SetWidget inside Macro

[Matthew DeAbreu]

Hello!

I've been using TW5 on and off for quite a while and I've recently decided to use it for taking notes/tasks while working. As part of this I'd like to have a quick and easy way to create tiddlers with a given prefix (based on tags) and a name. I haven't done much in the way of customizing TW5 before so most of this is quite new, any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

For example:

If I have a tiddler titled "PR123456 Tasks" tagged with "PR123456 [[PR Tasks]]" I would like to have a text edit field that will take the task name and produce a tiddler titled "PR123456 Task: task-name-here".

Here's some sample code:

\define concat(word1 word2)
$word1$ $word2$
\end


\define createTaskTiddler(prefix tags)
<$edit-text tiddler="$:/state/new-task-title" tag="input" default="" placeholder="Task Title"/>
<$button>
<$vars name={{$:/state/new-task-title!!text}}>
<$action-createtiddler $basetitle="$prefix$$(name)$" tags="$tags$" completed="false"/>
</$vars>
<$action-deletetiddler $tiddler="$:/state/new-task-title"/>
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-auto-save-wiki"/>
Add Task
</$button>
\end


<$list filter="[is[current]tags[]]+[!tag[PR Tasks]]">
<$set name="prNum" value=<<currentTiddler>>>
<$set name="prefix" value=<<concat $(prNum)$ "Task: ">>>


<<createTaskTiddler $(prefix)$ "$(prNum)$ Task">>


</$set>
</$set>
</$list>

You can view a semi working demo here: https://tw.mdeabreu.com/work.html#PR123456%20Tasks

When you try it you should be able to see that when you attempt to add a new task the tiddler created has the title "PR123456 Tasks: " but it is failing to transclude the title.

Any tips, help, and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Mark S.]

Your code changed a bit. I don't have time to explain what I did, but if you experiment with this it should help:

Macro: createTaskTiddler

\define basetitle() $(p1)$ Task: $(p2)$
\define createTaskTiddler()

<$edit-text tiddler="$:/state/new-task-title" tag="input" default="" placeholder="Task Title"/>
<$button>

<$vars p2={{$:/state/new-task-title!!text}} p1="$(curTag)$" >
<$action-createtiddler $basetitle=<<basetitle>> tags="$(curTag)$" completed="false"/>

</$vars>
<$action-deletetiddler $tiddler="$:/state/new-task-title" />
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-auto-save-wiki"/>
Add Task
</$button>
\end

Template file (I took out the new sections you had added in order to concentrate on the naming code, but you can paste those back in):

<$list filter="[is[current]tag[PR Tasks]]">


<$set name="curTask" value=<<currentTiddler>>>

<$list filter="[is[current]tags[]]+[!tag[PR Tasks]]">

<$set name="curTag" value=<<currentTiddler>>>

<<createTaskTiddler>>


</$set>
</$list>
</$set>

</$list>

Quickly, $(var)$ and $var$ only work INSIDE a macro. They also only work when called from a prior macro (not inside the current macro). So if you define a variable and want to use it immediately, you have to invoke it like <<myvarname>>.

Good luck,
Mark

[Matthew DeAbreu]

Hey Mark,

Just tried it out and everything worked perfectly! Did a little bit of tweaking and things are well on their way to completion.

Thank you so much for the rapid and thorough response!