Hi Josiah!
I don't know if this is a bug or a feature, but action-setfield will
create tiddler if it does not exist!
Glad you like it!
--Mohammad
On Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 10:07:03 AM UTC+4:30, @TiddlyTweeter wrote:
>
> Thanks Mohammad!
>
> Very good. And excellent it silently creates the target tiddler if it
> doesn't exist. Exactly what I needed.
>
> Best wishes
> Josiah
>
>
>
> On Saturday, 6 April 2019 22:31:06 UTC+2, Mohammad wrote:
>>
>> Hi Josiah!
>> This new version works ALSO with empty tiddlers
>>
>> \define append-text(tidTitle, text:"", btnLabel:"Append Text", sep:"<br>")
>> <$button> $btnLabel$
>> <$list variable="newText"
>> filter="[<__tidTitle__>get[text]addsuffix<__sep__>addsuffix<__text__>]"
>> emptyMessage="""<$action-setfield $tiddler=<<__tidTitle__>>
>> text=<<__text__>> />""" >
>> <$action-setfield $tiddler=<<__tidTitle__>> text=<<newText>> />
>> </$list>
>> </$button>
>> \end
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 2:01:54 PM UTC+4:30, @TiddlyTweeter wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the quick response! Very useful tool!
>>>
>>> It works well except that if the target Tiddler (in the example TidB)
>>> has an empty text field it won't get appended to.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to get the append working even if the text field is empty?
>>>
>>> Many thanks!
>>> Josiah
>>>
>>> Mohammad wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You may like the below macro!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> \define append-text(tidTitle, text:"", btnLabel:"Append Text", sep:
>>>> "<br>")
>>>> <$button> $btnLabel$
>>>> <$list variable="newText" filter=
>>>> "[<__tidTitle__>get[text]addsuffix<__sep__>addsuffix<__text__>]" >
>>>> <$action-setfield $tiddler=<<__tidTitle__>> text=<<newText>> />
>>>> </$list>
>>>> </$button>
>>>> \end
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Examples*
>>>> Test on Tiddlywiki.com. Create two tiddlers, titles TidA and TidB
>>>>
>>>> Example 1:
>>>>
>>>> <<append-text tidTitle:"TidB" text:"This is another text">>
>>>>
>>>> Example 2:
>>>>
>>>> <$macrocall $name=append-text tidTitle="TidB" text={{TidA}} sep=" " />
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Remarks
>>>> Note changing a field needs some kind of triggering widgets! So, here I
>>>> used a button!
>>>>
>>>> - *tidTitle *gets the title of tiddler you want to append text to it
>>>> - *text *the text to be appended
>>>> - *btnLabel*: the label for button
>>>> - sep: the separator is used when appending text to end of the text
>>>> of tiddler
>>>>
>>>> If you want to append text of a base tiddler use syntax of example 2.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I hope other people gives their solutions, comment for a better and
>>>> more concise macro!
>>>>
>>>> --Mohammad
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 7:05:32 PM UTC+4:30, @TiddlyTweeter wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The use case is you create a tiddler and realise it would be better
>>>>> added to another (not via transclusion, rather, the literal content of
>>>>> "text" is appended to another Tiddler's "text" field.).
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you know how to do this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Any tips appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best wishes
>>>>> Josiah
>>>>>
>>>>
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