Hi, I managed to make a tool that's good enough to do what I need it to do for now. I'd still like to understand the tansclusion question better. This is what I made
https://6c5416d85b78243586803bdbb4771b5d2d699363.googledrive.com/host/0B8H35yJ22OmzOEo2dHJsR2dFblk/TaGger.2014.07.15.html#009ControlPanel:009ControlPanel Thankyou again for your help and your widgets. Regards, Richard On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 6:54:40 PM UTC+10, Richard Smith wrote: > > Thankyou very much indeed. Your explanation is very helpful. I am starting > to understand (slowly) how the whole thing works. Your other plugins are > also very interesting. Agin, thankyou very much. > > My plan was to have a text-input box where I can type a filter expression > and see the list it generates and another box where I can type a tag, then > a button to click to apply the tag to all the tiddlers. > > I understand (I think) now why that is not yet possible. I agree the other > solution of click, click, click is just fine. > > One idea I had was to append +[!tag[$:/tagtoadd]] to the filter expression > so that when the button gets clicked, the tag gets added to the first item > on the list and it pops off the top of the list because now it has the tag > $:/tagtoadd. > > What I'm having trouble with (at the moment) is successfully passing text > by reference - I don't understand the rules! > > This is the simplest example of what I don't understand (right now) I'd be > really grateful for an explanation. > > If I have a tiddler called "one" and it's text is [!is[system]] and a > tiddler "two" with text <$list filter={{one}} ></$list> then tiddler "two" > will render as a list of non-system tiddlers. Cool. > > Then if I make "three" with text {{one}} I get a transclusion of "one". > All good. > > But now when I make "four" with the text <$list filter={{three}} > ></$list>, it renders as {{one}} , which is the text of "three", and not > the list I was expecting. > > What's the right syntax to make "four" render as expected? > > Regards, > Richard > > On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 12:11:55 AM UTC+10, Matabele wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I've added a demo at: http://gwiz.tiddlyspot.com >> >> regards >> >> On Monday, July 14, 2014 1:33:30 PM UTC+2, Richard Smith wrote: >>> >>> I have been reading and experimenting with many examples and have tried >>> to figure this out for myself for quite a while... >>> >>> How would I apply the $mangletags widget to multiple tiddlers at once as >>> selected by a filter expression? >>> Can this be done in response to a button push? >>> >> -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
