Open tiddler in new window from menubar-link

[torax...@googlemail.com]

Hi,

I try to call a tiddler from menu-bar via a link-tiddler, but can’t figure out how. See someone a solution? With a normal $button-widget the construction would be:

<source>

<$button message="tm-open-window" param="target">target</$button>

</source>

Thank you.

Cheers

ToraxMalu

[TW Tones]

Torax,

By call I assume you mean to open the target tiddler in the new window?

The Menu bars plugin has its own way to define a target see https://tiddlywiki.com/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Ftiddlywiki%2Fmenubar

The menu bar plugin can be awkward to use, but as long as you can set the current tiddler you can just transclude the existing button 

{{||$:/core/ui/Buttons/open-window}} 

or name the target

{{target||$:/core/ui/Buttons/open-window}}

I hope this helps

Tones

[torax...@googlemail.com]

Hi.

after reading my text I am surprised to get any hint at all. Thanks Tones.

The problem description now in a proper way:

Normally you create a tiddler, tag it with "$:/tags/MenuBar", put in the caption the display text and in target the title of the targeted tiddler. And after clicking, the target-tiddler is opened in the stream.

My goal was to open the tiddler in a new window like with the "open in new window"-button.

Unfortunately it is not well descripted in the plugin-description, but Tones hinted me onto the right path. Maybe that can be included into the readme of the plugin - of cource better phrased.

Creating customized menu-entry:

1. create tiddler
2. tag it with $:/tags/MenuBar
3. prepare the tiddler as usual as a menu-bar-item
   
4. DON'T set the target field
   
5. instead pace in the text-field a $button-widget with wished action.
   
6. in the $button-widget place the Menu-Item-"text" - it can be a picture or a text - what ever suites
7. set the field custom-menu-content with {{!!text}}

My tiddler looks like this in JSON:

[
    {
        "title":"openTargetNewWindow",
        "bag":"default",
        "type":"text/vnd.tiddlywiki",
        "tags":"$:/tags/MenuBar",
        "caption":"menu text",
        "custom-menu-content":"{{!!text}}",
        "text":"<$button message=\"tm-open-window\" param=\"targettiddler\">menu text</$button>"
    }
]

Maybe it is better to set custom-menu-content with a transclusion of the tiddler itself ({{openTargetNewWindow}}) like done in $:/plugins/tiddlywiki/menubar/items/hamburger instead of using {{!!text}}. but it works – at the moment.

Hope, this helps someone else.

Cheers

ToraxMalu