Tinderbox Meetup, Sun., Feb. 9, 2025 (Video): Editorial Workflow & Template and Library Management Strategies

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Tinderbox Meetup, Sun., Feb. 9, 2025 (Video): Editorial Workflow & Template and Library Management Strategies
Level Intermediate
Published Date 2/10/2025
Type Meetup
Tags Action Code Migration, Dynamic Attribute Generation, Editorial Workflow, Library Migration, Template Migration, 5CKM, 5Cs of Knowledge Management, Eastgate, Identiy Praxis, Inc., Mark Berstein, Michael Becker, Tinderbox
Video Length 01:36:21
Video URL https://youtu.be/3kt4lWPBWoc
Example File TBX L - Writing Workflow Status Management.tbx (348.2 KB), Target-document-1.tbx (280.8 KB), Source-document-1.tbx (240.3 KB)
Chat File TBX Meetup 09FEB25Chat.txt (6.2 KB)
TBX Version 10
Host Michael Becker

In this Tinderbox Meetup, we went over two concepts in detail:

  1. Editorial Workflow, i.e., we reviewed strategies to manage the various states (e.g…, draft, in-review, final) of the authoring process. We discussed different strategies, including,
  • manual workflow
  • use of checkboxes, flags, colors, and display expression to visually signal status
  • use of action code to automagically adjust visual signals
  • use of action code to create drafts of notes
  1. Template and Action Code Library Migration, Michael Becker (@satikusala), as part of the process of supporting the students in his 5Cs School, kicked off a series of discussions with @mwra on different approaches on how we can facilitate the copying and pasting of template and action code libraries across Tinderbox files and have the self-contained files trigger action code to generate the necessary attributes that the templates and libraries need to work. @mwra developed a dictionary strategy, and @satikusala demonstrated a self-contained functions library approach (inspired by his discussions with @mwra).

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