Recursive list of links

Exporting from Tinderbox
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I would like to produce a series of unordered lists representing the data from a container with agents.

Data looks like this:

Tags (container)
    tagA (agent)
        note 1
        note 2
    tagB (agent)
        note 1
        note 3
    tagC (agent)
        note 3

I have tried to amend @mwra 's useful code from the aTBref file for generating the sitemap. Here’s what I ended up with (this Template note is called “AllTagger” and it is calling itself):

<li>^linkTo(this)^
^if($ChildCount & $HTMLExportChildren)^<ul>^descendants("AllTagger")^</ul>^endIf^</li>

I had to remove the !IsAlias from the if condition to collect the notes from the agent. I also had to change children to descendants to pick up the notes collected by the agent.

So, the export is returning all of the notes that I want when the above template is applied to the Tags container note at the top of the tree.

However, it’s not returning them in a hierarchal form. The Tags container appears as an item at the top of the list, then indented one level come all the other notes:

* Tags
    * tagA
    * note1
    * note2
    * tagB
    * note1
    * note3
    * tagC
    * note3

How can I make the notes indent one level in the hierarchy with this recursive template?

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children would enumerate the immediate children, which is (I think) what you want.

If the “AllTagger” itself incorporates itself

^if($ChildCount(original) & $HTMLExportChildren(original)) ^<ul>^children("AllTagger")^</ul>^endIf^</li>

then you’ll export a new, nested unordered list for each generation.

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No, unfortunately that code gets me this:

Tags
    tagA
    tagB
    tagC

In other words, it doesn’t also go into the next level of hierarchy to grab the children of tagA, tagB, and tagC.

However, when I changed it to this, it did work as expected:

<li>^linkTo(this)^
^if($ChildCount(original))^<ul>^children("AllTagger")^</ul>^endIf^</li>

I guess I had set the agents to not export children to avoid double exporting notes. Or maybe this is an automatic setting for agents? Either way, thanks for the guidance here.

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