Background of my question: For a colleague who often needs to write
standard mails I've created a TiddlyWiki where one can create 2 tiddlers.
One with the standard mailtext using place holders. The placeholders are
also defined in the template. Example below. The other tiddler is simply
one piping the mailtemplate-tiddler through a tiddler which will generate
the form to fill in the placeholders.
Example for the mailtemplate:
[[subject:Request for offer {{!!company}}]]
[[recipients:[email protected]]]
[[company:Company Name]]
[[due_date:Due date]]
[[revenue:Annual revenue]]
[[known_cb,not,already:Company known]]
Dear Mr. Offerman
The company {{!!company}} asked for an offer.
Their annual revenue is {{!!revenue}}.
The due date is {{!!due_date]].
{{!!company}} is {{known_cb}} known to us.
Best regards…
The tiddler showing the form is then just something like this:
{{
Mailtemplate:Request for offer -- Generate Mail
||
Create Mail
}}
and the resulting form will look something like this:
+----------------+---------------------------------+
| Recipients | [email protected] |
+----------------+---------------------------------+
| Subject | Request for offer {{!!company}} |
+----------------+---------------------------------+
| Company | [_____________] |
+----------------+---------------------------------+
| Due date | [_____________] [cal] |
+----------------+---------------------------------+
| Annual revenue | [_____________] |
+----------------+---------------------------------+
|Company known | [_] already |
+----------------+---------------------------------+
This already works quite well, but I do not really like the notation of the
placeholders {{!!placeholder}}. This is due to the fact that the generated
form simply stores the values in fields in the mailtemplate.
Since I had difficulties with the recipients and the subject, they are not
editable and are not in fields. I first wanted to make them editable but
this did not work as the defaults won't appear unless the tiddler, where
the fields are located, does not exist. Moreover the defaults are not
stored unless you explicitly go into the fields. As a result these 2 values
are stored in variables.
So my next idea was: Wouldn't it be nice, placeholders could be written in
the form <<placeholder>>?
Unfortunately I am not able to generate a set of variables dynamically. You
see: I do not know beforehand which placeholders will be used in a
mailtemplate. So I go through the mailtemplate with the ListWidget, finding
the placeholders from the top part, generating the input elements. Creating
variables by this is of course not possible.
But maybe someone here has an idea how to do this?
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