Open new-or-existing Tiddler, in View mode if new?

[David Szego]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a message or widget that will act like:

<$action-sendmessage $message='tm-new-tiddler' title="abc" field1="x" field2="y" />

but will open an existing Tiddler if the same title exists, merely setting the fields. Moreover, I'd like to open it in view mode, not edit.

Alternately, even if I overwrite an existing Tiddler, I could make do, but again opening it in View mode would be ideal.

Any thoughts? Is this best achieved by cloning some existing code and re-writing to suit?

Thanks,
David.

[PMario]

hi david
have a look here: http://tiddlywiki.com/#ActionWidgets:ActionWidgets%20ActionSetFieldWidget%20ActionNavigateWidget
-m

[David Szego]

Thanks, PMario. I'm missing something... If I use a message to create or navigate to a tiddler that doesn't exist, it opens a new tiddler called "New Tiddler...".

How do I change that behaviour to open it in view mode, as if I was done editing and had clicked the checkmark button?

Thanks,
David.

[PMario]

Hi David,

On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 12:31:08 AM UTC+1, David Szego wrote:

Thanks, PMario. I'm missing something... If I use a message to create or navigate to a tiddler that doesn't exist, it opens a new tiddler called "New Tiddler...".

use action-setfield and action-navigate  http://tiddlywiki.com/#ActionSetFieldWidget  see the examples here.

eg:

<$button>
<$action-setfield $tiddler="asdf" tags="NewTag [[Another New Tag]]" color="red"/>
<$action-navigate $to="asdf"/>
create / modify and open ~asdf
</$button>


send-message isn't flexible enough.

-m

[PMario]

<$action-setfield $tiddler="asdf" tags="NewTag [[Another New Tag]]" color="red"/>

color = "#df0000"

should work

[Matabele]

Hi

Have a look at the ActionMaketid plugin from here.

regards

[Tobias Beer]

@David,

Interesting. What would you be doing this for?

-tb