On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 6:03 PM, BJ <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it would be good if a tiddler could refer to its own fields >
The transclude widget could be extended to set variable(s) to the name of the tiddler/field/index that was transcluded, would that help? Best wishes Jeremy. > > > On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 4:28:42 PM UTC-6, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >> >> Hi Tobias >> >> Sorry for the late reply. >> >> Transcluding with the curly braces syntax actually generates a nested >> pair of a tiddler widget to set the current tiddler and a transclude widget >> to do the transclusion. So the result is just like TWC - by default, >> transcluding a tiddler sets the current tiddler to that tiddler. >> >> > When something is tagged $:/tag/PageTemplate ...this context is?!? I >> don't know >> >> That's the point, neither do I! If there was a sensible default we could >> implement it. >> >> Anyhow, if you're underlying problem is that you'd like to be able to >> create wikitext that displays differently according to whether it is in the >> sidebar or in a tiddler, then there has been a thread about that here that >> you should be able to find. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy. >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Tobias Beer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Jeremy, >>> >>> >>>> Why would you expect "currentTiddler" to be defined outside of the >>>> story river? >>>> >>> And what value would you expect it to have? >>>> >>> >>> In TWc, there were two cases in addition to the "story-tiddler"... >>> >>> 1. a placeholder had the "tiddler" attribute set to the corrsponding >>> tiddler, e.g. SiteTitle >>> 2. a transclusion had the "tiddler" attribute set to the >>> corresponding tiddler being transcluded via the tiddler macro >>> >>> So, there was that way of knowing from within either of these instances >>> what placeholder we're in, i.e. what is being rendered. There even had to >>> be special handling via *story.findContainingTiddler* to find the >>> actual story tiddler within code. Now, I am not saying this was better, but >>> it turns out I am missing that other variant now, especially when there is >>> no story around my rendered tiddler. >>> >>> When something tagged *$:/tag/ViewTemplate* is rendered, then >>> *currentTiddler* for that template is what? Exactly, the tiddler for >>> which the template is rendered. When something is tagged >>> *$:/tag/PageTemplate* ...this context is?!? I don't know. But I'd sure >>> like to know from within the code of that tiddler as you can see ...call it >>> *contextTiddler*. :) >>> >>> Best wishes, Tobias. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jeremy Ruston >> mailto:[email protected] >> > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- 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.
