While this is all complicated and helpful, I can see it's possible my intent was missed. I have 5 Tiddlers called Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday Their contents are essentially a list of activities, with procedures/ times/etc for each of those days. Clearly I could use Outlook or something, but the need for more contextual information for each procedure, each step, is a need Tiddlywiki meets nicely.
I'd like to have the DefaultTiddlers contain a code of some kind that will open the tiddler for the day of the week. If it is Tuesday, I would like the Tuesday tiddler to be one of the ones that opens. (I have other static tiddlers specified as well.) Hope this helps figure out a simple and direct/single solution for me. On Sep 24, 6:03 pm, Eric Shulman <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm trying to make a link out of the day. I have certain daily > > functions I perform, and their procedures are listed under a wiki of > > the day [[Monday]] etc. Well I recently learned about macros <<today > > DDD>> does pull up the name of the day, but I cant seem to make it > > into a link in any conventional way. Anyone? > > Unfortunately, because of the way macros work in TW, it's not possible > to combine the "output from a macro" with some surrounding syntax and > then have that combination parsed as if it had been entered as text. > > For example, using a macro inside the PrettyLink syntax, like this: > [[text to show|<<today>>]] > is *not* valid TW syntax. > > The reason is that when a macro is invoked by the TW core's "wikify()" > engine, it doesn't generate *text* that is inserted into the source > and then parsed to produce the final rendered result. Rather, each > macro is responsible for rendering it's own output (if any) by > directly generating browser DOM elements into a containing 'place' > that is passed to the macro by the core engine. > > Fortunately, there *are* several ways to create dynamically-assembled > output, depending upon your specific needs. One method uses only TW- > native syntax by combining 'hidden sections' and 'transclusion with > evaluated parameters'. For example, you can put the following in a > tiddler named [[LinkToToday]]: > /% > !show > [[$1]] > !end > %/<<tiddler LinkToToday##show > with: {{new Date().formatString('DDD');}}>> > you can then embed this output into another tiddler's content, like > this: > <<tiddler LinkToToday>> > > Alternatively, you can use this plugin: > http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#WikifyPlugin > to do something very similar, with a more compact syntax: > <<wikify "[[%0]]" {{new Date().formatString('DDD');}}>> > > You could also use this plugin: > http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#DatePlugin > which provides a variety of enhanced date display, link and advanced > popup features, allowing you to write: > <<date link today DDD>> > to create the desired link. > > ...and, if that's not sufficient, with this plugin: > http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#InlineJavascriptPlugin > you can use almost any javascript-programmed logic you want to > generate dynamic output, like this: > <script> > var day=new Date().formatString('DDD'); > if (['Saturday','Sunday'].contains(day)) > return "It's the weekend... go out and play!"; > else > return "[["+day+"]]"; > </script> > > However... based on this further bit of info from you: > "To add today's Tiddler to the DefaultTiddler" > it would seem that none of the above is quite the right fit, because > what you want to do is alter the content of [[DefaultTiddlers]] so > that it affects *startup processing*. > > Unfortunately, the previously described techniques are all used to > generate linked date output *within a rendered tiddler*, which occurs > long after startup processing has been completed. > > Fortunately, there is still a relatively easy way to do what you > want... > > 1) Start by creating a tiddler (give it a name like > [[SetDefaultTiddlersPlugin]]) > 2) Enter the following javascript code: > > //{{{ > var now="[["+new Date().formatString('DDD')+"]]"; > config.shadowTiddlers['DefaultTiddlers']=now; > //}}} > > 3) Add the 'systemConfig' tag (to indicate that this is a plugin) > 4) Press 'done' > 5) Delete (or rename) any existing [[DefaultTiddlers]] (so that the > shadow tiddler will be applied the next time the document is opened) > > When the document is saved-and-reloaded, the tiny plugin you just > created will be invoked during startup, and the DefaultTiddlers shadow > content will be updated with a link to the current day name. Then, > when the DefaultTiddlers definition is *applied* (near the end of the > startup process), the desired day-named tiddler (e.g., "[[Monday]]", > "[[Tuesday]]", etc) will be automatically opened, based on the content > your plugin has written into the shadow tiddler. > > QED. > > enjoy, > -e > Eric Shulman > TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
