It worked like a charm! Thanks a lot.
On Saturday, July 8, 2017 at 10:52:10 PM UTC+2, Mark S. wrote:
>
> Tobias <$setvar> and TW5 <$set> interpret filters differently, returning
> list items that internally have square brackets. My work-around was to
> strip them off with the removeprefix and removesuffix filter operators
> before looking for tags. Please excuse that I've changed the criteria to
> meet my available test data:
>
> \define predb() [[
> \define postdb() ]]
> <$setvars _r="[tag[ToDo]!tag[Template]random[1]]" random="[r]">
> <<random>> has tags --
> <$list filter="[title<random>]
> [title<random>removeprefix<predb>removesuffix<postdb>]+[tags[]]" >
> <$view field="title"/>
> </$list>
> </$setvars>
>
> This seems to work and take into account titles with spaces and titles
> without. Hopefully.
>
> Good luck,
> Mark
>
> On Friday, July 7, 2017 at 5:07:30 PM UTC-7, David Sevilla wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just installed tobibeer's random and setvars plugins in order to
>> generate a random tiddler among those with a certain tag:
>>
>> Random document: <$setvars _r="[tag[Document]!tag[Template]random[1]]"
>> random="\{{{\ [r] \}}}\"
>> >
>> <<random>>
>> </$setvars>
>>
>> So far, so good. But now I'd like to list the tags of that random
>> tiddler, and that's where I am stuck :) I am basically trying to get a
>> filter like [[<<random>>]tags[]] to work inside a widget (text, list...).
>> My attempts:
>>
>> 1.
>> <$list filter="[[<<random>>]tags[]]" />
>>
>> should give me one "ok" per tag, but it prints nothing. I don't know
>> why.
>>
>> 2.
>> <$text text=<<random>> />
>>
>> gives me the tiddler name between {{{ }}} and, if not a simple name,
>> also in [[ ]]. I don't know how I could cut that string so I can feed it to
>> a filter (or combine strings to make one, see point 4).
>>
>> 3. Removing the triple braces in the definition of "random" does get rid
>> of the text's curly braces of step 2, and if the tiddler name is simple
>> enough there are no square brackets, but still the code of item 1 is not
>> finding any tags.
>>
>> 4. At step 3, and with no-square-bracket names, I did <$list
>> filter="[["+<<random>>+"]tags[]]"> ok </$list> obtaining a certain mess (I
>> guess one cannot just add strings with "+", or I don't have such strings).
>>
>> 5. Just in case there was something weird between the initial angled
>> bracket of the widget and the double ones of <<random>>, I substituted it
>> with $macrocall. Nothing useful from that one.
>>
>> Any suggestions are very welcome.
>>
>
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