Thanks Soren/Mike,
I got it to work exactly as you have explained :)
BTW congrats on Grok TiddlyWiki, i am already reading through it ,and find
it extremely well written and easy to understand for beginners like mys self
Thanks again Soren and mike :)
On Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 1:11:02 AM UTC+2 Soren Bjornstad wrote:
> So the reason sorting by the "priority" field doesn't work is because the
> field literally contains the text "{{!!severity}}{{!!impact}}". Those
> transclusions only get processed and turned into a series of 1's when the
> field is *wikified*, which normally happens right before it's displayed
> within the tiddler. If you access the priority field through a filter or
> pass it as the value of an HTML/widget attribute, it will still just
> contain the text. (More on wikification.
> <https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/#Wikification>)
>
> That's probably not a great way to do it anyway, since you have to
> manually put that text in every tiddler.
>
> The point of Mike's snippet wasn't the tag part (I don't think tags have
> anything to do with your use case) – that was just a placeholder for
> whatever filter steps you needed to select the relevant tiddlers. The
> important part was the *sortsub* operator, which runs a filter expression
> against each element to determine how to sort it. In your case, I think you
> would want something to the effect of:
>
> \define sortformula() [{!!severity}add{!!impact}]
>
> <$list filter="[status[In House]] [status[With Vendor]]
> +[!sortsub:integer<sortformula>]">
> <$link/> (priority <$text text={{{ [{!!severity}add{!!impact}] }}}/>)<br>
> </$list>
>
> (For this to work you need to switch to the actual numbers, rather than a
> string of 1's. Also note that the filter you gave above for tiddlers with a
> particular value in the status field is incorrect because it contains a
> space after the word *status* – a space isn't allowed there.)
>
> The {{{}}} allow you to transclude the result of a filter expression
> <https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/#Filters%20and%20Transclusions>...so
> that's how you "view the outcome of the mathematical operations".
>
> On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 5:58:08 PM UTC-5 mohamed...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>> Thanks Mike,
>>
>> so basically i am trying to do is simulate a ticketing tool.. , and
>> assign prioritys to tiddlers i am using as tasks , 2 criteria(severity ,
>> impact) or more that add up to a given priority/ranking ,
>>
>> so tiddler A is called " archive data"
>>
>> field x is "severity" and has value 1111111
>> filed Y is "impact" and has value 111111111
>> Field z is "priority" and has value {{!!severity}}{{!!impact}} -->
>> translating to 1111111111111111
>>
>> tiddler b is called "restart server"
>>
>> field x is "severity" and has value 11
>> filed Y is "impact" and has value 11111111111
>> Field z is "priority" and has value {{!!severity}}{{!!impact}} -->
>> translating to 1111111111111
>>
>>
>>
>> they also have another field "status" which can be either " In House " or
>> " With Vendor" , so thats another 4th field that will hold any of these 2
>> values .
>>
>> then...
>>
>> <$list filter=
>> "[status[In House]][status[With Vendor]]+[sort[priority]]">
>>
>>
>>
>> Now ,The reason i am using ones in the field values (ie 11111) is because
>> , i understand you cant do math in fields .. which is another problem ..
>>
>> but then my thinking was ,i run a filter on all tiddlers which has "In
>> house " or "With Vendor " in the status field values
>> [status [In House]][status[With Vendor]]
>>
>> then sort them using the priority field , and that should sort the
>> tiddlers with the higher ranking at top, and thats when i realized the
>> sorting doesn work , hence this post.
>>
>> i have few questions
>>
>> if i understood correctly you are saying this can be done using tags
>> instead ?
>> so can it be done using field instead (so instead of [tag[sortbyfield],
>> could it be [status [In House]?
>> also how can i view the outcome of the mathematical operations?
>>
>> and finally , now that you know what i am after , is there a better way
>> of doing all this ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 4:41:19 PM UTC+2 mwik...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> For instance, in your specific example you could use a filter like
>>> [{!!x}multiply[10]add{!!y}] in the sortsub for your list of tiddlers
>>> containing x and y ... you don't need a z field for this particular use.
>>>
>>> So if you had a bunch of tiddlers tagged with "sortbyfield" you can do:
>>>
>>> \define ssfilter() [{!!x}multiply[10]add{!!y}]
>>>
>>> <$list filter="[tag[sortbyfield]sortsub:integer<ssfilter>]"/>
>>>
>>> This works for your particular example that you provided because you can
>>> do math in the filter. Not sure how easy it would be in the general sense.
>>>
>>> /Mike
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 9:03:46 AM UTC-3 Michael Wiktowy wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not exactly what you want but if you can express your combination of
>>>> field x and field y as a filter expression, you should be able to use
>>>> sortsub.
>>>> /Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, May 17, 2021 at 10:45:20 PM UTC-3 mohamed...@hotmail.com
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi ,
>>>>>
>>>>> is it possible to sort transcluded /referenced values?
>>>>>
>>>>> so i have tiddler 1 which has 3 fields ,field x , field y and field z
>>>>>
>>>>> field x = 1
>>>>> field y = 2
>>>>> field z= {{!!field x}}{{!! field y}} --> which translates to "12"
>>>>>
>>>>> Now i have the same exact thing happening for 4 or 5 other tiddlers
>>>>> with different values for field x and field y , and field z referencing
>>>>> them
>>>>>
>>>>> now i am doing a list filter , that lists said tiddlers , and putting
>>>>> a sort at the end ..
>>>>>
>>>>> so something like <$list filter= criteria ..... and then towards the
>>>>> end [sort[ field z ]]">
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The sort is working, i also used nsort with no luck , so is there
>>>>> something i am doing wrong, or referenced values cannot be used as a
>>>>> criteria for a sort ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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