Harry,
There are arrange of approaches you can use here. There are already *dynamic
table* solutions or the content of your table can refer to variables or
transclusion such that if they change it is reflected in your table. I tend
to populate tables using the list widget so its the result of the list that
finds the content even when it changes.
Using your example the table cell could contain {{senate agriculture
committee!! incumbent_chair}} which means it can be nothing but the value
there in.
Regards
Tones
On Saturday, 24 July 2021 at 09:08:25 UTC+10 Harry wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a niche question about creating an auto-updating table and wonder
> if anyone can give me some guidance.
>
> To illustrate the specific context, let's say I'm trying to create a table
> of all chairs and ranking memebers of the senate committees. The table
> would look like this:
> | Committee | Chair | Ranking Member|
> | Agriculture | 1 | 2 |
> | Armed Service | 3 | 4 |
>
> When the agriculture chair changes from “Jane Doe (FL)” to "John Smith", I
> have to manually change the code entry of cell 1 from "[[Jane Doe|Jane Doe
> (FL)]],,D,," to "John Smith,,R,,".
>
> Instead of manually putting codes into cells 1 through 4, I wonder if
> there is a way that the table could update itself, since the chairs and
> ranking members change from time to time.
>
> What I'm currently exploring is to creat two fields in each committee's
> tiddler. Say for tiddler "senate agriculture committee", I creat two fields
> "incumbent_chair" and "incumbent_ranking". My hope is that there can be
> some way that links cell 1 with the "incumbent_chair", so that whenever I
> change the "incumbent_chair" field, cell 1 in the table above would
> automatically update itself (with all the formatting noted above). So far
> this is not working out, and the best I can do now is to use "<$view
> tiddler= field=/>" which only allows the table to update cell 1 as the text
> of the field, not as a tiddler that can be clicked and redirected, nor can
> I add specific formatting as mentioned in the example above.
>
> Is there anyway that I can write a code to reflect this need? Very much
> appreciate all the help!
>
>
> Best
>
> Harry
>
>
>
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