Hi pmario, Thank you for that it explains a lot, I'm a bit clearer now. suzy
On Jan 9, 3:31 pm, PMario <[email protected]> wrote: > hi suzy > > On Jan 8, 9:11 pm, suzy <[email protected]> wrote:> Hi, I'm a bit new to > TW, but have been cruising around picking up > > Welcome! > > === snip> I get "error in macro<<Idea>>. I get the same error if I try to > add a > > I think your "Idea" tiddler is the template which will be used by the > newTiddlerWithForm macro > > Rename/Copy your Idea to a tiddler IdeaTemplate. It is not really > needed but it will help avoid confusion to name a template > "SomeNameTemplate" > > Then try this in SideBarOptions: > <<newTiddlerWithForm IdeaTemplate "New Idea">> > > > system built in macro such as GettingStarted into the SideBarOptions, > > ie "error in macro <<Getting Started>> . Just for fun I tried putting > > "GettingStarted" is no macro it is a predefined tiddler. If a tiddler > is part of the core it is named "shadow tiddler". You may have read > this already somewhere. These tiddlers are always there. If you > generate a "new tiddler" titeled: GettingStarted, your tiddler will > overwrite the shadow tiddler. If you delete it, the shadow tiddler > will be regenerated. > > The <<...>> is the syntax to call a macro inside a tiddler. > eg: > <<newTiddlerWithForm IdeaTemplate "New Idea">> > ^^^macro name; ^templateName ^Title fo the new generated > tiddler > > If you use it with an invalid macro name there will be an error. > > > in an extra button called newTiddler, and there was no error with > > that. > > newTiddler is a macro > > Hope it helps > regards Mario
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