You could insert the "subfilter" operator. Then use transclusion
subfilter{MyTiddlerWithAVeryLongFilter} and change the contents of
MyTiddlerWithAVeryLongFilter as you needed on the fly.
If there's a limit to filter run size, I haven't hit it yet ;-)
On Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 1:28:08 PM UTC-7, Aidan Grey wrote:
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> After some thought and digging, a better idea.
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> I can go into $:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/tags and change the filter list to
> prevent certain tags / kinds of tags from showing in the tag wrapper.
> They'll still be on the tiddler, just not shown.
>
> Unfortunately, that would be a giant list - are there limits on how large
> a filter can be? Is there a way to transclude the tag list or something?
>
> If I need to see them again - I can either restore the original filter or
> go to the tiddler manager and edit from there.
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> On Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 10:43:38 AM UTC-6, Aidan Grey wrote:
>>
>> Can someone ELI5* how to use / work with fields as lists of tags? What
>> are the limitations and methods for using them?
>>
>> I understand that you can use buttons to edit the list, thanks to the
>> listops widget (I think it's a widget), but I don't understand how it all
>> goes together. Is it really just create a field and put items in it, like
>> this?
>>
>> partofspeech: N:IN V:Tr22 V:Di12 Part:Case
>>
>> where V:Tr22 is a whole "tag" that I can subject to filters like
>> [prefix[V:Tr], [suffix[22], and so forth?
>>
>> I'm particularly interested because I have fields in a dictionary TW that
>> really should have multiple items, like part of speech above. A word can be
>> a noun, several kinds of verbs, and an adverb, for example, and ideally,
>> I'd like to be able to tag them all in there, filter on the tags in the
>> field, etc. In other words, treat them just like a list. They wouldn't
>> change a lot and I don't really need the tags visible since they're in the
>> dictionary entry. I just need them for filtering.
>>
>> I also think using fields this way might be a way to solve another issue
>> - some tags I don't want visible on certain kinds of tiddlers, but the
>> solutions I've seen so far have been ... aesthetically unappealing to me
>> ($:/ will work for some, but not all of them). Multicol dropdowns are
>> great, but when I have literally 100 tags, it's impossible.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aidan
>>
>> * just in case, ELI5 = Explain Like I'm 5
>>
>
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