Mark and all, Still no success, what ever is causing this intransigence of tiddlywiki, whilst it may have something to do with my ignorance it is an example of where tiddlywikis syntax and pecularities need review.
All I wanted for Christmas (not really) was the ability to provide a filter into a list statement using fields and variables. nothing more. See some of my experiments below, with alternate filter formats listed until I change them. I refactored the code so the list uses a value passed into a macro eg; [is[current]tag[working]] <$list filter="$menufilter$" variable=null> also <$list filter="<menufilter>" variable=null> also <$list filter="[prefix<menufilter>suffix<menufilter>]" variable=null> is never true OR disrupts menubutton is[current]tag[working] Never true <$list filter="[prefix<menufilter>suffix<menufilter>]" variable=null> Always true <$list filter="[<menufilter>]" variable=null> Never true <$list filter="[field:title<menufilter>]" variable=null> Always true <$list filter="field:title<menufilter>" variable=null> [is[current]tag[working]] <$list filter="field:title<menufilter>" variable=null> Always true <$list filter="[field:title<menufilter>]" variable=null> Never true Argggh Tony On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 8:11:14 AM UTC+11, Mark S. wrote: > > A small number of filter operators don't really filter -- they ignore > anything earlier in the filter chain and create their own stream of items. > These operators are called constructors. > > The prefix/suffix trick comes about because there isn't an equals > operator, exactly. You could use field:title<variable> perhaps. That should > work as long as the tiddler actually exists. I kind of like the > prefix/suffix thing because it works even if the tiddler doesn't work (like > if you were looking for a particular tag, which isn't also a tiddler). > > -- Mark > > On Friday, February 2, 2018 at 12:56:30 PM UTC-8, TonyM wrote: >> >> Mark, >> >> That special use of prefix suffix again, I really can't understand the >> tiddlywiki.com entries on selector constructors. >> >> Thanks mark I will test it soon and include the missing < >> >> Regards >> Tony >> >> -- 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/66634cf6-397c-488c-a513-0d729958c9a6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
