Thanks for the followup Eric, that is all working as expected. A very
useful macro indeed!
bobj
On Sunday, 27 September 2020 at 08:28:01 UTC+10 Bob Jansen wrote:
> I apologise to the group because I emailed Eric directly instead of going
> via the group. I attach the details of the conversation below for anyone
> who is interested in using this very useful macro.
>
> *My initial query:*
>
> I am trying to use your edit-list macro. I can get the pop-up list to
> display but when I select an item, its value is not stored in the field
> I specified.
>
> <$macrocall $name="edit-list"
> field="exhibition_id"
> filter="[tag[Exhibitions]!tag[Index]]" />
>
> No matter what I do, the field, exhibition_id remains blank but the
> pop-up goes blank a well after making the selection. The field is
> defined on the tiddler showing the pop-up.
>
> Also, is there a way to display field data in the pop-up rather than
> just the title?
>
> *Eric's first reply:*
> Although the documentation says that the tiddler param will default to the
> currrent tiddler, this is not actually working at present.
> Until I can fix this, you can bypass the problem by explicitly including
> "tiddler=<<currentTiddler>>" as a param.
>
> Also, if you want to display AND return a field value instead of a title,
> then you can just add "get[fieldname]" to the filter param, where
> "fieldname" is the field you wish to display and return. Thus:
>
> <$macrocall $name="edit-list"
> tiddler=<<currentTiddler>> field="exhibition_id"
> filter="[tag[Exhibitions]!tag[Index]get[fieldname]]" />
>
> However, if you want to display field values instead of titles, BUT still
> return the corresponding title as the selected value, use the "listview"
> param, like this:
>
> <$macrocall $name="edit-list" tiddler=<<currentTiddler>>
> field="exhibition_id"
> listview="{{{ [<value>get[fieldname]] }}}"
> filter="[tag[Exhibitions]!tag[Index]]" />
>
> Note that the documentation for the edit-list macro currently not
> finished. I started to write it a while ago, but got sidetracked with
> other projects. Perhaps I can get around to completing it after I fix the
> problem with the default value for the tiddler param.
>
> *Eric's subsequent followup reply:*
> I've just uploaded a fix for the tiddler param default to
> <<currentTiddler>>. You can get a copy of the updated
> TiddlyTools/Macros/edit-list from
>
> http://tiddlytools.com/filtergenerators.html#TiddlyTools%2FMacros%2Fedit-list
>
> With this fix, you can now omit the "tiddler=<<currentTiddler>>" param and
> just write:
>
> <$macrocall $name="edit-list"
> field="exhibition_id"filter="[tag[Exhibitions]!tag[Index]]" />
>
> One important note: when the "target" tiddler for the input field is the
> <<currentTiddler>>, typing into the text input causes the input to lose
> focus as each character is typed.
>
> This is a known issue in the TWCore, and since my <<edit-list>> macro uses
> the TWCore <$edit-text> widget, it behaves the same way.
>
> This caused by the way that the TWCore's "refresh" handler works: whenever
> the value of a field in a tiddler is changed, the display of that tiddler
> is automatically refreshed to reflect the updated value. Thus, when the
> $edit-text widget (or the <<edit-list>> macro) is displayed in the same
> tiddler as the field that is being changed, it is also re-rendered, causing
> it to lose focus.
>
> There are some work-arounds that are discussed here:
> https://tiddlywiki.com/#EditTextWidget
>
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