No, you don't usually add fields globally. Once you add a field, it will show up in the dropdown list.
In terms of workflow, what I usually do is to clone a tiddler that has the fields and tags that I want. You can clone any tiddler from the dropdown in the upper right hand corner of the tiddler. You can use the control panel and have the clone button next to the edit buttons if it's more convenient. If you have a dedicated application tiddler, it's also possible to make a button that will generate, for instance, a biological specimen tiddler (with fields like genus, species, habitat already created). Using templates, you can have edit fields appear in view mode based on tags (or fields) in your tiddler. So you could tag a tiddler "Specimen" and instantly have edit fields available for inserting information. See TW documentation on templates. Macros can work locally within a tiddler or globally. See https://tiddlywiki.com/#Macro%20Definitions%20in%20WikiText . -- Mark On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 11:00:36 AM UTC-8, Jeff Wilson wrote: > > I'm probably unclear because I am assuming there is a way to add a custom > field once only, and have it show up in all Tiddlers globally, or within a > 'sub-story' or whatever a particular branch of content hierarchy is called. > > Am I wrong? If so, this means opening every single Tiddler to add this > field, which is a pain. > > > Edit: Oh, and I assumed you had to add the field name to one place in the > TiddlyWiki to make it show up in the dropdown list of the custom fields > widget. > > > > On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 1:58:15 PM UTC-5, S. S. wrote: >> >> Custom Fields are added to tiddlers either when they are created, or >> after they are created. >> See : Creating and editing tiddlers >> <https://tiddlywiki.com/#Creating%20and%20editing%20tiddlers> >> When you create a new tiddler, towards the very end there is an area to: >> Add a new field >> Fields created there are custom fields. >> >> However your specific question is to: add a custom field to *TiddlyWiki* >> This request is not clear. >> >> >> >> >> On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 11:54:47 PM UTC+7, Jeff Wilson wrote: >>> >>> What would be really cool is to add a custom field to the TiddlyWiki >>> called pdf-page-number, which I could then edit on every page that has a >>> link to the PDF. Then the macro or whatever could use the value in that >>> field to add the '#page=$pdf-page-number$' suffix to the URL. >>> >>> This would require that I understand several things: >>> >>> >>> - How does one create a custom field and display it in the editor? >>> - How does that change the macro below? Is it as simple as referring >>> to the field like a variable, which I believe is $variable-name$? >>> - Where does the macro get written in TiddlyWiki, and how do I make >>> it available to each page? >>> >>> >>> -- 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/548a4f3f-7a31-4028-afbb-886c63728ac3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
