Getting the value of another Tiddler's field

[Richard Evans]

Hi,

This sounds straight forward, but I cannot get it to work and I cannot find any documentation for it.

I have a number of tiddlers with a user field 'status', this field can take a number of values: valueone, valuetwo, valuethree, etc.

I want to have a dashboard tiddler that shows the status of each of the monitored tiddlers in a table, thus:

|!State|!Research Area |
|getValue([[Birth Index]],"status")|[[Birth Index]]|
|getValue([[Birth Cert, "status")|[[Birth Cert]]|

I want the final result to be

| State           | Research Area |
-----------------------------------------
| valueOne    | Birth Index        |
| valueThree | Birth Cert          |

I want to be able to look at te status table, decided what to work on and that just click on the tiddler link in the last  column to get to the appropriate tiddler.

 Ciao Ric Evans

[Jed Carty]

Assuming you are using tiddlywiki5 (what is on tiddlywiki.com) than you just need to do this:

|!State|!Research Area |
|{{Birth Index!!status}}|[[Birth Index]]|
|{{Birth Cert!!status}}|[[Birth Cert]]|

some more stuff is here: http://tiddlywiki.com/#Transclusion%20and%20Substitution

[Richard Evans]

Thanks Jed that is exactly what I was looking for.