@Springer Thanks for your reply. >>> The lovely thing is that you can filter on a tag (or any other filter condition), to see a column for each of the fields you care about for that tag (or filter condition), with a row for each tiddler that fits the condition (and the ability to "clone" new rows into existence).
How do you tell TiddlyWiki which fields to associate with each reference-type? So for example you were to add a tiddler with the tag "Book", you would want your table to give you the option to add fields like "author", "title" etc. If you had a tiddler tagged "Movie" you might want "director", "year" etc. My question is about the best way to associate a particular type of source with the particular fields that it requires. On Wednesday, 14 April 2021 at 21:10:07 UTC+1 springer wrote: > Si, I highly recommend checking out all the RefNotes resources (active > here recently, contributed by Mohammad). > > My own approach is to use a DYNAMIC TABLE (Mohammad's Shiraz) for each > reference-type. The lovely thing is that you can filter on a tag (or any > other filter condition), to see a column for each of the fields you care > about for that tag (or filter condition), with a row for each tiddler that > fits the condition (and the ability to "clone" new rows into existence). > Then you don't have a separate challenge of generating forms. Unless you > really want to. ;) > > -Springer > On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 3:03:02 PM UTC-4 si wrote: > >> I use TiddlyWiki to manage sources (books, movies etc), and I want to >> create an easy way to add tiddlers for individual sources. >> >> I have decided to add tiddlers that represent a "source-type", and then >> use it to generate a form that allows me to enter metadata for a new >> source. For example I might have a source type "Book", which is used to >> generate a form like this: >> >> Title: ... >> Author: ... >> Year: ... >> >> While "Movie" might have a form like this: >> >> Title: ... >> Director: ... >> Producer: ... >> >> Obviously I need to associate the required metadata-fields with their >> source-type. I can think of two ways to do this: >> >> - Add a field to each tiddler type called "required-fields" which >> lists the required metadata-fields. >> - Create separate tiddlers for each possible metadata-field, then tag >> them with any source-type that requires them. >> >> It's not obvious to me that there is any functional difference between >> these two options, but if I make a bad choice it will be difficult to >> change down the line. So my question is: *Is there a reason that one of >> these approaches is better than the other?* >> >> Thanks in advance for you help. >> > -- 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/26356c8a-3237-470e-9a4c-0a9873d37111n%40googlegroups.com.
