Hi r As far as I remember, the ActionSetfield widget may also be used in conjunction with a widget message to open the new tiddlers for editing.
regards On Saturday, 4 February 2017 02:31:16 UTC+2, Matabele wrote: > > Hi J Mc and Tobias > > I can give a kind of general answer. > > The ActionSetfield widget may be used by way of a hack to create new > tiddlers silently in the background, since setting the value of a field of > a non-existent tiddler currently results in the missing tiddler being > created quietly in the background. However, this did not fit all of my > requirements, hence the ActionMaketid widget -- some quick notes: > -- There is no option to open the list of new tiddlers in the story river > nor open the list of tiddlers for editing (or indeed, with two > ActionMaketid widgets, some mix of the three scenarios). > -- The ActionMaketid widget came derived from a line of widgets whose > purpose was the creation of multipurpose buttons > -- The ActionMaketid widget requires a list of titles as input (and can > create simple series of tiddlers, such as indexed with an integer on its > own) > -- I cut down one of Tobias widgets to be used for more complex cases > -- There may be cases where the ActionSetfield method is either sufficient > or superior to the MakeTid method > -- I began be using the ActionSetfield (actually my old SetField widget) > method to create tiddlers by default and wrote the ActionMaketid to do some > things impossible with the ActionSetfield method > -- nowadays I tend to try the ActionMaketid first (its made for the > purpose) > > regards > > On Thursday, 2 February 2017 14:31:25 UTC+2, Tobias Beer wrote: >> >> Hi J, >> >> As far as I can see, it cannot, since it provides >> the button itself rather act like other ActionWidgets >> <http://tiddlywiki.com/#ActionWidgets>. >> >> However, you can use tobibeer/make >> <http://tobibeer.github.io/tw5-plugins/#make> and tobibeer/split >> <http://tobibeer.github.io/tw5-plugins/#split> >> alongside the WidgetMessage: tm-new-tiddler >> <http://tiddlywiki.com/#WidgetMessage%3A%20tm-new-tiddler> like so: >> >> <$set name="titleFoo" filter="[[foo]make[%title% %date% \ >> date-format:YYYY-0MM-0DD]split[ ]]"> >> <$set name="titleBar" filter="[[bar]make[%title% %date% \ >> date-format:0hh:0mm:0ss]split[ ]]"> >> <$button> >> <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" title=<<titleFoo>> >> tags="Foo" text=<<now "Today is DDth, MMM YYYY">>/> >> <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" title=<<titleBar>> >> tags="Bar" text=<<now "Today is DDth, MMM YYYY">>/> >> Create two tiddlers in edit-mode >> </$button> >> </$set> >> </$set> >> >> Alternatively, you can use the ActionSetFieldWidget >> <http://tiddlywiki.com/#ActionSetFieldWidget> instead, >> to create the tiddlers silently, w/o EditMode: >> >> <$set name="titleFoo" filter="[[foo]make[%title% %date% \ >> date-format:YYYY-0MM-0DD]split[ ]]"> >> <$set name="titleBar" filter="[[bar]make[%title% %date% \ >> date-format:0hh:0mm:0ss]split[ ]]"> >> <$button> >> <$action-setfield $tiddler=<<titleFoo>> >> text=<<now "Today is DDth, MMM YYYY">> >> tags="Foo"/> >> <$action-setfield $tiddler=<<titleBar>> >> text=<<now "Today is DDth, MMM YYYY">> >> tags="Bar"/> >> <$action-navigate $to=<<titleBar>>/> >> <$action-navigate $to=<<titleFoo>>/> >> Create two tiddlers silently and open them >> </$button> >> </$set> >> </$set> >> >> You can try the above examples directly at: >> >> http://tobibeer.github.io/tw5-plugins >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Tobias. >> > -- 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/a09ea5c7-dcb7-4cd7-ae4a-89b5914c3940%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
