[tw] Re: [TW5] Best Solution to Similar Tiddlers

2017-01-30 Thread 'Jeff AnCap' via TiddlyWiki
It looks like this is going to work for me. Thanks for the help everyone; I appreciate it! Jeff -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsub

[tw] Re: [TW5] Best Solution to Similar Tiddlers

2017-01-28 Thread Thomas Elmiger
Hi Jeff If would suggest a strategy that is similar to Jed’s, but even simpler. I would make one tiddler for each character and tag them for example "role". The Name could be the title, the description could be stored in the text field. All other standard attributes would be in additional user

[tw] Re: [TW5] Best Solution to Similar Tiddlers

2017-01-28 Thread Jed Carty
I have done a lot of similar database-ish uses of tiddlywiki and here is my advice based on that: 1) Make lots of tiddlers. The data for each character can (and probably should) be its own tiddler. So if each character has a description, name, home and occupation than you make one tiddler per c

[tw] Re: [TW5] Best Solution to Similar Tiddlers

2017-01-27 Thread Tobias Beer
Hi Jeff, You can use a JSON based workflow to do what you want, e.g.: 1. open Advanced Search > Filter 2. filter for your actual character tiddlers (however, they should have a proper tiddler syntax, fields and all) 3. then export those as json using the button to the right 4. the

[tw] Re: [TW5] Best Solution to Similar Tiddlers

2017-01-27 Thread 'Jeff AnCap' via TiddlyWiki
Thanks for the replies, Tobias. I'm not committed to the method I've proposed, I was just really close to getting what I was looking for, and the JSON DataTiddler I had seemed valid because I saw that the History List was formatted similarly, to my

[tw] Re: [TW5] Best Solution to Similar Tiddlers

2017-01-27 Thread Tobias Beer
Asked differently, What's your idea behind you wanting to use this kind of json? Why use it and does it have to be like this? Fwiw, the json you gave as an example does not fit the basic json "data tiddler" format TiddlyWiki can read. It resembles more the json produced when exporting tiddlers

[tw] Re: [TW5] Best Solution to Similar Tiddlers

2017-01-27 Thread Tobias Beer
Hi Jeff, Long story short, I don't think there currently is a module for grabbing data from json like I imagine you want it to. Best wishes, Tobias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop recei