[tw5] Re: Fields other than the default text field being able to be treated also as a textarea?

2020-12-02 Thread Cade Roux
Thanks, I will check that out once we get through this current release.

We started with TW just being a great way to output a single HTML file of 
data dictionary/build status/testing results to be shared and approved 
instead of Word/Excel document artifacts.  But we treated it as a target 
document output until we had enough time to play with it, see how 
stakeholders responded and learned how to use it.  We wanted to be able to 
pivot away from it if users weren't happy with it.

But now, Instead of treating it as a target where we generate all the lists 
and tiddlers fully formed the way we want them to be presented like you 
might generate multiple HTML pages on a site, we've moved to really using 
it more "natively" in the sense of only exporting very simple data-like 
tiddlers and using filters and macros within TW tiddlers to generate 
information from them.

Thanks,

Cade
On Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at 7:32:58 PM UTC-6 TW Tones wrote:

> Cade,
>
> I have a solution I am proud of that uses all the mechaisiums you are 
> asking for. It is attached. Let me know if you need more instructions.
>
> I am yet to polish it for publication but it is a tool to have local view 
> templates specific to a tiddler, it works by only allowing you to edit the 
> local-viewtemplate field in a multiline editor in edit mode. It gets hidden 
> from the field in edit mode otherwise the you loose the line breaks.
>
>
>- Drop the package local-viewtemplate on a wiki. It does nothing 
>without further action.
>- Edit a tiddler and add a field "local-viewtemplate" with or without 
>a value, click add
>- Now the multiline editor of the local-viewtemplate field appears in 
>edit mode.
>- In this case there is a local view template that will display the 
>fields contents in view mode.
>
> Not only does it demonstrate multiline fields it provides a quick and easy 
> test bed for writing view Template tests that will not appear everywhere.
>
> There is a possibility tiddler may not be saved correctly on node 
> implementations. But I checked right now on Bobexe and it survived a save 
> and reload.
>
> Regards
> Tones
>
>
> On Thursday, 3 December 2020 at 04:19:10 UTC+11 Cade Roux wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if anyone has done anything like this where a tiddler has 
>> another field "promoted" to a "textarea"-type of field like the main text 
>> field so that a tiddler has two text areas when it's in edit mode, where 
>> one is the text of the tiddler and one is the field denoted to be edited in 
>> a textarea instead of a textbox with all the other (shorter) fields.
>>
>> In my particular use case, the second field is directly related to the 
>> first, but an alternate rendering or similar.  In my case, one is HTML and 
>> the other is raw XML or some other related data but they differ such that 
>> they aren't realistically directly transformable from one to the other 
>> within the browser.
>>
>> In the past I have put that text in a separate tiddler that is directly 
>> linked to the first, but I have found over time, that that technique has 
>> grown unwieldy and I have moved many things back into fields in the main 
>> tiddler (including these large bits of text/data - which are just very 
>> difficult to read in edit mode in their fields - they are obviously fine 
>> when transcluded or otherwise used).
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Cade
>>
>

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[tw5] Re: Fields other than the default text field being able to be treated also as a textarea?

2020-12-02 Thread TW Tones
Cade,

I have a solution I am proud of that uses all the mechaisiums you are 
asking for. It is attached. Let me know if you need more instructions.

I am yet to polish it for publication but it is a tool to have local view 
templates specific to a tiddler, it works by only allowing you to edit the 
local-viewtemplate field in a multiline editor in edit mode. It gets hidden 
from the field in edit mode otherwise the you loose the line breaks.


   - Drop the package local-viewtemplate on a wiki. It does nothing without 
   further action.
   - Edit a tiddler and add a field "local-viewtemplate" with or without a 
   value, click add
   - Now the multiline editor of the local-viewtemplate field appears in 
   edit mode.
   - In this case there is a local view template that will display the 
   fields contents in view mode.

Not only does it demonstrate multiline fields it provides a quick and easy 
test bed for writing view Template tests that will not appear everywhere.

There is a possibility tiddler may not be saved correctly on node 
implementations. But I checked right now on Bobexe and it survived a save 
and reload.

Regards
Tones


On Thursday, 3 December 2020 at 04:19:10 UTC+11 Cade Roux wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone has done anything like this where a tiddler has 
> another field "promoted" to a "textarea"-type of field like the main text 
> field so that a tiddler has two text areas when it's in edit mode, where 
> one is the text of the tiddler and one is the field denoted to be edited in 
> a textarea instead of a textbox with all the other (shorter) fields.
>
> In my particular use case, the second field is directly related to the 
> first, but an alternate rendering or similar.  In my case, one is HTML and 
> the other is raw XML or some other related data but they differ such that 
> they aren't realistically directly transformable from one to the other 
> within the browser.
>
> In the past I have put that text in a separate tiddler that is directly 
> linked to the first, but I have found over time, that that technique has 
> grown unwieldy and I have moved many things back into fields in the main 
> tiddler (including these large bits of text/data - which are just very 
> difficult to read in edit mode in their fields - they are obviously fine 
> when transcluded or otherwise used).
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Cade
>

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[tw5] Re: Fields other than the default text field being able to be treated also as a textarea?

2020-12-02 Thread David Gifford
I can't speak to the issue of linking or the relationship between the 
fields, but if the issue is just the small side of the edit box, you could 
try the editwidget. I use the following in one tiddler to adjust the 
content of a custom field of a second tiddler.

<$edit tag="textarea" tiddler="yourtiddlernamehere" 
field="yourfieldnamehere" class="tc-edit-texteditor"/>

For your case scenario, it would be a matter of changing tiddler="" to a 
'currentTiddler' filter, adding it to a tiddler, and tagging the tiddler 
$:/tags/EditTemplate . Not sure what you would need to put. But that would 
give you a bigger area to work with for that field / those fields.

On Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at 11:19:10 AM UTC-6 Cade Roux wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone has done anything like this where a tiddler has 
> another field "promoted" to a "textarea"-type of field like the main text 
> field so that a tiddler has two text areas when it's in edit mode, where 
> one is the text of the tiddler and one is the field denoted to be edited in 
> a textarea instead of a textbox with all the other (shorter) fields.
>
> In my particular use case, the second field is directly related to the 
> first, but an alternate rendering or similar.  In my case, one is HTML and 
> the other is raw XML or some other related data but they differ such that 
> they aren't realistically directly transformable from one to the other 
> within the browser.
>
> In the past I have put that text in a separate tiddler that is directly 
> linked to the first, but I have found over time, that that technique has 
> grown unwieldy and I have moved many things back into fields in the main 
> tiddler (including these large bits of text/data - which are just very 
> difficult to read in edit mode in their fields - they are obviously fine 
> when transcluded or otherwise used).
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Cade
>

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