Sorting a list of tiddlers by the output of a macro contained in a field

[David Allen]

...let me try to make sense of that.  I have some character tiddlers with a caption field. Said caption field contains a macro call that returns the characters name, albeit rearranged.  I'd like to sort a list of character tiddlers by the rearranged name, a.k.a. the caption field after the macro it contains is run.  Is there any way to do this?

[Tobias Beer]

Hi David,

 

...let me try to make sense of that.  I have some character tiddlers with a caption field. Said caption field contains a macro call that returns the characters name, albeit rearranged.  I'd like to sort a list of character tiddlers by the rearranged name, a.k.a. the caption field after the macro it contains is run.  Is there any way to do this?

I'd think not. What you can do is:

1. create a button that contains a list widget
2. iterates through all characters
3. storing a computed name in an actual field
• rather than using the macro as the field-value

Best wishes, Tobias. 

[David Allen]

Thanks for that.  Worked well once I figured out what you were saying

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[Tobias Beer]

Yeah, possibly failed to mention the appropriate action widgets to use within the lists. I'll make a post oM tb5 for it when I get to it.