[TW5] Have a Macro Insert the Value of a Tiddler as a Tag

[Taylor Jensen]

I have a tiddler named [[Current Show]], that has the text of something like "Romeo and Juliet". When I click on thew new journal button, I want the new tiddler to have a tag named "Romeo and Juliet". But won't change to something else if I modify it to be [[The Tempest]], that journal entry should still be tagged with "Romeo and Juliet".

I failed to find a way to accomplish this, and most of the things I tried led to awkward bits of code ending up as separate tags in the tiddler.

Anyone know how to do this? Thanks!

-TCJ

[Tobias Beer]

Hi Taylor,

See if you can follow these instructions
to build a custom "my new journal" button,
because that's apparently what you need:

Create Tiddler From Template @ tb5

Best wishes,

Tobias. 

[PMario]

Hi TCJ

If possible, you could change your workflow a little bit. eg:

 - create a tiddler named: CurrentShow and tag it: Romeo and Juliet
 - save and don't close it.
 - Use the: New Here button from the tiddler CurrentShow  (view) toolbar

IMO that produces the exact outcome, with a little change from your side. No TW modifications needed.

You can activate the new here button with the ControlPanel: Appearence: Toolbars: View Toolbar   settings

-m

[Taylor Jensen]

Unfortunately those instructions seem to only detail basic templating. The way I need my tiddlers created from a template to be tagged appear to be beyond the scope of that tutorial.

The problem is not changing a template, or the new journal button to do what I want, but making it so I can turn a transclusion or substitution into a tag for new tiddlers using that template.

[Taylor Jensen]

Hmm, this is technically a solution. Unfortunately it costs time and convenience. Two things we can't afford in the theater. I don't know when or where I may have to take a new note, so I'd have to find that tiddler and then start clicking. But it's not the worst idea. Sometimes no-tech solutions are the best, but I think the constraints I have to deal with unfortunately make this note one of those times. Thanks tho!

-TCJ

[Tobias Beer]

Hi Taylor,

Take a look at WidgetMessage: tm-new-tiddler.

Then, to have a button like the below become a toolbar button

marry that with the instructions at:

Create Tiddler From Template @ tb5

<$button>
<$action-sendmessage
$message="tm-new-tiddler"
title="Show Journal"
tags={{!!text}}
/>New Journal</$button>

For the full button candy, compare to the clone button:

$:/core/ui/Buttons/clone

Best wishes,

Tobias.

[Taylor Jensen]

Tobias,

This is really close. Much closer than I got.

It successfully adds all the text in tags, plural. Where there are spaces in the {{Tiddler!!text}} it separates in to a new tag. Is there a way around this? Putting it in quotes of course just adds {{tiddler!!text}} as a tag.

-TCJ

[Tobias Beer]

Hi Taylor,

Many ways be leading to Rome.

The easiest way to go about it would be to have
the content be a link rather than just text:

[[The Tempest]]

A more complicated way would be to use a button template like:

title: $:/_toolbar/new-show-journal

\define as-link() [[$(title)$]]

<$list filter="[all[current]!field:title[$:/_toolbar/new-show-journal]]">
<$vars title={{!!text}}>

<$button>
<$action-sendmessage
$message="tm-new-tiddler"
title="Show Journal"

tags=<<as-link>>
/>New Journal</$button>
</$vars>
</$list>

Best wishes,

Tobias.

[Taylor Jensen]

Tobias,

Perfect, having the content be a link works perfectly. Thanks so much!

-TCJ