It depends on the form of your data to be imported. For instance, if it's a
spreadsheet, there is the Exel importer edition.
Good luck!
On Monday, September 9, 2019 at 9:02:30 AM UTC-7, Christian Macedo wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Yep it was data dictionary tiddler I meant. My mistake.
>
> By the looks of it, as you say, this won't be a working solution. And,
> I'll need to use the fields instead. The issue is that filling in fields is
> to my mind requires a little more effort. Unless of course there's some
> import mechanism.
>
> Either way, many thanks. I'll have a look at importing.
>
> Christian.
>
> On Monday, 9 September 2019 16:52:35 UTC+1, Mark S. wrote:
>>
>> By "data tiddlers", do you mean "data dictionary tiddlers" ?
>>
>> If so, I don't think your "sort" here is actually doing anything. Sort
>> only works on fields.
>>
>> Data dictionaries are useful when you have long lists of information that
>> don't benefit from the
>> overhead of a normal tiddler. Or when you have a lot of simple
>> information you copy and paste
>> into a single tiddler. But if you have a data tiddler for each person,
>> then there is no
>> benefit from the dictionary, and things like this will be more
>> complicated, partially because
>> there is little core functionality for dictionaries.
>>
>> If you're using regular tiddlers, then you're filter becomes
>>
>> <$list filter='[tag[person]field:team[Android]]'>
>>
>> Note that it doesn't sort on team -- they'll all have same entry!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Monday, September 9, 2019 at 6:02:40 AM UTC-7, Christian Macedo wrote:
>>>
>>> I've got a set of data tiddlers each of which are structured as below
>>>
>>> name:James Brown
>>> team:Android
>>> location:Norway
>>> ...
>>>
>>> And a list filter that looks like this.
>>>
>>> <table>
>>> <th>NAME</th>
>>> <th>TEAM</th>
>>> <th>LOCATION</th>
>>> <$list filter='[tag[person]sort[team]]'>
>>> <tr>
>>> <td><$link to=<<currentTiddler>>><$view index='name'/></$link></td>
>>> <td>{{##team}}</td>
>>> <td>{{##location}}</td>
>>> </tr>
>>> </$list>
>>> </table>
>>>
>>> A table is produced with all the tiddlers that match the filter
>>> criteria. What I would like to do however is to modify the filter such that
>>> it shows a table row for for each tiddler whose *team *value is
>>> 'Android'.
>>>
>>> btw, data tiddlers are my new favourite thing. Congrats to the whole
>>> team. Again!
>>>
>>
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