New macro list-pages: Looking for a simpler solution

[Mohammad Rahmani]

I have developed a list-pages macros similar to list-links, but it is a little lengthy

\define list-pages(filter, entries-per-page:5, template, stateTid:"pagingTid")
<$vars stateTid=<<qualify xx$/state/$stateTid$>> >
<$vars total-entries={{{ [subfilter<__filter__>count[]] }}}
page-number={{{[<stateTid>get[text]] ~[[1]]}}} >
<$vars low={{{[<page-number>subtract[1]multiply<__entries-per-page__>]}}}  
       high={{{[<page-number>multiply<__entries-per-page__>]}}} >

<!-- create nav buttons --->
<$list filter="[<page-number>compare:number:lt[2]then[yes]else[no]]" variable=state>
<$button disabled=<<state>> >Prev
<$action-listops $tiddler=<<stateTid>> $field=text $subfilter="+[subtract[1]] ~[[1]]"/>
</$button>
</$list>
<$list filter="[<high>compare:number:gteq<total-entries>then[yes]else[no]]" variable=state>
<$button disabled=<<state>>>Next
<$action-listops $tiddler=<<stateTid>> $field=text $subfilter="+[add[1]] ~[[2]]"/>
</$button>
</$list>

Displaying <$text text={{{[<low>add[1]]}}}/> through <<high>> of <<total-entries>> Results

<$list filter="[subfilter<__filter__>first<high>] -[subfilter<__filter__>first<low>]" template=<<__template__>> />

</$vars>
</$vars>
</$vars>
\end


It accepts:

* any Tiddlywiki filter or filter combinations

* it accepts template (so it is very powerful in creating different outputs

* can be used in a tiddler several times (has stateTid)

* number of output per page can be set

This macro can be hacked and used for situations where you have too many outputs. Paging prevents a long output and hence slows down TW performance!

Evaluations

To give a try, download attached JSON and drag and drop into https://tiddlywiki.com/

Look at the Test tiddler

As an example a simple template was created for test purposes.

Question:

What simpler solution do you propose?

What improvement do you suggest? 

Best wishes

Mohammad

[Mohammad Rahmani]

In the call to qualify the xx$/state is used on purpose to see the stateTid

Remove xx after test!

Best wishes

Mohammad

[Eskha]

Hello Mohammad,

Thank you for this useful macro.

I was wondering if it was possible to integrate it with Tobias list-search macro (see below) since it would be a very powerful combination?

Best regards,

Eskha

\define list-search(

filter:"[tags[]]",

search:"search:title",

state:"$:/temp/list-search", 

template:"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate",

placeholder:"Filter",

limit:100000

)

<div>

<$edit-text

tiddler="$state$"

type="search"

tag="input"

default=""

placeholder="$placeholder$"/>

</div>

<$reveal state="$state$" type="match" text="">

<$list filter="$filter$+[limit[$limit$]]" template="$template$"/>

</$reveal>

<$reveal state="$state$" type="nomatch" text="">

<$list filter="$filter$+[$search${$state$}]+[limit[$limit$]]" template="$template$"/>

</$reveal>

\end

[Mohammad Rahmani]

Hi Eshka,

 There is a similar macro in Shiraz! 

To have a list-search like behavior, you can call list-pages as below

<$macrocall $name=list-pages filter={{some-tiddler}} ...

Then having a edit-text like below

<$edit-text

tiddler="some-tiddler"

type="search"

tag="input"

default=""

....

That's all. 

You may write your own macro to call list-pages as above. something like list-search-pages ;-)

Best wishes

Mohammad

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[Mohammad Rahmani]

Eska,

In tiddlywiki.com give a try for the code below. I assume you have you have already the list-pages working in  tiddlywiki.com

\define list-search-pages()
<$edit-text
tiddler="some-tiddler"
type="search"
tag="input"
default=""/>

><$macrocall $name=list-pages filter={{some-tiddler}} entries-per-page=10  />

\end

Then enter in the edit box something like this: [tag[Definitions]]

Best wishes

Mohammad

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 6:41 PM Eskha <khask...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[History Buff]

Mohammad,

Love this macro. I was wondering how I could use this with dynamic tables such that I could say display only 10 rows at a time and page through them.

Thanks,

Damon

[Mohammad Rahmani]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 1:24 AM History Buff <damon.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

Mohammad,

Hi Damon,

Love this macro. I was wondering how I could use this with dynamic tables such that I could say display only 10 rows at a time and page through them.

Sure, you should be able to hack dynamic tables and add this feature yourself.

I plan to push an update and add this feature to Shiraz (e.g. Dynamic tables)

 

Thanks,

Best wishes

Mohammad

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[Eskha]

Thank you Mohammad for your answer.

I can confirm that it is working on TiddlyWiki.

However it is not exactly the behavior I was expecting.

Indeed when using the list-search macro, the filter option is different from the text input.

You define the filter in the macro-call, for instance "[tag[Definitions]]" (or use default filter "[tags[]]").

Then, the text you write into the text input narrow down the search to the filtered titles matching the text input.

For instance (on Tiddlywiki.com) with the filter option "[tag[Definitions]]" and the text "URI", you would only see two elements in the list: Data URI and URI.

In your use-case, the text input is replacing the filter option.

For other, I add a link to your well explained "demo/list-search-macro" tiddler:

Shiraz 2.1.2 — extended markups: styles, macros, images, tables (kookma.github.io) 

To summarize, what would be my "ideal" behavior would be that an optional "entries-per-page" attribute exists in list-search!

Best regards,

Eskha

[Mohammad Rahmani]

Hi Eskha

I got your point! You want to refine the search result!

I created an issue https://github.com/kookma/TW-Shiraz/issues/16 to look at this and hopefully add the feature to Shiraz!

Best wishes

Mohammad

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[Eskha]

Hello  Mohammad,

Exactly, I want to refine the search result.

(Useful when the filter returns a lot of matches).

 

Thank you for having a look at it.

Best regards,

Eskha

[History Buff]

Thank you sir, I appreciate it.

One further question concerning dynamic tables. I know how to sort the tables by column. The question I have is this: is there a way to have a secondary sort column sort? For example, I first want to sort by Column A, but then I want everything sorted by Column B. How would that be done?

Thanks again,

Damon

[Mohammad Rahmani]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 12:35 AM History Buff <damon.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you sir, I appreciate it.

You are welcome. The new update of dynamic tables in SHiraz will be pushed to github soon! I have implemented the pagination.

One further question concerning dynamic tables. I know how to sort the tables by column. The question I have is this: is there a way to have a secondary sort column sort? For example, I first want to sort by Column A, but then I want everything sorted by Column B. How would that be done?

Unfortunately no! I have added a ticket to see  this possibility in future!

By the you may know dynamic tables uses the philosophy of TiddlyTables from Alan Aldrich: http://tiddlytables.tiddlyspot.com/

I recommend having a look at TiddlyTables as it is a very powerful tool in creating and manipulating dynamic tables.

 

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[History Buff]

Thanks. I'm looking forward to the update and I will check out TiddlyTables again.

[Mohammad Rahmani]

Hi Eskha,

 This is revision 2 of list-pages. It now combines the features of list-search by Tobias Beer and the first release of list-pages.

 I have attached the second release called list-pages-search. 

Simply download attached file and drag and drop into https://tiddlywiki.com/

Open the Test List-Pages-Search and see how it works.

Please let me know if it works as you explained! I will later add this to Yazd/TW-Scripts for future references.

Best wishes

Mohammad

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 6:41 PM Eskha <khask...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Mohammad Rahmani]

Hi Eskha,

Please use this second attached file. The previous one had a small issue in variable definition.

Best wishes

Mohammad

[Eskha]

Hello  Mohammad,

It is perfectly what I was expecting!
Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Eskha