Found it; <$list filter=<<menufilter>> variable=null>
Works, note no " " Regards Tony On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 12:09:59 PM UTC+11, TonyM wrote: > > Mark and all, > > Still no success, what ever is causing this intransigence of tiddlywiki, > whilst it may have something to do with my ignorance it is an example of > where tiddlywikis syntax and pecularities need review. > > All I wanted for Christmas (not really) was the ability to provide a > filter into a list statement using fields and variables. nothing more. > > See some of my experiments below, with alternate filter formats listed > until I change them. > > I refactored the code so the list uses a value passed into a macro eg; > [is[current]tag[working]] > > <$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 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/8e71dc9c-8c5e-408a-b6b5-5efbad47c7de%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
