[Bug] Right Sidebar - Recent tab - shows long lists of imported tiddlers created the same day

[pmario]

If a user creates a lot (1000+) of tiddlers, that are imported into TW, all of them will show up in the Recent tab.

The Recent tab uses the timeline-macro which has a limit parameter -- But

limit

The maximum number of tiddlers to include, defaulting to 100. But if any tiddlers are included for a particular day, all of the other tiddlers for that day will also be included – even if this exceeds the limit

So this can be a problem, if we have a lot of imported tiddlers for 1 day

We should investigate that problem and modify the timeline macro accordingly.

[pmario]

See Talk thread: https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/t/how-do-i-control-the-number-of-recent-lists/9480

[ericshulman]

One possible "fix" is to compute the list of tiddlers and apply the limit[...] filter before the $list widgets are processed (i.e., before the eachday[...] filter is applied), using something like this:

<$set name="tids"
   filter="[!is[system]$subfilter$has[$dateField$]!sort[$dateField$]limit[$limit$]]">

Then, in the $list filters, use enlist<tids>, like this:

<$list filter="[enlist<tids>eachday[$dateField$]]">

and

<$list filter="[enlist<tids>sameday:$dateField${!!$dateField$}]">

This ensures that the desired limit (default=100) is never exceeded, regardless of how many tiddlers share the same date.

[pmario]

I do get the idea, but with new code, we need to make sure, that we also use the new text substitution syntax. Especially the subfilter parameter is problematic here, if we want to be backwards compatible: https://tiddlywiki.com/#timeline%20Macro