Did you test it with 1 field first?
-m
On Friday, July 9, 2021 at 4:27:39 AM UTC+2 Ed Heil wrote:
> Thanks, Tones. I will be interested to hear it when you are ready to make
> your plans public.
>
> I've been working on the "edit in a temp tiddler" thing and made some big
> ugly macros that do the job swimmingly. I should be able to get the app
> converted over to using temp tiddlers for editing, in general, soon.
>
> On Thursday, July 8, 2021 at 3:43:11 AM UTC-4 TW Tones wrote:
>
>> Ed,
>> A long answer is there are ways to edit the current tiddler, even without
>> a temp tiddler. I am building a solution which does this now, it involves a
>> little gymnastics and is hard to explain with too many different aspects to
>> it. I will eventually publish something.
>>
>> One handy way is to have a tiddler dedicated to editing other tiddlers.
>> In there you select the tiddler you want to edit, and all your editing
>> takes place on the not visible selected tiddler.
>>
>> Regards
>> Tones
>>
>> On Wednesday, 7 July 2021 at 23:25:01 UTC+10 Ed Heil wrote:
>>
>>> This is all great info, and clearly what I need to do. I didn't realize
>>> that there was special behavior for $:/temp tiddlers with respect to
>>> saving. (The only mention I can find on tiddlywiki.com is in "Naming
>>> of System Tiddlers" which I thought was just about naming conventions, not
>>> names which trigger special behavior.) Now I've got to figure out whether
>>> it's doable to fix my app piecemeal -- which has tons of editing fields
>>> which act directly on the tiddler they're on -- or whether I need to
>>> somehow start over with a temp-tiddler-based editing flow. Ah well. You
>>> live and learn.
>>>
>>> Thanks again for pointing me at $:/temp.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 2:09:13 AM UTC-4 PMario wrote:
>>>
>>>> uups forgot something,
>>>> Clicking the [OK] button will work the other way around. Clone temp ->
>>>> form and delete the temp.
>>>> The edittext-widgets tiddler parameter will need to be a variable. ...
>>>> depending on which tiddler is active atm. form or temp
>>>> -m
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 8:06:28 AM UTC+2 PMario wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 4:29:30 AM UTC+2 Ed Heil wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks, TW, PMario. What defines a temporary tiddler for these
>>>>>> purposes? Being under $:/temp/ ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes. ... It depends how your form looks like and how the tiddler you
>>>>> need looks like. I would define a view-mode for the form, where the edit
>>>>> fields are not active, but show the content of the "form tiddler". This
>>>>> can be done with the "disabled" parameter since 5.1.23. ...
>>>>>
>>>>> A button eg: [Config] will copy the "form tiddler" into the "temp
>>>>> tiddler". If the temp tiddler exists, the "disabled" state will be
>>>>> switched
>>>>> to "no" and the values can be changed. [OK] [Cancel] buttons that
>>>>> replaces
>>>>> the [Config] button will be shown.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cloning the "form tiddler" can be done with ActionCreateTiddlerWidget,
>>>>> which has $template and $overwrite params since 5.1.22
>>>>>
>>>>> A disabled filter can look like this: disabled={{{
>>>>> [[$:/temp/form]is[tiddler]then[no]else[yes]] }}}
>>>>>
>>>>> hope that helps
>>>>> -mario
>>>>>
>>>>>
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