History buff, Consider using the clone button on a tiddler to start with a prefilled copy, then make changes.
Tones On Monday, 25 January 2021 at 15:18:27 UTC+11 History Buff wrote: > After a considerable amount of searching in the forum, I think I have > learned the answer to my question. In a previous thread ( > https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/VrFXprNCxVM/m/ZMw1zS8XCAAJ), I > saw that you could use the $action-setfield widget to modify/create/remove > the index and values in a dictionary tiddler. That is not intuitively > obvious, at least not to me. I believe I now have a path forward. > > On Sunday, January 24, 2021 at 1:14:46 PM UTC-7 History Buff wrote: > >> Here's the code I'm using to create the tiddler in the first place: >> >> \whitespace trim >> \define newDataHereActions() >> <$set name="tags" filter="[<currentTiddler>] >> [{$:/config/NewTiddler/Tags}]"> >> <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" tags=<<tags>> >> type="application/x-tiddler-dictionary" caption="" text="Line: >> Name: >> Birth: >> Born: >> From: >> To: >> Circumstance: >> Location: >> Parish: >> County: >> Date: "/> >> </$set> >> \end >> \define newDataHereButton() >> <$button actions=<<newDataHereActions>> >> tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/NewDataHere/Hint}} >> aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/NewDataHere/Caption}} >> class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>> >> <$list filter="[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>match[yes]]"> >> {{$:/images/fa5/solid/database}} >> </$list> >> <$list filter="[<tv-config-toolbar-text>match[yes]]"> >> <span class="tc-btn-text"> >> <$text text=$:/language/Buttons/NewDataHere/Hint/> >> </span> >> </$list> >> </$button> >> \end >> <<newDataHereButton>> >> On Sunday, January 24, 2021 at 1:12:42 PM UTC-7 History Buff wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I am using dictionary tiddlers to store each of the individual lines >>> from a genealogical record transcription (like a census, for instance). So >>> far, I have been manually creating each entry in the dictionary tiddlers >>> which is a rather tedious process. I then use a dynamic table to display >>> the transcription. >>> >>> There are some things that I can't avoid entering manually such as >>> individuals' names, ages, etc. However, there are some things that they all >>> share such as address and location. I have a button already created that >>> creates an individual dictionary tiddler that is tagged with the record >>> that is being transcribed and I would like to be able to prepopulate >>> certain indexes with fields from that record tiddler. So far, I have not >>> been able to get what I want other than using fields instead of a >>> dictionary tiddler which I could ultimately do. I just feel like I want to >>> solve this so that I have a better understanding of Tiddlywiki. >>> >>> Thanks a bunch. >>> >> -- 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/c29342a2-af90-4ed5-9f2d-3e689fd581fan%40googlegroups.com.
