Yet another how to question

[David Gifford]

Hi all

I have a new tiddler button set up, but the only element I am not sure how to do is this: text="GRAB contents of the text field of another tiddler and paste as text in the new tiddler"

I don't want to transclude the other tiddler, but paste its contents.

Any ideas?

Dave

[Mark S.]

This is probably simpler than what you want but technically works:

<$button>Set Contents of target tiddler  from text of Tiddler B
<$action-setfield $tiddler="target tiddler" text={{B!!text}}/>
</$button>

If "target tiddler" doesn't exist it will be made.

[David Gifford]

Thanks Mark, but here is what I am doing:

1. Here is the new button so far. I have the title as a date and time, and other fields. So I don't think your solution would work (?).

<$button class="tc-btn-invisible">
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" title=<<now "YYYY-0MM-0DD 0hh:0mm:0ss">> text="" domain="" topic="" />
{{$:/core/images/new-button}}
</$button>

2. I have a separate list widget process for the tiddlers created by this process. Note that it renders text AS text. That is why I can't use transclusion.

<$list filter="[!domain[]sort[domain]]"><h3><$view field="domain"/></h3><$link><$view field="topic"/></$link><br><br><$view field="text" format="text" /><br></$list>

Thanks again

[Mark S.]

Your first post said you wanted to grab the text of an existing tiddler and put it into the text of another tiddler. But I don't understand in your example what tiddler will be providing the text.

[David Gifford]

Hi Mark,

The example had the text part blank because I am still not sure what to put there. But the tiddler is $:/.giffmex/template/new.tiddler

Thanks,

David Gifford

Mexico team leader, Mexico City

Resonate Global Mission
Engaging People. Embracing Christ.
A Ministry of the Christian Reformed Church
resonateglobalmission.org

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[Mark S.]

So, in your example, or in my example, can't you put:

text={{$:/.giffmex/template/new.tiddler!!text}} 

??

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[David Gifford]

Hey, that worked great! Thanks! Because of the double curly brackets I was skeptical, because it looked like transclusion, which I had already tried. But this worked great.

[TonyM]

David

It is transclusion. You are transcluding the content found at the tiddler and field specified in the "text reference" between the curly braces.

Regards
Tony