Creating a New Tiddler Working ... but how to insert variable as value?

[David]

This code shows my shopping items and whether I've gotten them yet or not.  It lists everything grouped in sections.

At the bottom of each section, I want a "New" button that opens a  new tiddler.  This is working.

But I'd love to pre-fill that "sams_club_section" field with the current section, which is stored in the "thisSection" variable.

The dollar before and after syntax, as shown below, in the $button code, is not right.  I've tried a few others.  I'm sure you guys know how to do it.

<$list filter="[list[$:/.my/data/Shopping/SamsClubSections]]" variable="thisSection">

!! <<thisSection>>

<$list filter="[<thisSection>listed[sams_club_section]tag[ShoppingItem]tag[ToGet]]" variable="item">
&nbsp; &nbsp; <$checkbox tiddler=<<item>> tag="Selected"/> <<item>><br/>
</$list>

<$button>
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler"
 title=""
 tags="ShoppingItem SamsClub"
 sams_club_section="$thisSection$"
/>
New
</$button>

</$list>

[Saq Imtiaz]

Try:

sams_club_section=<<thisSection>>

This is the synax for referring to variables and macros, the $name$ syntax only works inside of macros for text subsitution.

[David]

That worked!  Excellent!