I haven't had a chance to test it live with multiple people using the wiki
(which is where problems seem to arise) but "click to edit this value in a
temp tiddler and save to the real tiddler" stuff I've made seems to work so
far so theoretically I'm on the right track!
On Friday, July 9, 2021 at 1:38:01 AM UTC-4 PMario wrote:
> 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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