Macro Call : Passing TiddlerName with quotations

[Mohamed Amin]

Hello All,

Appreciate you help regarding my below issue:

Suppose that I've a set of Tiddlers called "Recipes" ( Recipe01, Recipe02, .....) where each of them has a field called "status"

Where:

{{Recipe01!!status}} = [[This is OK]]

{{Recipe02!!status}} = [[This is OK]]

{{Recipe03!!status}} = [[This is OK]]

{{Recipe04!!status}} = [[This is "Not" OK]]

{{Recipe05!!status}} = [[This is "Not" OK]]

Also, I've a simple Macro to get all Tiddler by "status" :

```

\define getWithStatus(myStatus)

<$list filter="[all[tiddlers]contains:status[$myStatus$]]" />

\end

```

As expected, when I run the below macro command:

<<getWithStatus [[This is OK]]>>

The output is OK, I got :-

Recipe01

Recipe02

Recipe03

BUT, my problem when I run the following :

<<getWithStatus [[This is "Not" OK]]>>

where the output is (the macro content with substitution of parameter) :-

```

<$list filter="[all[tiddlers]contains:status[This is "Not" OK]]" />

```

Thanks in Advance

P.S, I've tried both """_""", and '_' for the parameter :-

<<getWithStatus """This is "Not" OK""">>

<<getWithStatus 'This is "Not" OK'>>

but I got the same output, 

[Saq Imtiaz]

Try triple quotes around the list filter:

<$list filter="""[all[tiddlers]contains:status[$myStatus$]]""" />  

[Eric Shulman]

On Monday, August 24, 2020 at 1:41:42 PM UTC-7, Mohamed Amin wrote:

... I've a simple Macro to get all Tiddler by "status" :

\define getWithStatus(myStatus)
<$list filter="[all[tiddlers]contains:status[$myStatus$]]" />
\end

As expected, when I run the below macro command:

<<getWithStatus [[This is OK]]>>

The output is OK...

BUT, my problem when I run the following :

<<getWithStatus [[This is "Not" OK]]>>

I've tried both """_""", and '_' for the parameter :-

The problem is how you quote the filter inside the macro.  Use the tripled-quotes like this:

\define getWithStatus(myStatus)
<$list filter="""[all[tiddlers]contains:status[$myStatus$]]""" />
\end

Then, the value of $myStatus$ can contain quotes without a problem.

-e

[Mohamed Amin]

Thanks a lot Saq and Eric,

 

YES that was the problem, and using the tripled-quotes solved it immediately 

P.S:

I've using TW5 for almost a year now, and every day I know a new (and strange) thing about this AMAZING piece of software.

Thanks to all contributions & Community 

[PMario]

Hi Mohammad,

I'd use much simpler values for the status eg: OK and NOK or ok and nok, which are fast to type and easy to test.

just a thought.

mario

[Mohamed Amin]

Thanks PMario for your comment,

Actually the above were not a "real" values, just a way to present my issue, in real word I'm using True/False or Yes/No (but your suggestion "ok"/"nok" are very nice too) 

Thanks again

[PMario]

On Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 1:14:25 PM UTC+2, Mohamed Amin wrote:

Thanks PMario for your comment,

Actually the above were not a "real" values, just a way to present my issue, in real word I'm using True/False or Yes/No (but your suggestion "ok"/"nok" are very nice too) 

yes / no is also used by TW for several settings, because true / false ... seemed to be to "techy" ;) IMO yes and no are good! I just wanted to point out, that "terms" with no spaces are easier to handle.

-m

[Rob Hoelz]

Hi Mohamed,

I think an alternative would be the "Parameters as Variables" syntax described here - with that, your macro would look like this:

> \define getWithStatus(myStatus)
> <$set name="myStatus" value=<<__myStatus__>> >
> <$list filter="[all[tiddlers]field:status<myStatus>]">
>
> <<currentTiddler>>
> </$list>
> </$set>
>
> \end