Greetings

I've been using linked WikiTags, and they're powerful. Instead of tagging an item {XYZ}, I tag it <a {XYZ}>XYZ</a>, which serves not only as an internal WikiTag but also an active link. Click it, and all your {XYZ} tagged items come up in the Scratch grid. This style of tag is also easy on the eyes and amenable to cutting, pasting and abbreviation.

So let's say I've found the item I wanted in Scratch. What's the best way of working with it, not in Scratch but in the grid I started from? And suppose the item is multi-parented, and I'd like to work with it in a particular context, with the parent and siblings connected to the present project? Any obvious way to get there?

There is always the Properties pane. It shows all the item's parents. Click on a Parent, and you've got the context, but you're still in the Scratch grid.

Properties also offers a field called "Shown in [n] grids." Those are live links, and should get us back to the grid we want, centered on the Item.

But that plan doesn't always work. If I'm seeing it correctly, the "Shown in [n] grids" will show the item in our desired grid only if it's presently expanded and displayed. What if it's available to the grid by source, but hidden five levels deep? That's the advantage of the WikiTag, isn't it...to break through hierarchies the better to find commonalities. With a WikiTag, I can group all of the {Stupid Things I've Done} together, irrespective of the contexts in which they are described.

Perhaps Properties could be improved to allow us to reach the item in the grid that generated the Scratch. A context menu on the Parents would do it. Or "Shown in [n] Grids" improved to show the home grid, even when the desired item is collapsed out of view.

Or is there a technique that others use to select an item in Scratch, then work with it in a preferred grid?

Thanks

Jerome

Update: The best way I've found thus far to do this is:

   1. Add the desired item to Tag List
   2. Change the Source of the grid you want to work in to: (All)
   3. Click on the Tagged item in Properties
   4. You've found an instance of the Item, maybe not the instance you want. Click on a Parent in Properties for desired context, and expand it to display your item.
   5. Change the Source of your grid back to its name. Item remains selected, and you're there.

JJS