Thanks for your fast answer, Eric. I think I've understood. I'll try and
test tomorrow (middle of night here), and report.
Le samedi 15 mai 2021 à 22:53:53 UTC+2, Eric Shulman a écrit :
> On Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 12:31:44 PM UTC-7 jacque...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> I'm adopting Eric's TiddlyTools/Time/Calendar. Thanks to him.
>> I have a problem when conflicting colors happen for a same day. How to
>> force priority on the color I'd want ?
>>
>> *An instance :*
>>
>> - I have a timeline for team members absences, coded "OldLace". Fred
>> is not available Monday and Tuesday next.
>> - I decide to settle a meeting, even without Fred that monday. Team
>> meeting are "LightGreen" coded events.
>> - When I publish the calendar, I want Monday color to be LightGreen
>> for everybody, but it remains OldLace.
>>
>> When there are multiple events for a given date, they are *sorted by the
> title of the EventList or Timeline* that defines them and the *date color
> is determined by the first event* in the resulting list.
>
> Here's the code from the showDay() macro that does the work:
> <$wikify name="colors" text="<$list filter=<<todays_events>>>{{{
> [<currentTiddler>split[;]nth[1]get[eventcolor]] }}} </$list>">
> <$set name="eventsbg"
>
> filter="[enlist<colors>first[]addprefix[background:]addsuffix[;]else<eventsbg>]">
>
> If you have a Timeline named "Absences" (using the OldLace color) and an
> EventList named "Meetings" (using the LightGreen color), then the OldLace
> color will be applied, since "Absences" comes before "Meetings",
> alphabetically.
>
> The only way to influence the color that is used is to rename the Timeline
> or the EventList so that the event color that you want to have priority
> occurs first in the sorted list of events. For example, you could rename
> "Meetings" to "1Meetings" so it comes before "Absences", or rename
> "Absences" to "ZAbsences" so it comes after "Meetings".
>
> However, renaming a Timeline can be quite a nuisance, because the name of
> the Timeline is also used to tag each individual tiddler that belongs to
> that Timeline. Thus, you would have to change not only the name of the
> "Absences" Timeline tiddler itself, but also update the corresponding
> "Absences" tag on every individual tiddler belonging to that Timeline.
>
> Fortunately, renaming an EventList is much easier than renaming a
> Timeline, since there is only one tiddler involved with no extra tagging
> issues. Note that even if you rename the "Meetings" EventList tiddler to
> "1Meetings", you can also give that tiddler a caption of "Meetings", so
> that the leading "1" won't appear in the Calendar interface.
>
> When I wrote this part of the Calendar, I had considered adding extra code
> to address this issue by allowing explicit specification of the color
> order, but all the implementations I could think of would have added
> considerable complexity and processing overhead to the Calendar rendering
> logic.
>
> I hope this explanation isn't too confusing. Let me know how it goes...
>
> -e
>
>>
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