Can we prefill known tags?

Devin Weaver

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Sep 9, 2019, 10:43:51 AM9/9/19

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I noticed a situation in my TiddlyWiki where I will tag a tiddler with one of three tags: Pending, InProgress, inReview. But when one of those tags has no tiddlers it is removed from the drop down when editing tiddlers. Which means that I have to type the tag in when there there are no tiddlers currently tagged with it.

Is there a way to prefill that list? In normal usage I like that tags are removed from the drop down but in this one edge case I like to pin some tags to always be in the drop down for selecting even when there are no tiddlers currently tagged with that tag.

Aidan Grey

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Sep 9, 2019, 10:48:13 AM9/9/19

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Lots of ways...

I keep a tag tiddler, just to hold tags like this - that's probably the easiest thing to do.

On Mon, Sep 9, 2019, 8:43 AM Devin Weaver, <weaver...@gmail.com> wrote:

I noticed a situation in my TiddlyWiki where I will tag a tiddler with one of three tags: Pending, InProgress, inReview. But when one of those tags has no tiddlers it is removed from the drop down when editing tiddlers. Which means that I have to type the tag in when there there are no tiddlers currently tagged with it.

Is there a way to prefill that list? In normal usage I like that tags are removed from the drop down but in this one edge case I like to pin some tags to always be in the drop down for selecting even when there are no tiddlers currently tagged with that tag.

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Devin Weaver

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Sep 9, 2019, 11:28:48 AM9/9/19

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I thought about that. How do you prevent that tiddler from being included in any lists for said tags?

On Monday, September 9, 2019 at 10:48:13 AM UTC-4, Aidan Grey wrote:

Lots of ways...

I keep a tag tiddler, just to hold tags like this - that's probably the easiest thing to do.

On Mon, Sep 9, 2019, 8:43 AM Devin Weaver, <weave...@gmail.com> wrote:

I noticed a situation in my TiddlyWiki where I will tag a tiddler with one of three tags: Pending, InProgress, inReview. But when one of those tags has no tiddlers it is removed from the drop down when editing tiddlers. Which means that I have to type the tag in when there there are no tiddlers currently tagged with it.

Is there a way to prefill that list? In normal usage I like that tags are removed from the drop down but in this one edge case I like to pin some tags to always be in the drop down for selecting even when there are no tiddlers currently tagged with that tag.

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coda coder

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Sep 9, 2019, 11:37:25 AM9/9/19

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With a tiddler open for viewing, click on the tag of interest. Choose the top entry. This opens a tiddler with the tag-name as its title. Edit it and add some text. Repeat for each tag.

Aidan Grey

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Sep 9, 2019, 11:37:48 AM9/9/19

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Couple ways...

For some, i just explicitly exclude in the filter :

[tag[groups]!title[grouptags]]

I also use "noshow" tags excluded as above, for the more frequent occuring bits.

And then i also have an ignore tiddler containing tags that i never want to see anywhere (mostly for admin/meta type tags). I have set up the filters to always exclude these, and have one place where i filter for them explicitly to see for editing etc.

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PMario

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Sep 9, 2019, 1:17:28 PM9/9/19

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Hi Devin,

The easiest way to get started is:

- Create your tag tiddlers

- Go to AdvancedSearch: Filters tab

- Enter the names of your tags, so they are listed

- Select the "Export" menu (3rd icon from the left)

- Export as JSON

- Give it a good name

- Drag and drop this JSON file into your new wikis.

Done!

Have fun!

mario

TonyM

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Sep 9, 2019, 9:05:03 PM9/9/19

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Devin,

For most tiddler I create I have a template to create them where I can pre-populate the tags, such templates have the system prefix $:/ and whenever I list of reference such tags I say "[!is[system]" so the template source does not appear.

However in your use case I would assume Pending, InProgress, inReview are mutually exclusive, if you have one, you do not have the other. In this case I would create a status field and allow only one value at a time rather than use tags. Using tags you need to go out of your way to remove the last tag.