Thank you so much! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
On Thursday, June 17, 2021 at 3:38:32 AM UTC-4 Eric Shulman wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 11:56:53 PM UTC-7 iamdar...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>
>> My question is if there is a way to show a drop down field, with the
>> options prepopulated, and have it act like the edit-text fields above vs
>> overwriting the entire tiddler immediately with the selection?
>>
>
> When you define your $select widget, you need to *specify the tiddler=...
> and field=... parameters*, just as you do with the $edit-text widget.
> Otherwise, the $select widget defaults to changing the "text" field of the
> current tiddler.
>
> Thus:
> <$select tiddler=<<temp>> field="organization">{{OrgList}}</$select>
> Where the "OrgList" tiddler's text field has content like this:
> <option>Foo</option>
> <option>Bar</option>
> <option>Baz</option>
> <option>Mumble Frotz</option>
> <option>Gronk</option>
>
> Alternatively, you can simplify the OrgList tiddler's contents by using a
> $select widget containing a <$list> widget, like this:
> <$select tiddler=<<temp>> field="organization">
> <$list filter={{OrgList}}
> variable="org"><option><<org>></option></$list>
> </$select>
> Where OrgList contains just a white-space separated list of values, like
> this:
> Foo Bar Baz [[Mumble Frotz]] Gronk
> (note the use of doubled square brackets surrounding values that contain
> spaces)
>
> As a third alternative, you could store the "OrgList" in a field of the
> current tiddler. Thus:
> <$select tiddler=<<temp>> field="organization">
> <$list filter={{!!orglist}}
> variable="org"><option><<org>></option></$list>
> </$select>
> where the "orglist" field value contains a white-space separated,
> bracketed list as shown above.
>
> enjoy,
> -e
>
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