That's a bingo! Thanks very much - that's useful for so many things.
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:19 PM Eric Shulman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 2:54:54 AM UTC-7, Matthew Petty wrote:
>>
>> But when I tried just copying the code to "Family Dropdown" and
>> transcluding it, the only the person field of "Family Dropdown" was
>> changed, not the field in the current tiddler.
>>
>
> use "template transclusion", like this:
>
> {{||FamilyDropdown}}
>
> This will transclude the content from FamilyDropdown, but use the current
> tiddler for the data context. Thus, field references in FamilyDropdown
> will modify values in the current tiddler. Q.E.D.
>
> Note: the full transclusion syntax is:
> {{ContextTiddler||TemplateTiddler}}, where ContextTiddler is the source of
> the data, and TemplateTiddler is the source for the output format. In the
> above example, {{||FamilyDropdown}}, omitting the ContextTiddler implies
> the current tiddler by default.
>
> enjoy,
> -e
> Eric Shulman
> TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios
> InsideTiddlyWiki: The Missing Manuals
>
>
>
>> How can I fix that?
>>
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