Populating a Select from a user input term

[Stephen Kimmel]

A regular search generates a list of links. Instead of that I want to populate a $Select widget list. I've been able to populate the $Select widget list from a $List that includes a search operator that has a hard coded entry in the filter using something like this

<$select>
<$list filter='[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[WikiText]search[quote]sort[title]]'>
<option value=<<currentTiddler>>><$view field='caption'/></option>
</$list>
</$select>

but nothing I've tried has allowed me to put something changeable in there like.

<$list filter='[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[WikiText]search[{{$:/temp/searchterm}}]sort[title]]'>

My luck with variables hasn't been any better.

<$list filter='[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[WikiText]search[<<searchterm>>]sort[title]]'>

This seems like it ought to be a straightforward problem but it has me stumped. Anyone out there have a way of doing this?

[PMario]

Hi,

try this:

<$select>
<$list filter='[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[WikiText]search{$:/temp/searchterm}sort[title]]'>

<option value=<<currentTiddler>>><$view field='caption'/></option>
</$list>
</$select>

see: http://tiddlywiki.com/#TextReference

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I used this to test the stuff

<$edit-text tiddler="$:/temp/searchterm" tag=input/>

{{{[tag[WikiText]search{$:/temp/searchterm}]}}}

-mario

[Mark S.]

Using transclusion in a filter has a special syntax -- just put the item in single curly brackets instead of bracket and double curlies . So your filter now looks like:

<$list filter='[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[WikiText]search{$:/temp/searchterm}sort[title]]'>

HTH
Mark

[PMario]

On Friday, April 1, 2016 at 11:55:49 PM UTC+2, PMario wrote:

<option value=<<currentTiddler>>><$view field='caption'/></option>

IMO here is a problem! .. If a tiddler has no caption field, it creates an empty element in the select box. So either you need to make sure this never happens or you need a title fallback.

-mario

[Stephen Kimmel]

Mario and Mark,

Many thanks. Your reworking was exactly what I needed. I had missed the detail of the single curly bracket when used with a filter.

I went with the caption field rather than the title because some of what I'm having the user look-up are system files which I find have names that can be confusing. You're right. A tiddler without a caption will produce a blank line and that isn't the best. Still, if I could figure some way to show the caption preferentially and the title if the caption field was blank I would be a happy camper.

[Mark S.]

Eric Shulman explained how to do a preferential caption/title a few weeks ago:

<$view field='caption'><$view field='title'/></$view>

HTH
Mark

[Stephen Kimmel]

Mark, (and indirectly Eric)

I am tardy thanking you for that tip. That worked like a champ.

There are times I suspect that Eric knows Tiddlywiki as well as Jeremy.

Thanks for the tip.