On Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 9:42:42 AM UTC-8, myfta wrote: > > OK, I'm new here. >
Welcome! > I have a group of tiddlers with the same tag. > I want to be able to list these in a "dashboard" tiddler so that I can > edit some of the fields within the individual tiddlers. > The $edit-text widget <https://tiddlywiki.com/#EditTextWidget>and the $list > widget <https://tiddlywiki.com/#ListWidget> seem to have the right > options, but no examples of how to use them (for a newbie). Ideally, I want > to nest $edit-text inside $list so give me a table of fields from a set of > tiddlers that can be edited. Or is there a better way? > The $list widget uses the "filter" syntax to specify a set of tiddlers to operate on. You can think of the list widget as a "loop" control. For each tiddler that matches the filter, the <<currentTiddler>> variable is set for use inside the <$list>...</$list>. For your purposes, let's assume you are working with tiddlers tagged with "sometag". Thus, you would write: <$list filter="[tag[sometag]]"> <<currentTiddler>><br> ... more stuff goes here ... </$list> In the above example, the $list widget loops through all tiddlers that match the specified tag, and displays the title of each matching tiddler, one per line. The $edit-text widget creates a text input control that allows you to display and modify the value in a specified field. Entering/changing the text in an input control immediately changes the text value stored in the corresponding field, without needing any "ok/cancel" button. For your purposes, let's assume you want to change three fields named "foo", "bar", and "baz". To do this, you would write: enter foo: <$edit-text field="foo" /><br> enter bar: <$edit-text field="bar" /><br> enter baz: <$edit-text field="baz" /><br> Notes: * By default, if no "tiddler" parameter is specified, the <<currentTiddler>> is implied. * Each widget ends with "/>" rather than the usual ">". This is an abbreviated form of <$edit-text ...>...</$edit-text>. We can use this syntax because the $edit-text widget does not need any content *within* the widget. * The "enter xxx:" text that appears before the $edit-text widget is just normal content that will be displayed as a "prompt" in front of each input field * The <br> following each $edit-text widget ensures that each input control appears on a line by itself. * There are other $edit-text parameters that can be helpful here, such as "size" and "default". I leave this to you to experiment and discover. Combining the $list and $edit-text from above, and adding a little bit of extra "formatting", we can get something like this: <$list filter="[tag[sometag]]"> <<currentTiddler>>:<br> <blockquote> enter foo: <$edit-text field="foo" /><br> enter bar: <$edit-text field="bar" /><br> enter baz: <$edit-text field="baz" /><br> </blockquote> </$list> Note that <blockquote>...</blockquote> is a normal HTML syntax rather than a TiddlyWiki widget (there's no leading $). This shows that you can freely mix HTML and TiddlyWiki syntax together to achieve the desired display of output. Of course, you might want a different appearance of the output, but again, I leave that to you to experiment and discover. Hopefully, this is enough to get you started in the right direction. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask. enjoy, -e Eric Shulman TiddlyTools.com: "Small Tools for Big Ideas!" (tm) InsideTiddlyWiki - http://www.TiddlyTools.com/InsideTW -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/cf34a738-eef0-4718-84a2-8550982bdaea%40googlegroups.com.
