On Monday, June 17, 2019 at 6:41:11 AM UTC-4, Watt wrote: > > Hi Chris > Do I understand what you want correctly? > > Do you already have a lot of these genealogical records that you want to > convert from fields to data tiddlers? >
Yes and no. Working on 3rd or 4th literation. Started with TW ( 2.6.0 ) because of the portability. > Do you want to keep the existing fields and extract their content into a > data tiddler in the same tiddler's text area, for display convenience? > > or are you just starting to create these records and want to use a form > for data input into a data tiddler structure? > No, has to do with the having best possible ( in relation to personal knowledge base ) efficient access to information either for review or input. > Is your goal a unique data tiddler for each individual containing names, > birth, baptism, burial? > that how is currently set up : tiddlers for personal data ( and sources ) and additional ones for marriages, parents, children, events, etc. > How many individuals are you thinking of? > Its genealogy there are *always* lots of records. I decided to roll it back a bit last year and focus and direct lineage families . . . still looking about 1k+ individuals; before that it more like 2k+. You always keep info you come across ( even if it doesn't directly apply ) as someone else might need it. > I'm only just exploring data tiddlers myself but here are some > observations from a fellow beginner; > > Data tiddlers are sometimes easier for input and readability but the data > values can be more difficult to filter and manipulate for output. > > Fields are sometimes difficult for readability but are much easier for > manipulating and filtering output. > > Data tiddlers can greatly reduce the number of tiddlers needed, they are > readable and are easy to export but those benefits depend on how many > records you need to create and how you structure them. > > If you make a data tiddler for each individual then you'll still create > the same number of tiddlers as the fields method and might hit problems if > there are identical names. > > There are some useful tips on data tiddlers here; > > https://kookma.github.io/TW-Scripts/#datatiddler > > Data tiddlers may not exist forever in their current form, see the > discussion here; > https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/TiddlyWiki/GqqPZnp6VMI > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/d10bd4d2-de3f-4857-83b4-cdab6b0a747a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
