Set Tiddler Title from fields

[Glenn Dixon]

I'm experimenting. So far I have been able to take input from three fields, assign them to $:/state... and then press a button which creates a new tiddler. The new tiddler contains three fields w/ the content I originally entered as values.

But how can I merge these three fields and make *that* the title of the new tiddler?

This is the part that has so far eluded me...

Assume the fields are firstname, middlename, lastname...

[Mark S.]

You don't mention which approach you are using to create the tiddler. But if it were action-createtiddler, then your $basetitle attribute might look like this:

... $basetitle={{{ [{!!firstname}addsuffix{!!middlename}addsuffix{!!lastname}] }}} ...

[Glenn Dixon]

Thank you sir! I have now officially tried 175 different combinations of brackets and action-options! lol

I had not seen the addsuffix before. I just tried several variations of it, all of which break everything when I attempt to add spaces between names. Is there a simple/easy way of accomplishing this? Worst case I will leave it as is and the names will be squished (FirstMiddleLast) but spaces would be better, as long as it does not involve trigonometry...

[Eric Shulman]

On Monday, December 28, 2020 at 11:14:15 AM UTC-8 dix...@gmail.com wrote:

I had not seen the addsuffix before. I just tried several variations of it, all of which break everything when I attempt to add spaces between names. Is there a simple/easy way of accomplishing this? Worst case I will leave it as is and the names will be squished (FirstMiddleLast) but spaces would be better, as long as it does not involve trigonometry...

Try this:

$basetitle={{{ [{!!firstname}] [{!!middlename}] [{!!lastname}] +[join[ ]] }}}

enjoy,

-e

[Mark S.]

Just add them with addsuffix

$basetitle={{{ [{!!firstname}addsuffix[ ]addsuffix{!!middlename}addsuffix[ ]addsuffix{!!lastname}] }}} ...

In case Google breaks these lines, the new, added addsuffix operators have a space inside them.

On Monday, December 28, 2020 at 11:14:15 AM UTC-8 dix...@gmail.com wrote:

[Glenn Dixon]

that did it! A separate 'addsuffix' for each space. Not sure I would have come up with that. Thanks, again!

Now to set up blanks for the other 10 fields...

[Glenn Dixon]

Eric,

Just saw your 'join' idea - looks like a lot less typing. Might not make any difference at this point, but I have several other fields to fill, and (this is where I bite off more than I can chew) that would come in handy if I want to display a more narrative text instead of just basic table layout. Thanks for this option!