[tw5] Re: Special Copy of Title to Description Field

2021-01-10 Thread History Buff
Ah, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for explaining. That's one of the problems I have with expanding my knowledge of TW. I find it difficult to look beyond the basic uses of the operators and expand my outlook like this. Thanks so much. On Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 2:42:05 PM UTC-7 Eric Sh

[tw5] Re: Special Copy of Title to Description Field

2021-01-09 Thread Eric Shulman
On Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 1:09:02 PM UTC-8 History Buff wrote: > I saw the first operator, but thought it returned the entire title of the > first item in the list. It *does* return the title of the first item in the list. However, in this usage, first[] is preceded by split[] with no p

[tw5] Re: Special Copy of Title to Description Field

2021-01-09 Thread History Buff
Thanks Eric. That looks just like what I need. I saw the first operator, but thought it returned the entire title of the first item in the list. Now I know better. As far as using the description field goes, I have a custom tree macro that uses the description field instead of the caption field

[tw5] Re: Special Copy of Title to Description Field

2021-01-08 Thread Eric Shulman
On Friday, January 8, 2021 at 4:06:27 PM UTC-8 History Buff wrote: > The copying of the title to the description field with the extra text I > think is relatively easy. However, I'm having trouble figuring out how to > extract the first character and the first three characters from the title. >