I need a simple table, editable inline, siloed

#1

I’ve just searched everywhere I can think of, and my table needs seem to exist in-between existing options.

I can manually type in a table, but editing and revising is a bit of a pain, especially when some columns may contain multiple words.

There are also plugins that parse multiple tiddlers and display their data in a table.

I need something in-between. A simple table where I can set up columns, rows and headers and then start manually entering things into the table cells, all in view mode. I’m beginning to think this does not exist … am I right?

#2

Shiraz 2.4.6 — create stylish contents in Tiddlywiki contains dynamic tables. That may be of interest

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#3

Shiraz’ Dynamic Tables are what I was referring to when I mentioned ‘parse multiple tiddlers’ - I’m not starting with multiple tiddlers, I just want to manually enter data into a table using a GUI interface, similar to the way I would enter things into a spreadsheet.

Having said that, I do see that once I have the initial data into a dynamic table, I can then edit it inside the table. Does that edit get pushed back to the field of the original source tiddler? If so, that’s workable.

I think I may have figured out a way to populate the source tiddlers. Lots of wikilinks and things. Can you do a drop-down option for tiddler fields? Guess I need to read up some more…

#4

I did create some table-like editors used for my Script Manager, which contains a table for ToDo’s.

The ToDo’s are managed as single tiddlers. So that’s probably not what you want.

Then there is a “link management” table, which stores that data in a JSON data-tiddler and uses CSS grids to build the table.

The whole thing is documented in detail at a google groups thread: https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/_VQw8yIKWn8/m/vxJU13slBQAJ

There are 17 videos, where I did record the whole programming process “line by line” + a lot of explanations. … It’s probably not a perfect match. But there may be areas that may help you, if you want to dig into it.

I’m using the script manager as my personal link management and as a recording tool for my ideas.

The overview video is this: Script / ToDo manager for TiddlyWiki 01

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#5

G’day,

Have you given this one a spin?

Editable Table

#6

that one looks very nice, thanks!

#7

Yeah, that was a really lucky search, and I wish I had known about it way earlier.

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#8

Mathcell may do the job as well?
http://mathcell.tiddlyspot.com/

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#9

Yes, Dynamic Tables are great for live editing of data from the various tiddlers shown. You can even clone (or delete) a row on the fly, by adding the appropriate column in the macro call.

What’s not editable from within the dynamic table interface is the title of tiddlers serving as your rows. (So, after cloning to add a row, you’d need to open the actual tiddler if you want to assign it a title more useful than ExistingRow 1.)

-Springer

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