Thank you everyone here for your help! Since I couldn't think of any reason these fields would have shown up from something I had done, I decided to make a new file and systematically add plugins until the bad field showed up. I was able to see all of the fields by using a tiddler with what Mat suggested. Thanks Mat! I also added a line for shadow tiddler fields: <$list filter="[all[tiddlers]fields[]]" />
<hr> <$list filter="[all[shadows]fields[]]" /> I was able to narrow down the problem to a specific plugin that I had installed which had many tiddlers which all came with these strange fields. The plugin is "D&D 5e SRD Monsters", in case anyone is wondering. Super useful tool if you are into Dungeons and Dragons! I will probably email the author and let them know of this issue once I can confirm that it was definitely something on their end. I used trial and error, but in case this comes up in the future, I used the suggestion that Mark S. put forward for locating tiddlers that have the bad fields. It worked perfectly once I extended the filter to include shadows as well. Thanks for that! Finally, Mohammed, thank you for introducing me to the extremely useful tool of TW-Commander. Unfortunately it did not work as the bad field names messed with the button that would have removed the field. Looking back on it, it is possible that it did work, but because it doesn't affect shadows, it only changed a select few non-shadow tiddlers that had these faulty fields. The thing that finally worked for me was a button of my own that I adapted from some code I found here: https://tiddlywiki.narkive.com/NmNVbrY5/tw-tw5-can-i-bulk-delete-a-tag. This is the adapted code: <$set name="oldField" value={{!!fieldtoremove}}> <$button> <$list filter="[all[shadows+tiddlers]]"> <$fieldmangler> <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-remove-field" $param=<<oldField>>/> </$fieldmangler> </$list> Kill Bad Field </$button> </$set> All I had to do was create a field in that tiddler with fieldtoremove as the name and "" or ="" as the value and hit the button. As nerve wracking as it was, this seemed to do the trick! (Don't worry, i have plenty of backup versions just in case this did something bad.) Anyway, hopefully this thread can help other people! Thanks again for all the advice! On Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 11:13:28 AM UTC-4, Jalen MichalsLevy wrote: > > Hi there, > > Apparently somewhere in learning TiddlyWiki, I seem to have created two > user fields, one named "" and the other named ="". Now, I am aware that > these characters are not allowed in the field name, so I am unsure how they > got there in the first place. It has not been a problem until now, when I > tried to add Tobias Beer's Search In Field functionality, which can be > found here: > http://tobibeer.github.io/tb5/#Searching%20In%20Tiddler%20Fields. The > search works well, except that it also provides a syntax error which I am > pretty sure is due to these fields. In the following example, I am > searching for the term 'book' in all fields. This seems to work properly at > the bottom, listing the 'caption' field for the tiddler "Wisanthrope > Spells", which has the term 'book' in it. Clearly, however, at the top, it > reveals erroneous list widget syntax. I think the system is having trouble > reading a field named ="" or "" right after the regexp operator. I cannot > for the life of me find any tiddlers which have these fields nor can I > figure out how I made them, since when I try to use them now, it tells me > that these characters are not allowed in the field name. Is there any way > to just delete them outright? If not, how would you identify which tiddlers > have these fields active? Thanks in advance! > > <$list filter="[!is[shadow]!is[system]regexp:=""[book(?i)]limit[1]]"> > > ="" > > </$list> <$list filter="[!is[shadow]!is[system]regexp:=""[book(?i)]]"> > > $:/AdvancedSearch > <#ce45747e-8bb3-4150-ade8-d188a40e6805@googlegroups.com_%24%3A%2FAdvancedSearch> > > </$list> > > <$list filter="[!is[shadow]!is[system]regexp:""[book(?i)]limit[1]]"> > > "" > > </$list> <$list filter="[!is[shadow]!is[system]regexp:""[book(?i)]]"> > > $:/AdvancedSearch > <#ce45747e-8bb3-4150-ade8-d188a40e6805@googlegroups.com_%24%3A%2FAdvancedSearch> > > </$list> > > caption > > Wisanthrope Spells > <#ce45747e-8bb3-4150-ade8-d188a40e6805@googlegroups.com_Wisanthrope%20Spells> > > -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/9ab0f415-fbdb-4e6e-aa4f-5d7890e8df26%40googlegroups.com.
