Yes, I think for this case, I like the inline filter option. And it worked
perfectly!
Thanks!
On Friday, April 24, 2020 at 1:49:04 PM UTC-4, Eric Shulman wrote:
>
> On Friday, April 24, 2020 at 9:53:26 AM UTC-7, David wrote:
>>
>> This variable worked fine when the listWidget loop was looping over a
>> text string of gathered contexts. But the filter has been changed to loop
>> over tags now. Apparently that macro style syntax (i.e. <<thisContext>> )
>> doesn't quite work the same way now that the iterator is a tag. Notice
>> also that the variable works in the Button Display Text area, so we knot
>> the variable is representing the right thing and is present at that point
>> in the code.
>> <$button>
>> <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler"
>> title="Task"
>> tags="Task <<thisContext>>"
>> priority="3"
>> />
>> New Task for <<thisContext>>
>> </$button>
>>
>>
> You can't combine literal text and a variable reference *inside* of a
> quoted widget parameter. Instead, you should define a macro to combine the
> values, and then refer to that macro as the parameter value, like this:
>
> \define newTags() Task $(thisContext)$
> <$button>
> <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler"
> title="Task"
> tags=<<newTags>>
> priority="3"
> />
> New Task for <<thisContext>>
> </$button>
>
> Alternatively, you can use an "inline filter" to construct the tags
> parameter value, like this:
>
> <$button>
> <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler"
> title="Task"
> tags={{{ [[Task ]] +[addsuffix<thisContext>] }}}
> priority="3"
> />
> New Task for <<thisContext>>
> </$button>
>
> This avoids the need to define a separate macro to construct the string.
> Note that the "[[Task ]]" syntax has a trailing space inside the brackets.
> This is important since the value is supposed to be a *space-separated*
> list of tags.
>
> Let me know how it goes...
>
> enjoy,
> -e
>
>
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