Springer,
I've used transclusion and a ViewTemplate to successfully add dynamic
tables to every tiddler tagged with a certain tag. It's worked extremely
well for me so far. Is this kind of what you were talking about?
On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 2:29:24 PM UTC-7 springer wrote:
> Mohammad, a ViewTemplate add-in (with simple dynamic table for items
> tagged-here) would be awesome! Basically, I end up copy-pasting a basic
> dynamic table into virtually every tiddler whose only role is to serve as a
> parent/overview dashboard for its tagged underlings.
>
> Another "stretch" task would stretch dynamic tables to work with an
> input-oriented filter: Say, there's an input box where if students enter
> their initials, all tiddlers where those initials are listed (in list
> field) would show up. (For me, this is better than creating a separate
> tiddler for each student for felt-privacy reasons (plus my own laziness
> with many students); it's better if they can "call up" their own data by
> entering initials in an input field, without having an easy way to feel
> like everyone's data is for easy viewing; I understand that if the data is
> "in there" a savvy student can find it.) I started tinkering with this
> task, and then realized it was not going to be quick.
>
> In general, I'm struggling a bit with whether and how I can feed variables
> into a dynamic table macro; I can force a column header to display a string
> like "next_level" (using tobibeer's setvars, or even by inserting
> {{!!custom}} in the field list and setting that field up with next_level),
> BUT the column won't actually show the next_level field contents for the
> tiddler rows. Perhaps it's generally true of any <<macro>> that it's hard
> to get the guts of the macro to work with anything that requires
> calculation from outside the macro? Or else I'm just missing some insight
> about how to inject a desired variable into the dynamic tables' macro
> syntax.
>
> -Springer
>
> On Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 2:38:37 PM UTC-4 Mohammad wrote:
>
>> Hi Springer,
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 11:58 PM springer <springer...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Absolutely, dynamic tables are a game-changer. I'm not *exactly* a
>>> beginner, but I appreciate that Shiraz (and also the utility plugin) saves
>>> me from certain learning curves so that I can focus on other ones.
>>
>>
>> Thank you and very proud to hear Shiraz is a game changer!
>>
>>>
>>> Today's possible-because-of-Shiraz challenge: figure out how to
>>> configure a tiddler (tagged with $:/tags/ViewTemplate) such that:
>>>
>>> For each tiddler, if it currently has no content in body but has stuff
>>> tagged to it, THEN I see a dynamic table with rows for its "children" and
>>> columns for title, caption, plus any other fields mentioned in its
>>> "columns" field. (Or, a variation: Any tiddler with children gets such a
>>> ViewTemplate component at bottom, but it's regularly tucked into a compact
>>> details-type dropdown.)
>>>
>>>
>> So, do you like to have such a viewTemplate or you have already one and
>> you use it now?
>> If you like I can make one for you!
>>
>>
>>
>>> :)
>>>
>>> -Springer
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 4:07:13 AM UTC-4 TiddlyTweeter wrote:
>>>
>>>> Shiraz <https://kookma.github.io/TW-Shiraz/> is a great plugin!!!
>>>>
>>>> It practically helps beginners with IN-Tiddler tools of large range &
>>>> utility. ++
>>>>
>>>> It raises some issues that i think are interesting about how to handle
>>>> CSS.
>>>>
>>>> But before I get into that I'd be interested in IF others found it
>>>> useful too??
>>>>
>>>> TT
>>>>
>>>>
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