Here I am, Eric, and thanks for your help. I hope I'll be able to explain clearly.
Let's have a bunch of dictionary tiddlers to work with (note that the first one is used as tag for the others): title: Music type: application/x-tiddler-dictionary Album: Artist: Genre: title: Music 1 tags: Music type: application/x-tiddler-dictionary Album: Wish You Were Here Artist: Pink Floyd Genre: Progressive Rock title: Music 2 tags: Music type: application/x-tiddler-dictionary Album: Never Mind the Bollocks Artist: Sex Pistols Genre: Punk title: Music 3 tags: Music type: application/x-tiddler-dictionary Album: Nevermind Artist: Nirvana Genre: Grunge title: Music 4 tags: Music type: application/x-tiddler-dictionary Album: The Future Artist: Leonard Cohen Genre: Folk And the macro used for strings concat (stolen from Tobias Beer Ad-Hoc macro, http://tobibeer.github.io/tb5/#Ad-Hoc%20Macro) title: StrMacro tags: $:/tags/Macro \define str(text,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,19,20) $text$ \end Now if I create a tiddler like the following, it works, displaying a grid with dict's indexes names as header and indexes value in the rows: title: Music Table (code within tiddler) <$set name="t" value="Music" > <table> <!-------------- -- Table header --> <tr> <$list filter="""[<t>indexes[]]""" variable="i"> <th> <<i>> </th> </$list> </tr> <!------------ -- Table rows --> <$list filter="""[tag<t>sort[sort]]"""> <tr> <$list filter="""[<t>indexes[]]""" variable="i"> <td> <<str "{{$(currentTiddler)$##$(i)$}}">> </td> </$list> </tr> </$list> <!-- -- Table rows end ------------------> </table> </$set> Now I would like to create more tables without duplicating the code, so I make a macro from the previous one: title: TableMacro tags: $:/tags/Macro \define table(t) <$set name="t" value="$t$" > <table> <!-------------- -- Table header --> <tr> <$list filter="""[<t>indexes[]]""" variable="i"> <th> <<i>> </th> </$list> </tr> <!------------ -- Table rows --> <$list filter="""[tag<t>sort[sort]]"""> <tr> <$list filter="""[<t>indexes[]]""" variable="i"> <td> <<str "{{$(currentTiddler)$##$(i)$}}">> </td> </$list> </tr> </$list> <!-- -- Table rows end ------------------> </table> </$set> \end The only differences are: - define and end pragmas - the value for the beginning set widget ($t$ instead of Music) Finally I can change my Music Table content with this one: title: Music Table (code from TableMacro) <<table "Music">> But unluckly it renders in an empty grid, but table headers. You said: "*$(currentTiddler)$ only works within a macro*" I learned that I can use it in the macro invocation too You said: "**Within* a macro definition, the value of $(currentTiddler)$ is always defined*" You're right, but it's not always defined the way I expect. In this case I tried to remove the curly brackets, changing... <<str "{{$(currentTiddler)$##$(i)$}}">> ... with... <<str "$(currentTiddler)$##$(i)$">> in my TableMacro. Now the grid is not empty anymore. Every single cell, but the headers, just as before, contains: "Music Table (code from TableMacro)## " It is the title of the tiddler from which the macro is invoked and not the tiddlers that the list widget should return. The real code is much more complex. I added stuff to sort columns, edit inline, select/unselect all or single rows, add fields, add records, change table and create a new one, everything using just vanilla TW5. I was excited for my results, but I'm only able to use all of this copying/pasting code from one tiddler to another. I don't know what's wrong, but I'm sure there should be a better way. The code of my previous post was an attempt to find a workaround. -- 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/2564e2f9-dea6-480f-8245-1d421b76afa4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
