Help with Template Transclusion

[Eli B.]

Hello everyone,

I've made a full Journal Template using various transclusions for headings, etc. which point to other tiddlers.

At the moment I enter each transclusion manually every time I write a journal, like so:

<--! this points to one tiddler for heading format-->


{{||A}}


<--! this points to another tiddler for another heading-->


{{||B}}


<--! and these point to other tiddlers, and so on-->


{{||C}}


{{||D}}


{{||E}}





What I'd like to create is a button that:

• automatically enters all those transclusions into the body of a new tiddler
• tags it as Journal
• and places a date-stamp in the title field

With some outdated tutorials I've found, I've been able to place the template as a footer of a new tiddler; which is not what I'd like to accomplish. I feel like I'm so close, but yet so far. I've done a search in the forum but have not found a proper answer. Does anyone have any suggestions or can point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

[Eli B.]

I did further research and was able to do the transclusions and tagging with one button. Now if I could only just add the date-stamp in the title field with the same button.

[Mark S.]

It depends how you went about it. If you just used a button and an action widget, you can do something like this:

<$button>Make tiddler with date
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" title=<<now "Today is DDth, MMM YYYY">>  tags="OneTag [[Another Tag]]" text=/>
</$button>

Which uses the "now" macro with a date format string.

HTH
Mark

[Eli B.]

Thanks for your answer, Mark. Someone else private-messaged me with a similar solution to yours that did the trick. I suspected the solution was simple but I was complicating it with extra steps and extra lingo.