Create Dynamic Table with an Input-oriented Filter

[kookma]

Mohammad, a ViewTemplate add-in (with simple dynamic table for items tagged-here) would be awesome! Basically, I end up copy-pasting a basic dynamic table into virtually every tiddler whose only role is to serve as a parent/overview dashboard for its tagged underlings.

Another "stretch" task would stretch dynamic tables to work with an input-oriented filter: Say, there's an input box where if students enter their initials, all tiddlers where those initials are listed (in list field) would show up. (For me, this is better than creating a separate tiddler for each student for felt-privacy reasons (plus my own laziness with many students); it's better if they can "call up" their own data by entering initials in an input field, without having an easy way to feel like everyone's data is for easy viewing; I understand that if the data is "in there" a savvy student can find it.) I started tinkering with this task, and then realized it was not going to be quick.

In general, I'm struggling a bit with whether and how I can feed variables into a dynamic table macro; I can force a column header to display a string like "next_level" (using tobibeer's setvars, or even by inserting {{!!custom}} in the field list and setting that field up with next_level), BUT the column won't actually show the next_level field contents for the tiddler rows. Perhaps it's generally true of any <> that it's hard to get the guts of the macro to work with anything that requires calculation from outside the macro? Or else I'm just missing some insight about how to inject a desired variable into the dynamic tables' macro syntax.

Ref: Springer on GG