Hi Tony,

This is very neat.  That list widget doesn't seem to work for me though, I 
don't ever see the edit button if I put it inside that widget.

On Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 7:12:46 PM UTC-4, TonyM wrote:
>
> Ed,
>
> If you are going to Role your own, this simple tip may help.
>
> View Template buttons are designed to operate on the current tiddler. So 
> if you transclude them allowing it to operate on the current tiddler they 
> work.
>
> {{||$:/core/ui/Buttons/edit}}
>
> So if you generate a list and include this you will gain a little edit 
> button that will open the current tiddler (in the list) if clicked
>
> With transcluded content if you transclude as follows
> {{External content}}
>
> the transcluded tiddler is the current tiddler inside the transclusion.
> So inside [[External content]] `{{||$:/core/ui/Buttons/edit}}` will make 
> a button, if clicked, will edit "External Content" tiddler.
>
> So if you make a global macro as follows
> \define optional-edit()
> <$list filter="[{$:/config/edit-mode}match[yes]]" variable=nul>
>    {{||$:/core/ui/Buttons/edit}}
> </$list>
> \end
> and place <<optional-edit>>
> at the bottom of your external content tiddlers, those transcluded in the 
> original tiddler, the edit button will appear only if
> {$:/config/edit-mode}match[yes]
>
> I know this would be better with out the need to place something in the 
> excised tiddlers, and I have a mechanism I discovered but needs more work. 
> Its based on Parsing the output of 
> https://tiddlywiki.com/#transclusion%20Variable
>
> Regards
> Tony
>

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