Hi Radium An alternative to dropdowns, is to cycle through available options -- like the keep operator example on the ActionListops widget demo site: http://listops.tiddlyspot.com/
You'll need the x-listops filter set from the site, which includes the cycle[] and keep[] operators used for this demo. regards On Monday, 23 May 2016 12:43:36 UTC+2, Radium wrote: > > Some fields like "medicinal plants" have a mind blowing number of "bits & > pieces", > So a drop-down list for "parts" seams logical, but think twice about > "uses" if your desktop doesn't have 50 monitors stacked on top of each > other ;) > A simple text-field armed with a "suggestions as typing" function is far > better for "uses". > > On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 7:31:39 AM UTC+4:30, Mark S. wrote: >> >> Wow, that's really cool. And you did all that on a tablet? >> >> To turn it into a standardized database application, could those use and >> part options come from a drop down list? >> >> Without a standardized list, what happens is that you get variant >> spellings for the same thing (e.g. "Leaves" vs "leafs", "antispetic" vs >> "antiseptic") Those variants will make analyzing the data later much harder. >> >> Mark >> >> On Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 1:32:44 PM UTC-7, Jed Carty wrote: >>> >>> I would also recommend TiddlyMap, but it may get a bit unwieldy if you >>> have 300 nodes. >>> >>> I doubt that anything will be finished in time to be very useful by >>> monday, but I am hoping to make a generic encyclopedia model for TiddlyWiki >>> using a lot of things I have made >>> <http://ooktech.com/jed/ExampleWikis/Directory.html>. While it isn't >>> immediately obvious a lot of the functionality you want is already in what >>> I made. Unfortunately one of the biggest problems with TiddlyWiki at the >>> moment is the difficultly going from understanding the very basic use as >>> something like a journal or linked notebook to understanding more complex >>> uses. We are working on it. >>> >>> In the meantime, everything in your list (all the plants belonging to X >>> family, listing all plants with medicinal "root bark", etc.) can be done >>> relatively simply using what you inspired me to make from your request ( >>> here >>> <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/2j4326k9mispk41/GenericFieldsAsTags.html?dl=0>). >>> >>> I am working to find a reasonable way for someone who isn't familiar with >>> TiddlyWiki to use them effectively. >>> >>> Once I get the new changes added into the encyclopedia demo I made than >>> just clicking on the tag pill for each section will list everything that >>> has that entry. So everything that has antiseptic listed under uses will >>> appear if you click on the pill antiseptic in the uses list. >>> There are other ways it will be able to be sorted or searched through as >>> well, like a drop down menu where you can select from all the uses to get a >>> list of things that match it. >>> >> -- 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/14e09a09-6d19-4e5b-95ba-1ccacdd62425%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
