Tiddler Templates

[Gerardo Vélez]

Hi all,

Before asking, would like to tell you that I have somehow managed to stick to TWC for quite a long time after the TW5 release. Made some attempts to migrate but TW5 seemed so overwhelmingly different that the learning curve always turned me down. Now I have gathered enough courage to face the storm and do the final transition and I can tell you it's being as painful as I thought it'd be. Or maybe more.

So far I'm getting info from here and there and solving my questions but this one is being haunting me for a while and I think it's so simple nobody asked for it.

I just want every single tiddler I create (no matter the tag) to have some text already in place before I start writing in the text box.

So when I click in New Tiddler, a new one pops up and the text box instead of empty has whatever text I want there. I don't need any other adjustment (at least not yet)

Any help from the amazing TW community would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

[Mat]

We're many who have experienced the pain you're in. It's worth it.

IMO your question should be simple to solve.... but having tried the following I was surprised to see it doesn't work. Maybe someone can tell what I'm doing wrong:

Create a template, i.e a regular tiddler, that has the content you want. Then change the text in:

$:/core/ui/Actions/new-tiddler

into

<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" $param="TITLEOFYOURTEMPLATE"/>

Nope. OK, as per this example change the content intstead to:

<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" text={{TITLEOFYOURTEMPLATE}} />

...but nope again. 

So sorry. Hopefully someone else can help.

BTW regarding the shadow tiddler the $:/core/ui/Actions/new-tiddler: I note that in the prerelease the macrocall in this tiddler has added a tags parameter which is not existant in the current release. If you change this tiddler then you should take in your next update to make sure you change it accordingly.

<:-)

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Mat

You’ve found a subtle bug with the button widget that was causing it to not refresh when the “actions” attribute value changes. It’s fixed here:

https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/665b63ec38b75dfe62009d2f5514682de60e953f

The fixed version will be available at https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease in a few minutes,

Best wishes

Jeremy

On 8 Mar 2020, at 16:30, Mat <matia...@gmail.com> wrote:

We're many who have experienced the pain you're in. It's worth it.

IMO your question should be simple to solve.... but having tried the following I was surprised to see it doesn't work. Maybe someone can tell what I'm doing wrong:

Create a template, i.e a regular tiddler, that has the content you want. Then change the text in:

$:/core/ui/Actions/new-tiddler

into

<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" $param="TITLEOFYOURTEMPLATE"/>

Nope. OK, as per this example change the text intstead to:

<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" text={{TITLEOFYOURTEMPLATE}} />

...but nope again. 

So sorry. Hopefully someone else can help.

BTW regarding the shadow tiddler the $:/core/ui/Actions/new-tiddler: I note that in the prerelease the macrocall in this tiddler has added a tags parameter which is not existant in the current release. If you change this tiddler then you should take in your next update to make sure you change it accordingly.

<:-)

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[Mat]

Jeremy Ruston wrote:

You’ve found a subtle bug with the button widget that was causing it to not refresh

LOL! No-refresh bugs seem to be my thing lately! 

Thanks for attending to it so quickly!

<:-)

[Jeremy Ruston]

> LOL! No-refresh bugs seem to be my thing lately!

Thanks for digging them up, they can be quite mindbending to work on!

Best wishes

Jeremy

[Gerardo Vélez]

Hi all,

Sorry I couldn't reply you earlier. I live in the other side of the world.

Just tried it as per Mat instructions (second option), refreshed and worked like a charm so many many thanks!

And in the process a bug was successfully caught so the outcome was great!

Regards,

[Donald Coates]

If you haven't checked out the-book I can't recommend it enough.  Regular updates are posted here as it is a work in progress but I have found the structured presentation extremely helpful.

[Gerardo Vélez]

Wow! I wonder how I never stumbled upon this book after so many hours wandering around looking for answers.

Many thanks for the link and I'll get sure to follow up on the updates.