One issue that I can think of is that because the filter is using the field
being changed, it may affect the list when it is changed.
-MJP
On Tuesday, 19 April 2016 13:16:26 UTC+4, Hegart Dmishiv wrote:
>
> Hi Matthew,
>
> Can I confirm, do you want the *name* of the field itself to be
> incremented, or the *value* within a given field to be incremented? From
> your examples above, it looks like you want the former, is that correct?
>
> Hegart.
>
>
> On Tuesday, 19 April 2016 21:01:33 UTC+12, Matthew Petty wrote:
>>
>> I've looked at that, but it seems to be creating new tiddlers, and
>> setting the titles. What I need is to take existing tiddlers and set a
>> field.
>>
>> On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 at 12:46 Hegart Dmishiv <hegart....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Matthew,
>>>
>>> I think TobiBeer's *make[ ]* filter plugin
>>> <https://tobibeer.github.io/tw5-plugins/#make> might be what you're
>>> looking for.
>>>
>>> Hegart.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 19 April 2016 20:09:34 UTC+12, Matthew Petty wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've been looking at tobibeer's setvars plugin, to see if that would
>>>> work, but I can't figure it out.
>>>>
>>>> Here's some pseudocode for what I want to do.
>>>>
>>>> set index to initial value
>>>> set increment amount
>>>> set required filter and sort
>>>>
>>>> select list of tiddlers by the filter
>>>> for each tiddler
>>>> set field to index value
>>>> increment index by increment amount
>>>> next tiddler
>>>>
>>>> Any help gratefully received
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, 18 April 2016 23:30:49 UTC+4, Matthew Petty wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a set of tiddlers, and I want to set a field for each one,
>>>>> incrementing the value each time.
>>>>>
>>>>> So for example, I have tiddlers A B C D, and after running this macro
>>>>> or whatever, they would have the following fields:
>>>>> A would have 1
>>>>> B would have 2
>>>>> C would have 3
>>>>> D would have 4
>>>>>
>>>>> What would be the easiest way to do that?
>>>>>
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