Added to TW-Scripts On Friday, March 29, 2019 at 4:19:01 PM UTC+4:30, Jamie Choi wrote: > > 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 >>> >>>
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