Soren Bjornstad’s reading list tutorial

[Rehali]

Before the question, first of all if you read this Soren then many thanks for your excellent tutorial on YouTube - it’s what got me started with tiddlywiki.

Now the question. If you’ve seen the tutorial, what I would like to do is to display a list of the books on the tiddly belonging to their author. The author field for each book is a link, as in [[Charles Dickens]]

I was hoping to use a filter on each Author tiddler like:

[tag[Source]field:author{!title}]

but I can’t get anything to work.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Soren Bjornstad]

Rehali,

I see two problems here:

1. You have a typo in your transclusion syntax – it should be {!!title}, not {!title}.

2. If the author field contains a link in [[double square brackets]] or is a list of several authors, like I did in the video, then you need to use contains:, not field: – field: does an exact match on the text contents of the field, and this won't be an exact match because the field contains extra square brackets. (Alternatively, if you only ever want to have one author, you could just remove the brackets and not treat it as a list.)

[Soren Bjornstad]

And you're very welcome for the tutorial!