Concatenating contents of multiple fields into one textfield

[odin...@gmail.com]

I am working on a little plugin that allows users to fill in a short reflection on the day. There are 3 questions and I am using an edit-text widget to provide for an input. The structure is like this:

!! I am grateful for...
<$edit-text> for the answer stored in a temp tiddler field
!! What would make today great?
<$edit-text> for the answer stored in a temp tiddler field 
!! Daily affirmation. I am...
<$edit-text> for the answer stored in a temp tiddler field   

Now I can use a viewtemplate to show this in the tiddler that is gets stored into, just like I did with my recipe plugin. But in this case I would like to Concatenate the questions and the answers into one text field so that users can later edit their journal entry. But I can't figure out how to.

I think the answer lies in either a macro or the vars widget (maybe both). But I am stuck and I am not understanding the documentation correctly.

So far I have this

\define sixminutejournal(grateful, great, affirmation) 

!!! I am grateful for:

$grateful$

!!! What would make today great?

$great$

!!! Daily affirmation. I am ...

$affirmation$

\end

And then calling the macro with inside the button that creates the tiddler:
    text=<<sixminutejournal grateful:{{$:/temp/odin/sixminutejournal!!sixminute-grateful}} great:{{$:/temp/odin/sixminutejournal!!sixminute-great}} affirmation:{{$:/temp/odin/sixminutejournal!!sixminute-affirmation}}>>

But this leads to:

!!! I am grateful for:

{{$:/temp/odin/sixminutejournal!!sixminute-grateful}}

!!! What would make today great?

{{$:/temp/odin/sixminutejournal!!sixminute-great}}

!!! Daily affirmation. I am ...

{{$:/temp/odin/sixminutejournal!!sixminute-affirmation}}


How do I get this to fill in the answers and paste it instead?

[TW Tones]

The approach you are using is valid; Using a macro and replaceable parameters, however

use the $macrocall widget for sixminutejournal then the parameters will accept {{transclusions}} or <<macros>>

The method you used is not valid, inside simple macro calls.

Regards

Tony

[odin...@gmail.com]

Thanks for the reply!

what would the correct syntax be in this case?

<$action-createtiddler

    $basetitle=<<newTitle>>

    tags="[[Six Minute Journal]]"

    text=<$macrocall $name="sixminutejournal" grateful={{$:/temp/odin/sixminutejournal!!sixminute-grateful}} great={{$:/temp/odin/sixminutejournal!!sixminute-great}} affirmation={{$:/temp/odin/sixminutejournal!!sixminute-affirmation}}>

    sixminute-time='21:00'

This doesn't work. I tried some options in which I incase it with ', or  ", or {{{ }}}. But I think I am not getting the syntax right. Or should I use a different widget in the first place?

Op woensdag 30 december 2020 om 23:49:45 UTC+1 schreef TW Tones:

[TW Tones]

See my comments inline

On Friday, 1 January 2021 at 02:57:33 UTC+11 Odin wrote:

Thanks for the reply!

what would the correct syntax be in this case?

<$action-createtiddler

    $basetitle=<<newTitle>>

    tags="[[Six Minute Journal]]"

    text=<$macrocall $name="sixminutejournal" grateful={{$:/temp/odin/sixminutejournal!!sixminute-grateful}} great={{$:/temp/odin/sixminutejournal!!sixminute-great}} affirmation={{$:/temp/odin/sixminutejournal!!sixminute-affirmation}}>

    sixminute-time='21:00'

• Should >  be /> ?
• Where is the end of the action widget />?
• Why cram macrocall inside the action widget, why not establish the value to use there with a variable before the action widget, you may have to wikify the result.

\define parameters()  grateful={{$:/temp/odin/sixminutejournal!!sixminute-grateful}} great={{$:/temp/odin/sixminutejournal!!sixminute-great}} affirmation={{$:/temp/odin/sixminutejournal!!sixminute-affirmation}}

<$wikify name=parameters text=<<parameters>> >

<!-- reuse same variable name -->

<$action-createtiddler

    $basetitle=<<newTitle>>

    tags="[[Six Minute Journal]]"

    text=<<parameters>>

    sixminute-time='21:00'

/>

 

[Pit.W.]

Odin,
it would be interesting to see the complete solution once you have assembled it. Could you publish it?

Pit

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[Odin]

@Pit,

Finally got it to a working state. This is what I got so far:  odinjorna.github.io/sixminutejournal/ 
How to try it out:
- Fill in the prompts in $:/plugins/odin/sixminutejournal/morninginput
- Go to the newly made tiddler via the 'recent' tab and open it
- It contains the questions and the answers you gave + a box with two more questions. After you fill these in and press the button, the box will disappear and the answers will be added to the text of the tiddler.

- When you open up the tiddler to edit, you can see it is just plain text. This makes it easier to edit your journal afterwards. 

Op woensdag 6 januari 2021 om 10:51:14 UTC+1 schreef Pit.W.: