Thanks @PMario, for the detailed explainer; this gives me a lot to chew on, as i am now working my way up the steep part of the learning curve about search tools, custom fields and filters. Fun stuff indeed! On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 1:03:18 PM UTC PMario wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 1:56:48 PM UTC+1 PMario wrote: > Hi Walt, > > The "tabs" are added to the search result dropdown and to the "Standard" > AdvancedSearch tab. This mechanism is built into TW standard. > > [image: field-search-01.gif] > > > >On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 8:10:18 AM UTC+1 ludwa6 wrote: > >Looking for a way to search across fields other than Title or Text, i was > inspired by this video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onRkttEULPw> to > try the Field Search <https://wikilabs.github.io/editions/field-search/> > plugin (edition? am not clear which it is, plugin or edition) by @PMario, > which looks like providing exactly the functionality i need. > > There are several discussion here in the group about *searching *"*all > the fields*" > > The plugin was created after a discussion here in the group, where some > users wanted a simple way to *separate *the search results into "*title*" > and "*text*" only tabs. > > Because I personally wanted to have "*caption*" and "*aliases*" I did add > them as well. Sometimes I want to search "system" tiddlers, without the > need to switch to the AdvancedSearch tiddler. That's why I did a the ` > *+system*` button to search results. > > That's the reason, why the options are as they are. ... You are right. It > should be more flexible. > > >However: It's not working as i expected, based on what was shown in the > video, in that when i click on the new "Fields" tab that appears when i > enter a string in the search widget, it does not deliver a set of results, > but rather gives me the option to either edit or visit the tiddler: > `$:/plugins/wikilabs/field-search/ui/fieldWrapper > $:/tags/SearchResults`. > > This list is only there to sort the tab order. > > [image: field-search-02.gif] > > > >NB: the version i've just installed (0.2.4) is different from that of > Mario's YouTube demo (v.0.2.2); also, i'm not working in a "clean" instance > of TW, but rather one also has latest version of the (soon-to-be-celebrated > ;-) Google Sheets plugin currently in development > <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/discussions/5482>... So maybe > there's some incompatibility here, i don't know. If so, i hope it can be > sorted soon, because these two plugins have the potential to make of TW a > super-powerful tool for exploratory data analysis, as i see it. > > The field-search plugin doesn't overwrite any core tiddlers. It only uses > existing TW functions to add tabs to the search results. > > >Anyway: from my end-user view, i don't particularly care about this > under-the-hood stuff; i just want the simplest possible solution to the > problem of searching my user-defined fields across the wiki with a minimal > number of clicks. Any advice about how best to accomplish this would be > most appreciated! > > Searching "all Fields" should be automatically selected after you > installed the plugin. I had a short look at Tobias'es list. ... The next > version of field-search will have a different formatting of the output. I > think the field should be shown. > > have fun! > mario > > -- 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/fa0f381f-c6ef-42a7-823d-66dbeb177fd2n%40googlegroups.com.
