Wikipedia like sidebar

[Corey Woodworth]

A lot of wikipedia topics have a sort of table on the right hand side. The tables are often formatted differently, for example, the table for countries has maps and flags and lists the current leader, capitol etc. etc. The sidebar for presidents have portraits and links to previous and subsequent presidents etc. However, most all of the sidebars in one category (like Presidents) are similar to each other. This is a really handy way to quickly get to and organize important small facts about whatever that page is about. This same sort of tool is used in many other wikis too, like on wikia, and memory alpha, because it is a very effective tool. Is there a simple way, or plugin for TiddlyWiki to accomplish the same thing? I know I could manually create a table, but that would involve a decent amount of initial work, followed by a LOT of copy and pasting for each similar tiddler. A plugin, or something similar would be hugely helpful in the regard, does something like that exist? Thanks!

[Lost Admin]

I don't know if such a thing exists, but a fairly simple way to create one would be to make a View Template that generates a table from the fields of a tiddler and displays them in a table. The view template could use a custom CSS tiddler to size and place the table on the right.

You can tie View Templates to specific tags, so you can make different types of view templates for different types of tiddlers with different fields.

[Corey Woodworth]

Thank you, this is how I mostly imagined something like this might be implemented. I've not messed with View Templates or custom CSS tiddlers yet (though I am familiar with CSS more generically). I'll do some research and see if I might be able to do this on my own, but any additional guidance would certainly be appreciated!.

[whatever]

Hey!

TW5 or TWC? For TWC, there's InfoboxTablesPlugin [1]. New version is pending, btw.

[1] http://infoboxes.tiddlyspot.com

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[Corey Woodworth]

Oh, sorry for not being explicit. I use TW5. By 'New Version' do you mean a version for TW5?

[whatever]

Hey!
Sadly no. But if someone wants to transcode that for TW5, I'll be happy to help with advice.

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