Tags that represent statuses

[Emanuele]

I have tiddlers each associated to an article I'm writing.

They all have a tag 'ContentItem'.

They have a tag representing the status: 'PhaseSetup', 'PhaseFreeWriting', 'PhaseOutline', etc.

They start with 'PhaseSetup'. Then they move on to the other statuses.

If no article is in 'PhaseSetup' status — hopefully they all end up in 'PhasePublished' status — when I create a new article I have to recreate the tag 'PhaseSetup' again (and change its color).

How do I prevent tags from being deleted when there are no tiddlers left with that tag?

Do I have to create some hidden tiddler that has that tag? I don't want these hidden tiddlers to show up in lists.

[Mohammad]

Hi Emanuele,

Simply create tiddlers titled with PhaseSetup, PhasePublished, etc

Open them and add a color field with desired colors!

Now use these as tag whenever you like!

No worry they will remain unchanged until you DELETE them yourself.

--Mohammad

[Mat]

>Do I have to create some hidden tiddler that has that tag? 

As far as I know, yes. You can have one single tiddler tagged with all of your tags.

>I don't want these hidden tiddlers to show up in lists.

No problem. Just title the tiddler with an initial $:/ prefix, e.g "$:/StatusTags


<:-)

[Emanuele]

Thank you, very good solution!

[Emanuele]

Thank you, this solution is good as well!

[TonyM]

Also With system tiddlers that may appear in your lists you can always excluded them by starting your filter with

[!is[system]....

Regards

Tony

[PMario]

On Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at 9:04:05 PM UTC+2, Emanuele wrote:

Thank you, very good solution!

On Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at 6:50:50 PM UTC+2, Mohammad wrote:

Hi Emanuele,

Simply create tiddlers titled with PhaseSetup, PhasePublished, etc

Open them and add a color field with desired colors!

Now use these as tag whenever you like!

No worry they will remain unchanged until you DELETE them yourself.

That's the intended way to do it. ...

Especially since you can create simple overviews within those "tag-tiddlers" eg:

<<list-links filter:"[tag[PhaseSetup]]">>


see: https://tiddlywiki.com/#list-links%20Macro:%5B%5Blist-links%20Macro%5D%5D%20%5B%5Blist-links%20Macro%20(Examples)%5D%5D%20%5B%5Blist-links-draggable%20Macro%20(Examples)%5D%5D%20%5B%5Blist-links-draggable%20Macro%5D%5D

have fun!
mario

[Mohammad]

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