Diego, My ideas are maturing. I have been building dozens of solutions but none yet good enough yet to publish.
A Simple inroad I made at the start was in the Edit view fields The Link allows you to create a tiddler by the name of the field. Only one tiddler will be created for any field name. I call these field tiddlers This tiddler can be given a caption, an Icon, Description, tooltip, color tags etc... The idea is now to start using these fields on the fieldtiddler to bring forward to the user more useful tools for field manipulation I have done this in a not totally generic way for date fields for another solution I am building. As soon as you define a date field there is a whole range of tools available to increment, defer, clear, set to now, determine days since and until. Perhaps that describe my vision a little better. Tony On Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 3:59:37 PM UTC+11, Diego Mesa wrote: > > Ive been thinking a lot about this recently Tony. Just wanted to +1 this > and bring this back into the communal consciousness! > > Diego > > On Sunday, August 27, 2017 at 11:59:01 PM UTC-5, TonyM wrote: >> >> Folks, >> >> Perhaps I am off track, but I may as well voice observations during my >> learning process, that may have a baring on future enhancements. As I learn >> about filters and fields I was using the advanced search to investigate the >> filter [fields[]] which lists the names of all fields in the tiddlywiki. Of >> note is the list of links generated lend themselves to creating tiddlers >> using each fields name. >> >> The parallel you would all be familiar with is tags and how you can >> create tiddlers for each tag. Usefully then you can see references, tagged, >> list and listed for that tag. In fact tag tiddlers are a great place to >> build logic or views of your tiddlywiki by that tag, for example a >> References tag, open the references tiddler and see a list of all >> references... >> >> So, I thought, what if fields are treated the same?, any field-name can >> become a tiddler (already a fact), But what if we take this "feature" >> further and allow default or possible values to be placed in a fields >> corresponding tiddler, on that tiddlers fields and supplement the Info >> button with field references? This could betaken further to define a fields >> qualities even further such as allowable formats eg: number only, 2 decimal >> places etc... >> >> As I discovered earlier it is actually practical to store in existing >> tiddler fields, macro names, variable names and more so such an approach to >> make fields a first class citizen could open up a universe of possibilities >> further strengthening tiddly-wikis universal and Quine nature. >> >> Just food for thought >> Tony >> >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" 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/tiddlywikidev. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/d591c828-e698-4637-947a-d15d311c5720%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
