Tony, I have a feeling your challenge may be related to my question about
finding a way for transclusions to "behave" as I would hope them to when
the tiddlers they're in get rendered as tabs, etc. Yes? I'll watch this
post... Cheers.
On Monday, December 23, 2019 at 7:01:11 PM UTC-5, TonyM wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> To cut a long story short I wanted to challenge the group to see if there
> is a way to extract a tiddler title from an intermediate transclude.
> attached and Illustrated below;
>
> *Why?*
> Because in a number of new methods I am developing this is a gap in what I
> can do to simplify the sophisticated (but simple) use of transclusions.
> Such a solution could make even smarter transclude methods available and
> reduce the code needed to achieve them, or the need for changes in the core
> to expand designer options when building wikis.
>
> Here are three tiddlers you can create on Tiddlywiki.com (use JSON file if
> you want)
>
> Display tiddler
> <h2>Display Tiddler</h2>
> Current Tiddler=<<currentTiddler>><br>
> Display Tiddler=<<storyTiddler>>
>
> ;Simple Transclude (1)
> {{||intermediate}}
>
> ;Transclude with tiddlername (2)
> {{tiddlername||intermediate}}
>
> intermediate tiddler
> \define intermediate() intermediate
> <h2>Intermediate Tiddler</h2>
> Intermediate Tiddler=<<intermediate>><br>
> Current Tiddler=<<currentTiddler>><br>
> Display Tiddler=<<storyTiddler>>
>
> {{||final}}
>
> final tiddler
> <h2>final tiddler</h2>
>
> <h3>How can I find the tiddler name of the intermediate tiddler here?</h3>
> Intermediate Tiddler=<<intermediate>><br>
> Current Tiddler=<<currentTiddler>><br>
> Display Tiddler=<<storyTiddler>>
>
> One solution is to edit the intermediate tiddler as in the example and
> define a variable based on a literal
> \define intermediate() intermediate
> as included in the above.
>
> *However*
>
> - I am looking for a way to avoid editing the intermediate tiddler to
> provide its name as a literal
> - I would accept a programmatic way to store the intermediate name
> in intermediate but ideally I would like to avoid editing
> "intermediate" at
> all
> - Is there a way to derive this intermediate tiddler title by other
> means in final?
> - What if there was a second intermediate tiddler?
>
> *Hacking*
>
> - Perhaps there is a way to get/set the last tiddler "doing the
> transclude" in "final" by altering the transclude mechanism?
> - What if we could somehow determine the full branch used to get to
> any level deep
> - eg (in final) display intermediate final
> or (in final) display $:/core/ui/Buttons/edit final
>
> Thanks in advance
> Regards
> Tony
>
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