Mark, Thank-you. Yes, this is want I was trying to accomplish!
On Friday, March 12, 2021 at 12:49:02 AM UTC+1 Mark S. wrote: > Create a tiddler and give it a caption field with the value "Index". Tag > it with $:/tags/SideBar . Put these contents in it: > > <$vars mysort="[get[lastname]addsuffix[firstname]]"> > <<list-links "[regexp:tiddlertype[(?i)person]sortsub<mysort>]">> > </$vars> > > This should do what you have asked, though there is room for improvement. > > > On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 2:10:37 PM UTC-8 fenn...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I'm sorry if this is a repeat, but I did search and couldn't find an >> answer to this question. >> >> I have been using Tiddlywiki for sometime now but use basically it as a >> database to store news articles I am interested in, I also create >> hyper-links to individuals, places, events, etc. named in the articles and >> have a sort of template I use to save information into separate tiddlers >> about individuals, places, events, etc. >> >> I want to create an index tiddler that can be in a side tab. I need to >> list all the tiddlers that have a field of "tiddlertype" = "Person" or >> "person" and then list those tiddlers alphabetically by fields "lastname", >> "firstname" >> >> This seems like it should be simple to do, but I can't find examples >> anywhere, although I'd like to learn how to do this simple type of coding I >> don't really know where to start. If anyone can suggest to me how to do >> this (or write the code if its not too difficult), it would be greatly >> appreciated. If anyone can suggest the most basic resource for a very >> beginner for learning to do simple coding in Tiddlywiki it would also be >> appreciated. I have been to the tiddlywiki site as well as github and seen >> examples of code but I just have no idea of how to start to make this work. >> Sorry to be dense. >> >> Thank-you >> >> Steve >> > -- 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/cad5105e-2bdf-468c-b4ed-6bff138f46bdn%40googlegroups.com.
