Hi Eric, What a project - I can barely keep up!
I'm thinking about using the calendar option for an 'On This Day' project and I have a few questions: 1. When one uses the '....MMDD' date format then the event (e.g. birth) is also included for years before that event - I can't quite decide whether it's okay for this to happen so I'm wondering whether there's a way to include a 'start date' for a re-occurring event? 2. I thought it would be appropriate to use a field to store, let's say, date of birth or death and then use some 'mechanism' to put the event into an events tagged tiddler. I'm still learning about what 'mechanism' might do this and I may be completely misunderstanding the use of fields but is this a reasonable approach? 3. Asociated with 2. I note that an events tagged tiddler is Plain text(text/plain) type and that, of course, just displays the text as written. It seems it's okay to use other types, which means a 'mechanism' does something useful but, again, is this a reasonable approach for an events tagged tiddlet? Apologies, I'm still vey much learning how TW works and hope these queries aren't too dumb. Many thanks for any comments, Anthony On Sunday, 4 October 2020 at 10:13:35 UTC+1 Eric Shulman wrote: > On Saturday, October 3, 2020 at 6:41:41 PM UTC-7, TW Tones wrote: >> >> Rather than specifically addressing journal-date, is there any chance of >> simply nominating one or more date fields, for which if they are equal to >> the calendar date they cause the default highlight and appear listed in the >> drop down on that date? >> >> - The idea is simply to be able to integrate any other solution using >> a tiddlywiki serial number date in a date field to appear on the calendar. >> - The start and end date as you implemented is a range which is a >> fundamental need in some cases, thank you so much for implementing that. >> - It seems to me the ability to place on the calendar tiddlers with >> any nominated date field on the same day is another fundamental need, >> although less complex than start and end dates. >> >> start-date/end-date and journal-date handling are VERY similiar. In > fact, a journal entry is really just a special case of a timeline entry > without a specified "end-date" (i.e., a single day event), which the > timeline code already handles. > > So... rather than writing redundant code for handing "journal-date" or any > other desired fieldname, I just made the timeline "start-date" fieldname > configurable, so that you can easily enter a different fieldname instead of > "start-date". Thus, the Calendar can now display timeline and journal > events using "start-date" or "journal-date" or any fieldname you like. To > change the fieldname, just view the Calendar settings and click on the gear > icon next to the "Timelines and Journals" entry in the "Events" list. > > http://TiddlyTools.com/timer.html now includes a "SampleTimelineEvent" > (with a start-date field) and "SampleJournalEntry" (with both start-date > and journal-date fields). > > The SampleJournalEntry is set to 20201001 (October 1st) > The SampleTimelineEvent is set for 20210717 through 20210725 (July 17-25, > 2021) > > enjoy, > -e > > -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/961f7378-a315-4d40-a5d7-e3b8d3c20817n%40googlegroups.com.
