Most excellent and many thanks! With those new knowledge bits I can move on to construct the entire thing.
On Sunday, April 3, 2016 at 8:06:12 AM UTC-5, Knut Franke wrote: > > On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 11:49:29 PM UTC+2, Christopher Londrie wrote: >> >> 1) If I remove the field[corpname] I'm able to successfully pull the >> titles of the GenSource: tiddler(s), however with it, I get null as a >> result, I've made absolutely sure that I've made no spelling mistakes and >> the GenSource tiddler does indeed have that field, am I specifying this >> wrong? >> > > As Mark said, you probably want `get[corpname]`. > > 2) How do I properly insert tags using the variables, they're considered >> literal inside the quotes, and ignored outside of them. >> > > Common pitfall. At the top of your tiddler, define a macro, like so: > > \define createCorpTiddler() > <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" title="Corp:$(FirstName)$" > tags="Corp Corp:$(FirstName$)-$(LastName$)"/> > \end > > Then, inside your button, insert this macro: > > <$button>Generate Corp > <<createCorpTiddler>> > </$button> > > Basically, you need the `$(variable)$` syntax for this kind of > interpolation, but that is only available in macro bodies. > > 3) Am I going about this in an absurd manner? >> > > Dunno. Life is absurd. This bit doesn't strike me as particularly more so > than the rest. > > > Cheers, > Knut > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a311c7d4-3b7f-4d9d-b0e5-d47a21b8118f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
