On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 8:24:17 PM UTC-6, TonyM wrote: > > Folks, > > Recent exploration of this suggests if we could rename fields yet retain > their value, and handle prefixes much could be achived > > eg The "menu tiddler" > http://127.0.0.1:8088/Local-Instances/Development/MyMenus.html#MySearch > Uses a prefix to identify fields, then uses a macro to extract the suffix > of a field. > > This can be used to encode fields with more information than just their > name and value >
I do this a lot, Tony. Works well. > > I use the field name to sort the fields as they display (default > behaviour), however I imagine there is also a hidden (physical) sort order, > that would be nice to drag and drop to customise field order and thus the > way they may appear in forms. > > I do this too. A field (or Tiddler text) is used to store what I call the "sequence". The field names are repeated there in the order they are to be displayed. Also, if a particular member of the set is *not* mentioned in the sequence, it is not displayed (which is also useful). Coda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywikidev@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/8648ddbc-ba09-4de8-b1ce-fb1f54800b82%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
