I'll give a longer reply tonight when I get home, but I think
FormTiddlersPlugin would be perfect for what you need. I'll give some
examples of what I'm using the forms for. It's pretty straight
forward once you see how they work. Again, I'm not sure, but I didn't
think the tiddlywiki knows how to parse standard HTML form syntax
without something like the FormTiddlerPlugin.
Are you using just a stock tiddlywiki?
Grant
On Feb 5, 3:20 pm, Jen <jenfi...@filerins.com> wrote:
> Chris, what you said does make sense and I have actually tried doing
> just that, but when I put what is in the <div> ... </div> into any
> tiddler besides the ViewTemplate, it doesn't end up looking like a
> custom form field... it just displays the text as if it doesn't know
> what to do with it.
>
> As for the FormTiddlersPlugin I don't know how it's used, I do not
> have it and I do not know if it would work with what I currently have
> as the website (can't remember what it was) I copied from says I have
> to have <div>Name: <span macro="view name"></span></div> in the
> ViewTemplate and <div>Name: <span macro="edit name"></span></div> in
> the EditTemplate for the form fields to work right. Doing it this way,
> it's obvious that I would have to set it to be used for only certain
> tiddlers or set it so certain tiddlers are excluded and that just may
> not be possible.
>
> I looked at the FormTiddlersPlugin, but I don't know how it works. I
> think I see that it has code for button, checkbox, text, textarea, and
> etc, but I don't know what I'm supposed to put down the the tiddler so
> that it comes out looking like a button, a checkbox, etc. Does anybody
> know the answer to that?
>
> jen
>
> On Feb 5, 3:17 pm, youngheart80 <younghear...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey Jen
>
> > Are you using the Abego plugin FormTiddlersPlugin (http://
> > tiddlywiki.abego-software.de/) to do your forms or standard HTML? I
> > would assume the plugin because I don't even know if it's possible to
> > do forms without.
>
> > If using the plugin, you'll have to make a template tiddler that
> > contains the form info you want, similar to what you've listed. Then,
> > you'll create a button or macro to that template tiddler to call it in
> > the situations you want. So for example, if you made a
> > JenFormTemplate tiddler with your form information, you could then
> > call that form using the macro
> > <<formTiddler [[JenFormTemplate]]>> in the body of the tiddler where
> > you want the form.
>
> > If you're going to make a button, you can do it with the macro <<new
> > Tiddler text:{{store.getTiddlerText('JenFormTemplate')}}>> The "text:
> > ((store.getTiddlerText...)" just grabs whatever text is in the target
> > tiddler (JenFormTemplate in this instance) and inserts it into the
> > body of the tiddler you are creating.
>
> > Hopefully, that all makes sense.
>
> > Cheers!
> > Grant
>
> > On Feb 5, 1:40 pm, Jen <jenfi...@filerins.com> wrote:
>
> > > To anyone that can help,
>
> > > I have a TiddlyWiki I'm trying to create and I would like to use
> > > fillable form fields. Currently I have this in ViewTemplate:
> > > <div>Name: <span macro="view name"></span></div>
> > > <div>Address: <span macro="view address"></span></div>
>
> > > and this in EditTemplate:
> > > <div>Name: <span macro="edit name"></span></div>
> > > <div>Address: <span macro="edit address"></span></div>
>
> > > BUT, doing so puts the custom form felds in EVERY tiddler but there
> > > other tiddlers that don't need it and it looks bad. Is there any way
> > > to control which tiddlers get the custom form fields? If not, is there
> > > an alternative? This tiddlywiki is for other people to use and the
> > > custom form fields are very easy for anyone to use. Anything more
> > > complicated than double clicking in the tiddler and filling in the
> > > fields would be too much as the intended users will not be tiddler
> > > literate.
>
> > > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
> > > jen- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
>
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