David,
You mention context. My New tiddler button looks something like this
<$button>
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler"
title="Task" tags="Task"
priority="3"
domain={{!!domain}}
project={{!!project}}
client={{!!client}}
/>
New Task
</$button>
So basically new tiddlers are created with the same context (in fields) as
the tiddler where I use the button. The view template displays the new
button.
Regards
Tony
On Saturday, April 25, 2020 at 5:52:37 AM UTC+10, David wrote:
>
> I'm glad both of you guys chimed in. I learned from both your
> perspectives.
>
> On Friday, April 24, 2020 at 1:54:37 PM UTC-4, Mark S. wrote:
>>
>> This is actually a version of a problem that comes up frequently -- how
>> to concatenate a variable or transclusion into a string.
>>
>> This:
>>
>> tags="Task <<thisContext>>"
>>
>> will not work. It won't create a string with "Task" and the value of
>> <<thisContext>> >
>>
>> This is called concatenation. If you look for "concatenation" on
>> TiddlyWiki.com there's at least one howto. Unfortunately, it's not the word
>> that automatically springs to people's heads.
>>
>> The two main ways around this problem is to use either {{{ }}} notation
>> with a addprefix/addsuffix filter operator, or to use a helper macro.
>> Macro's have substitution variables. A variable for a passed parameter
>> looks like $variable$ and a substitution variable for an environmental
>> variable looks like $(variable)$.
>>
>> So, at the top of your tiddler create a macro like this:
>>
>> \define thebutton()
>> <$button>
>> <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler"
>> title="Task"
>> tags="Task $(thisContext)$"
>> priority="3"
>> />
>> New Task for <<thisContext>>
>> </$button>
>> \end
>>
>> Then, down below replace the existing button code like this:
>>
>> <<theButton>>
>>
>> On Friday, April 24, 2020 at 9:53:26 AM UTC-7, David wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.freezingcode.com/twTemp/category_name_20200424.html
>>>
>>> The above tiddlyWiki file illustrates my question.
>>>
>>>
>>> The "New" button in the TODO tiddler (there is one "New" button per
>>> context section) is supposed to create a new tiddler with tags
>>> automatically added. One of the tags "Task" is hard coded, and should be.
>>> The other tag is dynamic, and represents the current section Context (e.g.
>>> "Context_Home" or "Context_Out", etc.) and is placed in that code,
>>> hopefully, via a variable.
>>>
>>> When you click on one of the "New.." buttons, you'll get a new tiddler
>>> draft, and notice that the current context is not one of the tags, but the
>>> variable declaration is: <<thisContext>>. That is what is not working.
>>>
>>> This variable worked fine when the listWidget loop was looping over a
>>> text string of gathered contexts. But the filter has been changed to loop
>>> over tags now. Apparently that macro style syntax (i.e. <<thisContext>> )
>>> doesn't quite work the same way now that the iterator is a tag.
>>>
>>> Notice also that the variable works in the Button Display Text area, so
>>> we knot the variable is representing the right thing and is present at that
>>> point in the code.
>>>
>>> Thanks for Looking!
>>>
>>> <$button>
>>> <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler"
>>> title="Task"
>>> tags="Task <<thisContext>>"
>>> priority="3"
>>> />
>>> New Task for <<thisContext>>
>>> </$button>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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