sort tiddlers based on the output of a macro applied to each of them

[Eric N]

Hi,

A filter outputs tiddlers x, y, z and I want to sort them.

Not by their title or by any field, but by the output of a macro applied to each of them, in my case a macro that returns the breadcrumbs of a tiddler.

Example of desired sorted output for tiddlers x y and z:

path > to > y

qath > to > too > tooo > z

rath > za > ze > x

(which is sorted alphabetically by breadcrumbs, and not by tiddlers titles)

I first thought I'd run two list loops :

- first one assigns the breadcrumbs value of the tiddlers in a dedicated field in that tiddler

- second one outputs the field : ....get[dedicated_field]sort[] , and done !

Unfortunately I don't know the mechanism to write the first loop. 

Is it possible ?

Best,

E.

[scott....@gmail.com]

The conversation here has moved to https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/.  Could you repost the question there, where it's much more likely to get answers?

In the meantime, you might look up the sortsub operator (https://tiddlywiki.com/#sortsub%20Operator), which should allow you to avoid adding such temporary fields, sorting tiddlers based on the result of calling a subfillter... which can call your macro or procedure.

[PMario]

You may have a look at the trails plugin: https://wikilabs.github.io/editions/trails/

-Mario

[Eric Nowak]

Hi Mario, 

This is indeed the plugin I am using to generate the breadcrumbs. 

What I was wondering is : how to sort elements by a function output (here: trail / breadcrumbs applied to filter output) instead of by title or by any field of a filter output, the latter being what sort[] is made for.

Hope it makes sense :)

@scott: I’ve seen you’ve moved the question to  https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/, thanks !

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[scott....@gmail.com]

> @scott: I’ve seen you’ve moved the question to  https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/, thanks !

Not quite.  Things in the Google Group are copied to the forum.  But it's read-only there, and no one can respond, except back here inside Google Groups.  Many people won't bother, even if they know how to do so.

That's why I encourage you to create a topic there.

  -- Scott