how can i return the "parent" tag of a Tiddler

[Tony K]

I need to return the Tag of the tag of the current tiddler

e.g. if a Tiddler is tagger "Document" and "Document" is tagged "Type", I want to know that this tiddler has already a "Type" assigned to it

can't figure out the filter for that

thanks for any insights

[Jed Carty]

I am not sure I understand the question correctly, but it sounds like you want something to do with the tagging or tags operator. https://tiddlywiki.com/#tagging%20Operator https://tiddlywiki.com/#tags%20Operator

something like '[is[current]tags[]tagging[]]' or maybe '[is[current]tags[]tags[]]'

[TonyM]

Tony K

As Jed Voiced. Your question is not clear enough, what is a type and what are its values? You need to provide more details.

If the document tiddler is tagged with more than one tiddler you need a way to know which of these tiddlers is what you have nominated as the parent.

• It is more complicated than what you want now but Bimlas has the kin filter (search on Tiddlywiki.com) which can do this
• The ToCP macro allows only one parent for every tiddler (stored in a field), and this allows to climb a tree to one root tiddler.
  
• Nested lists can be used to achieve what I am guessing is your requirements, a sophisticated filter may also.

Regards

Tony

Regards

Tony

[Tony K]

Hello Jed - Tony M

sorry I provided an example and thought it was clear ..... here i go again

in my workflow every tiddler needs to have a "Type"... so what is did is 

1. Created the different "types" of tiddlers (These are all tags)

• Document
• Code
• Note
• etc...

2. each of of these Tags is itself tagged by "Type"

visually it will be like

• Type (This is a tag)
• Document (This is a tag)
• Tiddler1
• Note (This is a tag)
• Tiddler 2
• Code (This is a tag)
• Tiddler 3

what I want is get a list of tiddlers that have no "Type" i.e. not tagged with any of "Document" - "note" - "Code" etc.... and I want to do it dynamically for when I add another "Type"

hope i was able to explain my messy mind lol and thanks for the help

[Tony K]

This was solved by 

<$list filter="[all[current]tags[]tags[]]" />

from https://tiddlywiki.narkive.com/N7cGPxdK/tw-how-to-get-the-parent-tag-of-another-tag