New User Troubles

[Richard U]

I really only want to make one change to the basic operation, and am finding it extremely difficult.

My goal is to open my page with the right sidebar closed. Not removed, but just as if someone had already pressed: >>

So far, I've read I should install this plugin; http://www.tiddlytools.com/#InlineJavascriptPlugin

From the tiddlywiki.com plugins section, I read I should look for something starting with: $:/plugins

I don't see anything like that. 

So I've read I should be able to copy the code into a new tiddler with the tag of systemConfig. I can't get that to work either.

I would appreciate any ideas. Or is there another way to accomplish my goal?

Thanks, Richard

[Eric Shulman]

On Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 11:02:55 AM UTC-7, Richard U wrote:

I really only want to make one change to the basic operation, and am finding it extremely difficult.

My goal is to open my page with the right sidebar closed. Not removed, but just as if someone had already pressed: >>

So far, I've read I should install this plugin; http://www.tiddlytools.com/#InlineJavascriptPlugin

All my TiddlyTools plugins are for TiddlyWiki Classic *ONLY*... not for TiddlyWiki5.

 

From the tiddlywiki.com plugins section, I read I should look for something starting with: $:/plugins

I don't see anything like that. 

So I've read I should be able to copy the code into a new tiddler with the tag of systemConfig. I can't get that to work either.

The "systemConfig" tag is only for TiddlyWiki Classic.

I would appreciate any ideas. Or is there another way to accomplish my goal?

Fortunately, your desired use-case is relatively easy to achieve:

The current state of the sidebar is stored in a tiddler [[$:/state/sidebar]].  This tiddler is saved with the document, so if you close the sidebar, and then save the document with the sidebar closed, it will still be closed when you reload the document later.

However, closing the sidebar hides the "save changes" button, so saving with the sidebar closed is problematic.  To work around this, you can add the save button directly to the "TopRightBar" in the page layout, so that it will still be available after closing the sidebar.

1) create a new tiddler (e.g., [[ShowSaveWikiButton]])

2) Enter the following content:

   {{$:/core/ui/Buttons/save-wiki}}

3) tag it with "$:/tags/TopRightBar"

This will cause the "save changes" button to be displayed in the upper right corner of the page (right next to the sidebar toggle button).  You can then proceed to close the sidebar and click the save button.  Q.E.D.

enjoy,

-e

Eric Shulman

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[Richard U]

Thanks so much for your prompt reply and solution which works perfectly. 

I'm sure your site probably says Classic Only all over it, but I was not attuned to the difference between classic and 5, particularly since I noticed the storyview is "classic". 

Again. Thank you.