Fields

[Robyn Smith]

Hello, I just got TiddlyWiki today and am very unexperienced in everything. I've figured out a fair bit of it all, but I can't figure out how to add fields to tiddlers, i.e. adding a caption and list field to the Table of Contents. How does one add a field?

[Eric Shulman]

On Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 5:50:44 PM UTC-7, Robyn Smith wrote:

Hello, I just got TiddlyWiki today and am very unexperienced in everything. I've figured out a fair bit of it all, but I can't figure out how to add fields to tiddlers, i.e. adding a caption and list field to the Table of Contents. How does one add a field?

Welcome!

"... how to add fields to tiddlers... "

When you edit a tiddler, the normal "ViewTemplate" display is replaced by the "EditTemplate" display, which shows a set of input controls.  At the bottom, you will see a row that starts with the label, "Add a new field", like this:

Add a new field:     V     add

To create a new field, enter the field name into the first input control (use only lower case letters, numbers, dash, or underscore, with NO SPACES).

Alternatively, you can select the name of a field that already exists on another tiddler by pressing the down-arrow button next to the field name control.

Then, enter the desired field value in the larger input control to the right of the down-arrow.

Lastly, press "add" to actually add the field to the tiddler.  Fields that have been added will appear in a list above the field input controls.

Once added, you can change the value of an existing field by directly editing the text in the input control next to that fieldname.

You can delete any field you've added by pressing the "trashcan" button next to that field.

Hope this helps...

enjoy,

-e

Eric Shulman

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[Birthe C]

Open the tiddler for edit, in the bottom of the tiddler you will find, Add a new field and you insert the name of the field want. In your case you want a caption and a list field. When you have added the field, you can then insert at value in the next box.

Birthe

[Robyn Smith]

Thanks a lot. For some reason, my brain just completely disregarded that part...not sure why, but it happened.