> > While it might seem to you to be the expected behavior, importing > tiddlers will NEVER add or alter any fields in the incoming tiddlers. This > is by design, since there may be unwanted side-effects of changing the > tiddler definitions, even if it is just to add a "created" or "modified" > date. >
Yeah, perhaps 'expected' behavior was the wrong choice of words. Thanks for the snippet, that seems like a good fallback solution. One other thought I had was to parse the $:/Import tiddler for a more targeted list of tiddlers to modify, but I can't think of a straight forward way of doing that. On Monday, July 20, 2020 at 12:07:18 PM UTC-5, Eric Shulman wrote: > > On Monday, July 20, 2020 at 9:39:00 AM UTC-7, Joshua Baller wrote: >> >> I have a wiki (5.1.22) that is partly updated through importing large >> sets (1000s) of tiddlers from a few JSON files on an approx. weekly basis >> (knowledge base, the information is being maintained and updated on a >> different system). I would like to know the last edit/update dates for a >> particular tiddler was imported in this way, however when imported the >> 'created' and 'modified' fields are left blank. >> >> My preference would be to simply have the field populated on import as >> this seemed like the expected behavior. Is there a setting I'm missing to >> get this to occur? Otherwise is there are way to target only the recently >> imported tiddlers to have their 'created' dates populated? >> > > While it might seem to you to be the expected behavior, importing tiddlers > will NEVER add or alter any fields in the incoming tiddlers. This is by > design, since there may be unwanted side-effects of changing the tiddler > definitions, even if it is just to add a "created" or "modified" date. > > However, you *can* perform a "fixup" process after importing, by using the > following button: > <$button> set missing created/modified fields > <$list filter="[all[tiddlers]!is[system]!has[created]]"> > <$action-setfield created=<<now "YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm0ss0XXX">> modified=< > <now "YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm0ss0XXX">> /> > </$list> > </$button> > > This button does a $list to find all tiddlers that do not have a "created" > field > (excluding system tiddlers... those starting with "$:/"). For each > tiddler it finds, > it sets the "created" AND "modified" fields of that tiddler to the current > datetime, > using the standard 17-digit TWCore date format for those fields. > > enjoy, > -e > > > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/ca2efad6-91f5-4092-913d-3285ec6d9f79o%40googlegroups.com.
