Bump? Anyone? I have the feeling that setvars would be useful, or calc, or action-setfield. But how to bring it together?
On Tuesday, 19 April 2016 13:57:16 UTC+4, Matthew Petty wrote: > > 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? >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>>> Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/S0CYsynRi7E/unsubscribe. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>>> tiddlywiki+...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to tiddl...@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/8caaedbc-ba59-4c92-aa24-2b345048da1b%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8caaedbc-ba59-4c92-aa24-2b345048da1b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> -- 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/938f7588-b7d8-40a3-8a1a-df560a35dc92%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
