I'm not sure what you mean by a stock tiddlywiki. I'll be interested
in seeing how it is one uses the FormTiddlersPlugin. I've come across
it before, but I usually can't tell from a plugin how to use it,
unless I'm told.
jen
On Feb 5, 4:35 pm, youngheart80 <younghear...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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