Automatically fill out tiddler

[Fred Minsana]

Hi there

I want to add a new journal tiddler every day, but would like each new tiddler to contain the content from another tiddler.

E.g. every day I can create a tiddler that contains:

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

and then I can just fill in extra information like this:

Heading 1

Text specific to that day

Heading 2

...

Heading 3

...

 

What is the best way to do this?

Thanks a lot for your time!

[Mark S.]

See https://tiddlywiki.com/#Making%20a%20custom%20journal%20button

Good luck!
Mark

[TonyM]

Mark,

As far as I can see the link you provided does not provide templated text to each new tiddler. I am still not clear on the best way to make new tiddler/journal  templates to provide a good answer to Fred.

Personally I wold create a whole new new tiddler button using <<now>> to title it and a template text to populate its contents.

Of course the work around is to create a template tiddler and simply clone it when a new one is needed.

Regards

Tony

[Mark S.]

Ah, I see my faith in TW documentation goes unrewarded.

Here's what the directions should be like to include the body of the New Journal Tiddler:

To get your own custom Journal button, start by cloning the New Journal button.

Then create your own config tiddlers, eg:

• $:/config/myNewTiddler/Tags and ...
• $:/config/myNewTiddler/Title
• $:/config/myNewTiddler/Text

Edit your custom button and "search and replace" the config tiddler names.

 

Change the following lines, near the end of the tiddler from

<$set name="journalTitleTemplate" value={{$:/config/NewJournal/Title}}>
<$set name="journalTags" value={{$:/config/NewJournal/Tags}}>
<$set name="journalText" value={{$:/config/NewJournal/Text}}>

 

to

 

<$set name="journalTitleTemplate" value={{$:/config/myNewTiddler/Title}}>
<$set name="journalTags" value={{$:/config/myNewTiddler/Tags}}>
<$set name="journalText" value={{$:/config/myNewTiddler/Text}}>

if you want to see your config tiddlers in the sidebar use:

 

<$set name="journalTitleTemplate" value={{config/myNewTiddler/Title}}>
<$set name="journalTags" value={{config/myNewTiddler/Tags}}>
<$set name="journalText" value={{config/myNewTiddler/Text}}>

HTHMTP (Hope this helps more than previous)

-- Mark

[Birthe C]

Why not do it from control panel info tab? Title, text and tag. That must be the easy way.

Birthe

[Mark S.]

Well sure, if you want to do it the easy way ;-)