Hi Mark,
thank you for your answer, it's not exactly what I was looking for (I
would rather avoid using a tiddler to store the value), but it got me
thinking again and I found the solution!
Basically it consists in using a macro with a default value for a
parameter, and using the macrocall widget (otherwise an undefined
variable is interpreted as the empty string apparently). Here it is:
\define default-if-empty(v:"default") $v$
! version 1: param has a value
<$set name=param value="my-value">
<$macrocall $name="default-if-empty" v=<<param>> />
</$set>
! version 2: param is undefined
<$macrocall $name="default-if-empty" v=<<param>> />
This is probably what Mat was referring to in his answer yesterday,
somehow it hit my brain only now :-)
If anyone is interested, the problem which got me thinking about that is
explained here: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/2044
Thank you all!
Erwan
On 26/10/15 19:04, 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki wrote:
I'm not sure if I understand 100% what you want, but your first
example had a couple problems. The first was that the <$set> was
missing a "Value" attribute. The 2nd was that the filter chosen was
guaranteed to have a match, so the default would never get selected.
The following works at least in a very simple way:
<$set name="param" value="myvalue">
<$set name="vi" filter="[field:title<param>]"
emptyValue="defaultisinourstars" value="ok">
<$text text=<<vi>>>
</$set>
</$set>
If there is a tiddler that matches "myvalue", then "ok" is selected.
If not, the emptyValue is selected.
It helps to use the "filter" option of the advanced search when trying
to figure out what kind of inputs the filter is looking for.
Mark
On Sunday, October 25, 2015 at 7:46:49 AM UTC-7, Erwan wrote:
Hi again everyone,
use case: I want to build MyTemplate which shows a link to the
current
tiddler, with the text of the link being either a specific value
given
as parameter, or "title" by default.
So I'm trying to assign a variable "v" with the value of variable
"param" if "param" is defined, or some default value otherwise. I
tried
this:
<$set name="param" value="myvalue">
<$set name="v" filter="[<param>]" emptyValue="default">
<$text text=<<v>>>
</$set>
</$set>
but it doesn't work. I also tried various combinations like:
<$set name="v" filter="[<param>]" value=<<param>>
emptyValue="default">
but that would assign either "myvalue" or nothing instead of
"default"... I'm confused.
I guess another way to phrase the question is: how can I check
whether a
variable has a value or not?
Regards
Erwan
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