Multi-Column Layout / Storyview

[BurningTreeC]

Hello @Sparrow

When installing the codemirror plugin be careful what additional codemirror subplugins you install
There are some subplugins that need other subplugins installed. In the description of those subplugins you should see which ones

[BurningTreeC]

If the codemirror 6 plugin would be out of alpha, I would recommend that one as the preferred editor

[BurningTreeC]

Hi @Sii

I have your desired functionality working. Later today I’ll update the plugin page with the new plugin version

[arunnbabu81]

@arunnbabu81

Can there be an keyboard shortcut for undo closing a tiddler - sometimes we may accidentally close a tiddler from the story river using Alt+C shortcut. Is it possible to revert this action - ie, reopen the last closed tiddler in the storyriver using Alt+R keyboard shortcut

@arunnbabu81

After checking out the new column header feature, I thought of an idea. If we can add tiddlers to a particular column of an ensemble by just providing a filter as the fieldvalue for the field corresponding to each column in the ensemble tiddler.
For example, all tiddlers with ToDo tags will populate under the column 1 (with the header say ToDo) if the story-1 field of the ensemble has fieldvalue [tag[ToDo]]

@arunnbabu81

• Give each column a color theme - for the column header, borders and the tiddler borders
• Hide the unwanted UI elements of a tiddler for kanban ensemble (by adding a stylesheet in ensemble’s stylesheet field) and provide tiddler controls like in muuri kanban which are visible only on hover.

@arunnbabu81

1. Double click a tiddler to make it into full-screen mode and next double click will bring the tiddler back to normal mode (something similar to what you have done with muuri kanban)
2. Any way to set the number of tiddlers allowed to open in a column (Dedicated field to set the number of tiddlers for an ensemble)
3. Ability to pin columns in an ensemble (to either right or left side)

@arunnbabu81

Currently if there are two columns, column-1 has tiddler-1 and tiddler-2, column-2 has tiddler-3 and tiddler-4.
If I use keyboardshortcut to remove the second column, column-2 will disappear. Now if I want to see the see the tiddlers in column-2 again, what should I do ? If I create a new column using keyboardshortcut, the newly formed column will be empty. Is there any way to retain the tiddler in the column-2 and similarly for other columns. Can a configurable option be added to retain tiddler history of each column or something similar ?

@BurningTreeC These are some of my previous suggestions. Now that you are back working on MCL, do you think any of these are implementable ?

[BurningTreeC]

@arunnbabu81

Can there be an keyboard shortcut for undo closing a tiddler - sometimes we may accidentally close a tiddler from the story river using Alt+C shortcut. Is it possible to revert this action - ie, reopen the last closed tiddler in the storyriver using Alt+R keyboard shortcut

I would need to keep track of the last closed tiddler. At the moment this doesn’t seem actionable to me

@arunnbabu81

After checking out the new column header feature, I thought of an idea. If we can add tiddlers to a particular column of an ensemble by just providing a filter as the fieldvalue for the field corresponding to each column in the ensemble tiddler.
For example, all tiddlers with ToDo tags will populate under the column 1 (with the header say ToDo) if the story-1 field of the ensemble has fieldvalue [tag[ToDo]]

This proposal totally clashes with the way MCL works and is not actionable

@arunnbabu81

• Give each column a color theme - for the column header, borders and the tiddler borders
• Hide the unwanted UI elements of a tiddler for kanban ensemble (by adding a stylesheet in ensemble’s stylesheet field) and provide tiddler controls like in muuri kanban which are visible only on hover.

you can already do that, each column can be addressed by CSS.
tc-river-1 for the CSS class of the first column and so on.
I strongly recommend inspect MCL with the browser’s built-in inspector to see the classes

@arunnbabu81

Double click a tiddler to make it into full-screen mode and next double click will bring the tiddler back to normal mode (something similar to what you have done with muuri kanban)

I want to be able to select text by double clicking, so I will not implement this, sorry. There’s a button for that and it’s one click away, not two

@arunnbabu81

Any way to set the number of tiddlers allowed to open in a column (Dedicated field to set the number of tiddlers for an ensemble)

What do you mean by that?

@arunnbabu81

Ability to pin columns in an ensemble (to either right or left side)

No, that’s against the way columns are layed out in MCL. Pinning isn’t possible

@arunnbabu81

If I use keyboardshortcut to remove the second column, column-2 will disappear. Now if I want to see the see the tiddlers in column-2 again, what should I do ? If I create a new column using keyboardshortcut, the newly formed column will be empty. Is there any way to retain the tiddler in the column-2 and similarly for other columns. Can a configurable option be added to retain tiddler history of each column or something similar ?

Yes, I wasn’t quite sure about this when I implemented it. I’ll see if I can make it configurable

Best wishes,
Simon

[BurningTreeC]

Hi all,

version 0.84.57 is online

• there’s a configuration option in the Control Panel to close columns when the last tiddler is closed
• another configuration option to preserve the content of closed columns

That’s all
Simon

[arunnbabu81]

@BurningTreeC
If all the tiddlers in a column are closed using the close viewtoolbar button, the column gets removed automatically.
But if I use the keyboard shortcut to move tiddlers from one column to another and if in doing so if a column becomes empty, that column is not getting automatically removed. Can this be fixed ?

[BurningTreeC]

Hi @arunnbabu81

That should now be fixed

[Scott_Sauyet]

Although I like what I see of this layout, I haven’t had any call to use it, so I haven’t followed the conversation closely. But I am wondering if instead of columns closing, they collapsed into a vertical row just wide enough for some sideways text describing the column. There are many examples of this online, including in some Kanban systems, but the first one that I can think of is Codepen. You can drag the column dividers to change widths, and when you get small enough it’s just a sideways title bar. (There’s also a cute animation for the final switch, but that’s not at all crucial.)

Would this be a useful model? And if so, does anyone know just how easy or difficult it might be to achieve?

[arunnbabu81]

@BurningTreeC Why configuration options are incomplete in my wiki

[TW_Tones]

@BurningTreeC

@arunnbabu81

Can there be an keyboard shortcut for undo closing a tiddler - sometimes we may accidentally close a tiddler from the story river using Alt+C shortcut. Is it possible to revert this action - ie, reopen the last closed tiddler in the storyriver using Alt+R keyboard shortcut

I would need to keep track of the last closed tiddler. At the moment this doesn’t seem actionable to me

I think this would be a good idea for tiddlywiki in general and need not be part of MCL.

I believe I may know how to do this and once we have it we can look at its operation within MCL.

Let us start a new topic. Undo close tiddler shortcut?

[BurningTreeC]

Hi @Scott_Sauyet

This would indeed be a useful model
I don’t know if the combination of flexbox CSS and the way how this Layout creates the columns makes it possible to achieve such a layout that you describe
I’ll think about it and let you know!

Best wishes,
Simon

[BurningTreeC]

Hi @arunnbabu81

In the process of creating MCL I didn’t pay attention to the naming of the configuration tiddlers.
That’s because in the configuration panel they are filtered by tag $:/tags/MultiColumn/Config and that tag is new since version 0.85.0
That means that all modified configuration tiddlers from before that version don’t have that tag

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To resolve that issue, delete them. Then they will appear as configuration options in the control panel.
Their names start with $:/config/story-river/ or $:/config/panel/

[Sparrow]

May I suggest some kind of a navigation bar for each column as illustrated below? It doesn’t have to be necessary, maybe users can opt to use it or not.

[BurningTreeC]

Hi @Sparrow

I think this would become cluttered if there are many tiddlers open in a single story river
Maybe a dropdown?

[Sparrow]

That’s an even better idea.

[Sparrow]

@BurningTreeC

A graphical ‘glitch’ happens, i.e. the excise prompt gets '“cut”, when I try to excise contents of a tiddler. This happens when there are two columns. See picture below

Also, one workaround the problem is to expand the width of the column containing the tiddler one wants to excise the contents of:

[Sparrow]

Can you also possibly look into adding the save/file changes indicator as seen from the picture below? The reason I’m asking is that I sometimes forget to save my tiddlywiki file when I use the plugin. Also, it is cumbersome to expand the sidebar just to see if there is/are new tiddler modification(s)/addition(s).

[BurningTreeC]

Hello @Sparrow

Columns don’t overflow in x direction and that’s the problem here

I’ll see if I can fix that by making them overflow auto

[BurningTreeC]

Yes, good idea @Sparrow

I’ll add that