Autogeneration of table content from other tiddlers

[David Shaw]

OK, this is probably a request too far but if I never ask, I'll never
know :-)

I am a keen home wine maker and I want to shift my paper logs, which I
keep misplacing, into a TW. I want to keep a separate journal tiddler
for each batch of wine I make, containing data such as start date,
weights of ingredients, date the yeast was added, dates when I need to
take certain actions, tasting notes and so on. This isn't the hard part.

This is the hard part.

I would like to have an 'overview' tiddler containing all the important
information so I can see at a glance what the status of each wine is,
what's due to be done, whether I've missed any important actions and so
on and I would like to be able to generate this data automagically from
the individual tiddlers - I don't mind if I have to click a button to do it.

Ideally, what I would like is something of the format

Wine | Start date | Yeast added | Fermentation end | Date racked/bottled

sorted in reverse chronological order (so that I don't have to keep
scrolling to the bottom to see what's happening now). It would also be
nice if the Wine column linked to the appropriate tiddler. And the
cherry on the cake would be some sort of CSS magic to highlight any
important dates I've missed - which would obviously require some sort of
'done' indicator in the journal tiddler.

Clearly, the journal tiddlers would have to be in a standard format but
I don't really care what that format is, just so long as it's clear
what's happening when I read it.

Is this within the realms of possibility, or shall I just have to try
and discipline myself into doing it manually?

Many thanks,

David Shaw

[Eric Shulman]

> I am a keen home wine maker and I want to shift my paper logs, which I
> keep misplacing, into a TW.  I want to keep a separate journal tiddler
> for each batch of wine I make, containing data such as start date,
> weights of ingredients, date the yeast was added, dates when I need to
> take certain actions, tasting notes and so on.  This isn't the hard part.
>

> I would like to have an 'overview' tiddler containing all the important
> information so I can see at a glance what the status of each wine is,
> what's due to be done, whether I've missed any important actions and so
> on and I would like to be able to generate this data automagically from
> the individual tiddlers - I don't mind if I have to click a button to do it.

http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#GridPlugin

can generate tables from individual tiddlers, containing named slices,
sections, and/or custom fields.

Tiddlers can be selected by matching a specified tag value or, if you
have MatchTagsPlugin installed, you can match against a complex
Boolean expression of tag values.

Each row in the resulting table represents slice, section and/or field
data gathered from an individual matched tiddler and the row heading
is a link to the matched tiddler.

Optionally, you can click to *edit-in-place* on table cell contents.
Changes are automatically written back to the corresponding slice,
section or field when you finished editing the cell (esc key cancels
the change).

If you install TableSortingPlugin (written by Saq Imtiaz), grid tables
are sortable by clicking on the column headings.

enjoy,
-e
Eric Shulman
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[David Shaw]

On 22/08/12 16:04, Eric Shulman wrote:
>
> http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#GridPlugin
>
> can generate tables from individual tiddlers, containing named slices,
> sections, and/or custom fields.

Why did I ever doubt? Once again, many, many thanks, Eric.

David Shaw

[David Shaw]

On 22/08/12 16:04, Eric Shulman wrote:
>

> http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#GridPlugin
>
> can generate tables from individual tiddlers, containing named slices,
> sections, and/or custom fields.

I'm back, sorry, with a teensy problemette. GridPlugin works very
nicely as does TableSortingPlugin (many thanks to Saq for that) however...

The column headings are displayed white on white. Where do I change
this so that I can see them?

Many thanks,

David Shaw