SID-00753: How to query a TWiki table

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I'm trying to make a TWiki page with a table with say 6 columns, and have some of the values in some columns pulled in from a table on a separate page e.g.

What I want to do is have an EditTable so that someone can edit the first row and select values for Name1, Name2, and Name3 from a list of pre-defined names (in the edit table definition).

Then, when saving the table, I want the Phone1 field to lookup the phone number of "Name1" from a table on a separate page. This separate table would look something like:

Sounds fairly simple, and I can get a simple 2 column table working with FormattedSearch, but this falls down when there are multiple columns (I might need to change my regex).

Is there a simple way to do this? Ideally I'd like to be able to query an existing table saying something like "select Phone from X where Name = %CALC{$T(R2:C1)}%". Is there a plugin for this?

OR even better - is there a way to tell the EditTable that when "Foo" is chosen in the Name1 (or Name2, Name3) field, the value in Phone1 should be "123"?

-- JoshBoston - 2010-02-12

Discussion and Answer

Rather than messing around with regular expressions I recommend you to look into TWikiForms based applications with QuerySearch and FormattedSearch. This allows you to easily run queries and build tables dynamically. This support application is a sample TWiki forms based application.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-02-12

Thanks Peter, I think I can achieve what I'm trying to do by having a TWiki form on each contacts page (foo, bar, etc) with a form field for their phone number and look it up from there.

-- JoshBoston - 2010-02-22

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