Tinderbox Video - Working with Lookups, Link Actions, and Automated Links
| Level | |
| Published Date | 4/17/21 |
| Tags | .Lookup, 4CKMEl, 4Cs of Knowledge Management and Exchange, Action Code, Edict, Link Actions, Rule, Scriptwriting, Stamps, Tinderbox, aTbRef, linkTo, unlinkFrom |
| Video Length | 14:10 |
| Video URL | Tinderbox Video - Working with Lookups, Link Actions, and Automated Links - YouTube |
| Example File | TBX L - Working with Term Lookups, Link Actions, and Automated Link Updates.tbx (424.7 KB) |
| Revision | 1 |
| TBX Version | 8.9 |
| Instructor | Michael Becker |
| Acknowledgements | Gernot Weise @Gernot |
In this lesson, I explain how to build lookup lists from notes and their children, specifically a list of terms’ synonyms and people’s names (e.g. characters). I also show how to, with action code, automatically update a notes links (add a link and remove a link) based on the values specified in a note’s attributes. I show the action code for each of the operations needed to make all this happened. Furthermore, I show how I incrementally build a rule by creating individual operations with stamps, and when everything is working, how I create a a rule by copying all the stamps into a single rule.
Code for the automatic linking and unlinking of terms and characters
$Character.each(x){linkFromOriginal(x,"Character");};
$Gist=$LUSynonyms("TBXConfigNote").lookup($Term).replace(",",";");
$CharLinked=links.inbound."Character".$Name;
$CharUnlink=$CharLinked-$Character;
$CharUnlink.each(x){unlinkFrom($CharUnlink,"Character");};
$CharLinked=;
$CharUnlink=;
$Term.each(x){linkFromOriginal(x,"Term");};
$TermLinked=links.inbound."Term".$Name;
$TermUnlink=$TermLinked-$Term;
$TermUnlink.each(x){unlinkFrom($TermUnlink,"Term");};
$TermLinked=;
$TermUnlink=;