Hi Tones,
Thanks again for looking into this. Please forgive my fault of not making
my point clear. My hope is to make the table cells auto-update themselves
with both text and format. So far I find the list-link to be quite
convenient as it allows me to assign values to the caption field and
control the layout. For instance, my tiddler titled "Cedric Richmond
(D-LA)" is assigned a caption field "//Cedric Richmond//,,Afro,,", so
whenever the list-link widget calls for this tiddler in a table cell, it
will show as a link with the desired format. If the chair changes from
Cedric Richmond to Joni Ernst, I only need to edit Cedric Richmond's office
field (e.g. of1[27341089]), transfer the value to Joni Ernst's office field
entry, and put "__Joni Ernst__,,Female,," in her caption field, and many
different tables involving these tiddlers will all auto-update. If Cedric
Richmond wins the chair seat back again, I only need to alter the office
field without touching the captions. Better still, since I have a
consistent set of rules on formatting, I only need to assign a fixed value
to the caption field and there is no need of further updates.
The list widget so far seems not to be able to do this. Its formatting
process requires me to manually set the format for each table as it only
regulates the format of the <<currentTiddler>>, but as the called
<<currentTiddler>> changes, its format may also need to change. So when
Joni Ernst succeeds Cedric Richmond, I need to go back to each table, and
change the codes from <$link> ''//{{!!title}}//,,Afro,,''</$link> to <$link>
''__{{!!title}}__,,Female,,''</$link>w. And if Cedric Richmond wins the
chair back later, I need to again go back to these tables and change the
codes again, which contravenes my hope of making the tables auto-update
themselves without manually visiting each and every of them.
Given these , would it be possible to find a simple tweak to the list-link
macro's template so that I can get rid of the bullet point in my
tiddlywiki? I figure this might be the easiest route but don't know how to
do it. I could also be completely wrong and would appreciate any help you
patiently lend.
Best
Harry
在2021年7月25日星期日 UTC-4 上午1:39:36<TW Tones> 写道：
> Harry,
>
> The content inside the list widget is the template for each result it
> produces., unless you use the "variable" parameter.
>
> It depends on your list widget but try;
> "//<<currentTiddler>>//,,Afro,,"
> this and you will see its still not as you expect, this is because the
> link mechaisium imposes some styling. Also the bold uses two single quotes
> '' not one double quote "
>
> You can refer to the title directly rather than use the variable name if
> its currentTiddler
> ''//{{!!title}}//,,Afro,,''
> or
> ''// <$text text=<<varname>>/> //,,Afro,,''
>
> But the above will not also be a link so do this (defaults
> to=<<currentTiddler>>)
>
> <$link> ''//{{!!title}}//,,Afro,,''</$link>
>
> If you needed the title to come from a variable instead you can use the
> link widget and convert variable to simple text so all the formatting
> applies before it gets blue and linkified
>
> <$link to=<<varname>> >''//<$text text=<<varname>>/>//,,Afro,,''</$link>
>
> Regards
> Tones
>
>
>
> On Sunday, 25 July 2021 at 13:44:56 UTC+10 Harry wrote:
>
>> Hi Tones,
>>
>> Really appreciate your help and patience, and sorry for bothering you
>> with the seemingly endless petty issues! I tried the list widget code you
>> suggested, but it only shows "Cedric Richmond" as a clickable link, while
>> the list-links macros shows "Cedric Richmond" as a clickable link and
>> allows formatting (for instance, if I put "//Cedric Richmond//,,Afro,," in
>> the caption field, the link will be reformatted as I desire, see pic
>> attached). Is there anyway that the list widget can do the similar thing,
>> i.e. outputting the link in a designated format? This could achieve what I
>> have in the attached pic and also get rid of the bullet point. Thanks again
>> for your time and generous help to my nitpicking questions!
>>
>> Best
>> Harry
>> 在2021年7月24日星期六 UTC-4 下午10:35:02<TW Tones> 写道：
>>
>>> Harry,
>>>
>>> I suggested the list widget <$list not the list-links macro who uses
>>> bullet points for the list.
>>>
>>> Also I would be inclined to set your values outside the table and keep
>>> it simple in side the table
>>>
>>> <$set name=agchair filter="[field:of1[27341089]]"> <!-- if this works?
>>> -->
>>> <$set name=incumbent-chair value={{senate agriculture
>>> committee!!incumbent_chair}} ><!-- example like my previous one-->
>>>
>>> | !Committee | !Chair |
>>> | !Agriculture | <<agchair>> |
>>>
>>> </$set></$set>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sunday, 25 July 2021 at 11:41:30 UTC+10 Harry wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Tones,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your reminder! I have looked into the dynamic table but it
>>>> seems that it does not allow me to customize the headers of columns and
>>>> rows. Following your lead, I have tried to use list-links, but am still
>>>> hitting some roadblocks. The code I'm currently trying is :
>>>> | !Committee | !Chair |
>>>> | !Agriculture | <<list-links "[field:of1[27341089]]
>>>> [field:of2[27341089]]">> |
>>>>
>>>> 27341089 is a unique code I assign for agriculture chair, so when a new
>>>> chair takes place, I'll update the relevant tiddler with the fields to
>>>> make
>>>> sure they auto-update in the table. However, the layout has a dot (see the
>>>> attached pic, yellow shaded). Is there anyway that I can tweak the macro
>>>> to
>>>> remove the dot? Or should I try some different routes? Thanks a million!
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>> Harry
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> TW Tones <anthony...@gmail.com> 于2021年7月23日周五 下午8:08写道：
>>>>
>>>>> 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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