Jeremy,
A suggestion,
Such advice should be in the ViewWidget tiddler on tiddlywiki.com as I have
visited this many times in my learning process to discover it useless for
what I wanted to do, alternatively the formats could be extended to support
those commonly desired by users.
Regards
Tony
On Thursday, January 25, 2018 at 4:51:53 AM UTC+11, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
>
> Hi PassingBy
>
> That works! Thank you Mark. But just for understanding, why does the view
> widget with "plainwikified" format not work?
>
>
> The common use cases for the view widget are fairly specialised:
> displaying fields in plain text, and formatting dates. The various encoding
> and wikified formats are primarily for use in TiddlyWiki’s internal
> templates.
>
> The “plainwikified” format actually wikifies the argument and then
> extracts the plain text of the result. So, plainwikified “jeremy” is
> “jeremy” but plainwikified “<p>jeremy</p>” is still just “jeremy”. That’s
> almost certainly not what you wanted.
>
> If you want to wikify a field then you should use transclusion, either
> with the double curly braces shortcut format or with the <$transclude>
> widget.
>
> If you want to display a field as plain text then you can use the view
> widget or the text widget. The following are equivalent:
>
> <$text text={{!!myfield}}/>
>
> <$view field="myfield"/>
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jeremy.
>
>
>
>
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