Thank you for your reply. "nsort[toc-order]" is indeed the way to go. I will show an example here:
- Post "Home" with toc-order = -1 - Post "Book" with no toc-order - Post "Events" with no toc-order - Post "Footer" with toc-order = 1 Using "sort[title]nsort[toc-order]", the list is: - Home - Book - Events - Footer It seems that it *does* have an default value of 0 *if I use nsort instead of sort*, which is what I should be doing. Thanks for everyone's help here! On Thursday, 28 March 2019 22:13:23 UTC+8, S. S. wrote: > > Eric, > > Thanks for that explanation! I had not absorbed that concept properly. > > A small test shows that when using *sort[toc-order]* or *nsort[toc-order]* > - the empty/non-existent toc-order values *go to the top of the list*, > followed by those that have a value of 0, then the other numbers below. > > So depending on what one wants, doing a *!nsort[toc-order]* might > accomplish what is needed. > > Otherwise, perhaps use the Tiddler Commander Plugin > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/tiddlywiki/YQU3ATb5r3k> to > add the field and the wanted values to all the tiddlers without that field > quickly. > > Regards > > On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 8:44:45 PM UTC+7, Eric Shulman wrote: >> >> On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 4:04:57 AM UTC-7, S. S. wrote: >>> >>> I haven't understood what you mean by "sort[toc-order]" >>> >> >> The second parameter of the toc-selective-expandable macro uses filter >> syntax to apply a sort order to the set of tiddler being displayed at each >> level of the tree. >> >> "sort[toc-order]" means "sort the list of tiddlers by the value in the >> "toc-order" field of each tiddler. >> >> Thus, if each tiddler has a "toc-order" field containing a number then >> when those tiddlers are shown in the tree, they will be sorted based on >> those numbers. >> >> The problem is that tiddlers where the "toc-order" field is missing (or >> blank or non-numeric) are sorted AFTER the tiddlers that do have a defined >> value for "toc-order", and Jamie was asking how to get these un-numbered >> tiddlers to default to being placed BEFORE the sorted ones. >> >> Note: for his purposes, Jamie should be using "nsort[toc-order]", which >> does a NUMERIC sort, rather than an ALPHABETIC sort. With alpha sorting, a >> sequence of numbers like "1 2 3 10 11 21 22" will be sorted as "1 10 11 2 >> 21 22 3". >> >> However, just like the sort[...] filter, nsort[...] also puts >> missing/blank/non-numeric values at the end of the list. So, although >> nsort[...] is correct, it still doesn't solve the original problem. >> >> -e >> >> -- 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/96e57cf0-35d3-4158-8adb-3fe2607d3e16%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
