Fields and tables.

[Ste Wilson]

Prompted by Mats fields2tabke plug in and the link to Jed's Dynamic Tables I thought I'd have a play as I've been thinking of putting together a Materials Data tiddlywiki. (anyone out there done this?)

My use case would be to have materials data tables (e.g. http://stephenteacher.tiddlyspot.com/#Properties%20of%20Metals) but also to be able to link to aluminium for example and there find all the data relating to aluminium from any and all tables containing aluminium data.

I've had a play with Jed's Dynamic tables and hit a couple of initial snags.

katex is displayed raw, dollar signs and all. (used for chemical formula)

Can't edit fields for columns with a space in the title in the dynamic view on the table wizard.

Any help appreciated.

[Jed Carty]

In its current state the dynamic tables macros will not be able to get around the problems you mention. The built in restrictions on field names prevent spaces in names. The katex part is because it uses a view widget instead of transcluding.

I need to update the macros at some point. The view/transclude part can just be an input parameter but the naming means it would have to use data tiddlers which take away a lot of the simplicity. So that will probably be another macro.

[Stephen Wilson]

Thanks for the update Jed.