Hi Si, I have been thinking about an approach like yours but have not implemented anything yet. It seems important to me that some fields may be of a different kind than just text to be entered. Like choosing from a list of options (with f.i. the select widget or radio widget). My 2 cts.
Greetings, Sjaak On Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 4:27:48 PM UTC+2 Anjar wrote: > Hi Si, > > Have a look at this post: > https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/Q3vU6tnPffI/m/WNguU1p6BwAJ > > It's about using premade templates to create new tiddlers; you can of > course add a form if you prefer that, instead of editing the new tiddler > directly > > Best, > Anders > > torsdag 15. april 2021 kl. 16:06:52 UTC+2 skrev si: > >> @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/f61b4c8d-33e4-4f10-ade1-7e5191024b19n%40googlegroups.com.
