As mal says, If you use set you are defining a value/variable you must name it name=myvar you can give it a value=<<currentTiddler>>
Regards tony On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 6:35:44 PM UTC+11, admls wrote: > > Hi Tony, > > My understanding is that if the name parameter is left out of the set > widget, the variable name defaults to "currentTiddler". I could be > mistaken, of course. > > > Hi Mark, > > That doesn't seem to be working for me. It's acting like there is nothing > at those fields, but I've made sure that there are some values there. > > > Best wishes, > Adam > > On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 4:02:42 AM UTC, Mark S. wrote: >> >> Hello Adam, >> >> The following version works. >> >> \define concatStateTiddler() >> <$set filter="[all[current]get[draft.of]] [all[current]!has[draft.of]] >> +[addprefix[$:/state/]]" name="kitty"><$text text=<<kitty>>/></$set> >> \end >> >> \define backup(value) >> <$wikify text=<<concatStateTiddler>> name=cst> >> <$view tiddler=<<cst>> field="""$value$"""/> >> </$wikify> >> \end >> >> >> You can't concatenate a <<variable>> inside text like that ... well ... >> maybe with a lot of patient application of wikify (which I needed anyways). >> Instead, I used the "addprefix" operator to do the concatenation, following >> up on a suggestion by Jeremy in an earlier post today. >> >> Note, all the extra space and line feeds had to be squeezed out of >> concatStateTiddler -- if GG puts them back in ... take them out. >> >> The <$text> widget was used to convert the resulting item (which would >> otherwise have been a link because *filter* generates a title list) into >> plain text, and <$wikify> was used to make the entire result of >> concatStateTiddler into a single variable. >> >> Hope this was something like what you wanted! >> >> -- Mark >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, February 12, 2019 at 4:58:14 PM UTC-8, admls wrote: >>> >>> Hi Folks, >>> >>> I'm trying to populate a stylesheet, but I'm having trouble getting >>> these macros to work together. The concatStateTiddler macro is supposed to >>> give me the name of a state tiddler tacked composed of a prefix and the >>> name of the currentTiddler. The backup macro is supposed to fetch some >>> value from the state tiddler if it is present. And if it is not present, it >>> should fetch it from a set of backup values. >>> >>> \define concatStateTiddler() >>> <$set filter="[all[current]get[draft.of]] [all[current]!has[draft.of]]"> >>> "$:/state/<<currentTiddler>>" >>> </$set> >>> \end >>> >>> \define backup(value) >>> <$view tiddler=$(concatStateTiddler)$ field="""$value$"""> >>> <$view tiddler="$:/config/backup-values" field="""backup-$value$"""> >>> </$view> >>> </$view> >>> \end >>> >>> I can get it to work if concatStateTiddler looks like this: >>> \define concatStateTiddler() >>> "$:/state/$(currentTiddler)$" >>> \end >>> >>> But I want the view and edit mode versions of the tiddler to use the >>> same state tiddler. Hence the first version of concatStateTiddler. But the >>> first version doesn't play nice with the backup macro. Any ideas of what >>> I'm doing wrong here? >>> >>> The only thing I can think is that the set widget is creating a list, >>> even if it is a list consisting of only one element (on account of the use >>> of [all[current]]). That list format may be playing havoc with the backup >>> macro. But I really don't have any idea beyond that. Any help would be >>> greatly appreciated. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Adam >>> >> -- 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/7cd1b6b4-7f2c-4808-995f-abaafe83380d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
