[TW5] Tag "alias" in connection with a navigating TOC

[The Bo]

Hey,

I'm looking for a way to set some kind of an "tag alias" for my current project.

The problem is that I'm using an expandable-toc for navigation where I have to use very large titles, e.g.:

01 personal management
>011 application (tag: 01 personal management)
>012 ...

To make it a bit more user-friendly it would be perfect to tag "01" instead of "01 personal management".

I would really appreciate your comments and suggestions!

Kind regards
The Bo

[Eric Shulman]

On Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 2:57:29 AM UTC-7, The Bo wrote:

I'm looking for a way to set some kind of an "tag alias" for my current project.

The problem is that I'm using an expandable-toc for navigation where I have to use very large titles, e.g.:

01 personal management
>011 application (tag: 01 personal management)
>012 ...

To make it a bit more user-friendly it would be perfect to tag "01" instead of "01 personal management".

Here's an alternative approach:

* title your tiddlers with the short code numbers

* use the caption field to provide the longer text

The <<toc-*>> macro automatically uses the caption field if present (with fallback to the title).

enjoy,

-e

Eric Shulman

TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios

InsideTiddlyWiki: The Missing Manuals

[The Bo]

Hey,

in this case I would miss the titles of open tiddlers.

Regards
The Bo

[Eric Shulman]

On Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 5:32:44 AM UTC-7, The Bo wrote:

in this case I would miss the titles of open tiddlers.

You could tweak the $:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/title and replace

<$view field="title"/>

with

<<toc-caption>>

so that the caption text is also displayed at the top of the open tiddler.

-e

[The Bo]

Hey Eric,

my first idea was, this works perfect for me.
But now I see that if I search for "personal management" I will get no hit. Even if I search for "01" I won't see the caption.

Regards
The Bo

[RichardWilliamSmith]

Hi The Bo,

If you overwrite the core tiddler $:/core/ui/DefaultSearchResultList, you can add a section to make it search the caption field too.

\define searchResultList()
//<small>{{$:/language/Search/Matches/Title}}</small>//
<$list filter="[!is[system]search:title{$(searchTiddler)$}sort[title]limit[250]]" template="$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate"/>
//<small>Caption Matches</small>//
<$list filter="[!is[system]search:caption{$(searchTiddler)$}sort[title]limit[250]]" template="$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate"/>
//<small>{{$:/language/Search/Matches/All}}</small>//
<$list filter="[!is[system]search{$(searchTiddler)$}sort[title]limit[250]]" template="$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate"/>
\end
<<searchResultList>>

This is quite hacky - you'd need to re-do it each time you upgrade to a new version - but I'm not sure what the preferred way to over-ride the UI actually is.

Regards.

Richard

[The Bo]

Hi Richard,

Your hint is very good. I would prefer to implement it into "matches title" and "matches all" search maybe as a fallback from caption to title.

I already found a way to show the caption with a fallback to title at the results by changing the $:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate

<$view field="title">

to

 <$view field="caption"><$view field="title">

Regards
The Bo