Steve I posted a more general solution to editing fields from the view tiddler mode here https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/tiddlywiki/kLqyVrjcJ50 which should help you edit items in the current tiddler, without any temp tiddlers.
See also my reply in https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/tiddlywiki/GhsrGyK7eIk that covers concatination and why you have to do it. Regards Tony On Tuesday, July 23, 2019 at 7:42:01 AM UTC+10, Steven Schneider wrote: > > I have a bunch of tiddlers, and each of my tiddlers has a bunch of tags. > For each of the tags in a tiddler, I'd like to use edit-text to create an > opportunity to enter a value in a field named similarly to the tag > (replacing [spaces] with [-] hyphens (thats line 2 below, replacing spaces > with a "-" using the split and join plugins at > https://tobibeer.github.io/tw5-plugins > <https://tobibeer.github.io/tw5-plugins/#Welcome>)). > > I'm having trouble, however, writing back to the original tiddler in the > proper field; my <$action-setfield> is not writing to the proper field. > > Suggestion? > > Thanks, > > //steve. > > > > <$list filter="[is[current]tags[]"> > <$vars thisField={{{[<currentTiddler>split[ ]join[-]]}}}> > > <<thisField>>:<br> > <$edit-text tiddler=<<thisField>> field="text"/> > <$button> > Update > <$action-setfield $tiddler=<<thisProject>> <<thisField>>={{thisField}}/> > </$button> > <br> > > I consistently get a field called <<thisField: with a value of true > > Clearly, I don't know how to reference either my fieldName or the value of > the field (currently in a temp tiddler) -- > > Suggestions? > > Thanks in advance, > > //steve. > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/72a0f20b-8dc6-409d-b2de-a05c699f5434%40googlegroups.com.

