XFieldsPlugin notes & ideas

[tobibeer]

Important

So far, xfields is nothing but a concept...

Discussion

• https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/Ul0eC6lD3oo/HzJWnU9uk0IJ

Spaces

• http://xfields.tiddlyspace.com
• http://xfieldsdev.tiddlyspace.com

Templating

http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_frm/thread/c76a948aaaeb5b87#

For the future I would suggest you use fields for any property>value pairs and some concept which conditionally displays fields ...depending on a tiddlers tags. I would think it were great to have something like some CustomFields tiddler which contained sections of definitions like this:

!Tags
tagA: fieldA fieldB fieldC
tagB: fieldA fieldD
tagC: fieldC
!Fields
fieldA: text|label for field A
fieldB: memo|label for field B
fieldC: text|label for field C
fieldD: date|label for field D

...and then whenever a tiddler of any of the tags is being displayed, there would be a corresponding ViewTemplate Element for rendering the data as well as the appropriate input element(s) for entering any new or changed data. If a tiddler had more than one of these tags, of course, the collection of all applicable fields would be displayed. I think something like that would utterly boost TiddlyWiki's usability for data management.

Accessing xFields

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/Ul0eC6lD3oo/Q6EEAzJSlIsJ
Other than suggested above, it probably is a good idea to write xfields as JSON format an provide unified read / write methods. A simple indicator of an xfield may be the x. namespace, e.g. x.my.x.field.