How do I make a clone button which creates tiddlers silently?

[Måns]

Hi TwWizards

How do I make a clone button which creates tiddlers silently?

As I understand I have to use the action-setfield widget and not the tm-new-tiddler widget message to be able to generate/edit tiddlers without having to open them....

I'd like to be able to do both:

1) Silently create tiddlers with new titles based on the first (current) tiddler's title (not a clone)

2) Silently create multiple clones of the current tiddler with new titles based on the first (current) tiddler's title.

Is this already possible?

Cheers Måns Mårtensson

[Mat]

Just a chime in that I'd like to know too (for the FastNewTiddler project)

<:-)

[c pa]

This works:

\define setfield(tiddlerName,templateName,fieldName)
    <$set name="fieldValue" value={{$templateName$!!$fieldName$}} >
        <$action-setfield $tiddler="$tiddlerName$" $field="$fieldName$" $value=<<fieldValue>> />
    </$set>
\end
\define createSilentTarget(tiddlerName,templateName,buttonName)
    <!-- This macro displays a button that clones a template
           All fields and content are copied from the template silently
    -->
   <$button> $buttonName$
        <$action-setfield $tiddler="$tiddlerName$" $field="title" $value="$tiddlerName$" />
        <$list filter="[[$templateName$]fields[]] -created -modified -title" >
            <<currentTiddler>><br/>
            <$macrocall $name="setfield"
                tiddlerName="$tiddlerName$"
                templateName="$templateName$"
                fieldName=<<currentTiddler>>
            />
        </$list>
    </$button>
\end

<$macrocall $name="createSilentTarget"
    tiddlerName="MyNewTiddler"
    templateName="testTemplate"
    buttonName="testButton" />
[[MyNewTiddler]]

[Måns]

Hi c pa

Thank you very much - however I can't see how your code will let me create a new tiddler title every time I click the testButton?

>1) Silently create tiddlers with new titles based on the first (current) tiddler's title (not a clone)

>2) Silently create multiple clones of the current tiddler with new titles based on the first (current) tiddler's title.

I'm aware of (some of) the capabilities of the action-setfield widget > I do not know how to make it create a new title eg: [[MyNewTiddler 1]] if [[MyNewTiddler]] already exists.

This happens automagically with the clone tiddler button - it uses a tm-newtidder widget message, not the action-setfield widget....

Is there some (hidden magic) scripting in the tm-newtiddler widget that can't be used with the action-setfield widget?

See $:/core/ui/Buttons/clone 

Cheers Måns Mårtensson

[Danielo Rodríguez]

I made the same question some time ago. I ended up creating a small javascript macro for it and a pull request to the core. The pull request was to allow prefixes like zeroes and spaces. I can share that macro if you are interested

[Danielo Rodríguez]

Just to be clear, the only thing the macro does is returning a new unique name, if I remember well my own ideas...

[Måns]

Hi Danielo

Yes please :-)

Do you think I can combine it with  an action-setfield widget message to silently create a new tiddler with a unique title based on the current tiddler title every time I click the button? eg. New tiddler 1, New tiddler 2 etc ...

Cheers Måns Mårtensson

[Matabele]

Hi Mans

Perhaps this meets your needs?

regards

[Måns]

Hi Matabele

Great :-) Thank you very much!!

 EDIT: Sorry... I was to quick ... It didn't suppress opening the clone for editing anyway....

I simply pasted the code from the clone button into your maketid widget - and it just works :-)

<$maketid edit="no"><$button message="tm-new-tiddler" param=<<currentTiddler>> tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Clone/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Clone/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>

<$list filter="[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]">

{{$:/core/images/clone-button}}

</$list>

<$list filter="[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]">

<span class="tc-btn-text"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Clone/Caption}}/></span>

</$list></$button></$maketid>

To me it seems that the parameter you've added:

>edit="yes" (default) opens the tiddler for editing – edit="show" navigates to but does not open the tiddler – edit="no" suppresses navigation

should be implemented as an option for the tm-new-tiddler widget @Jeremy?

Cheers Måns Mårtensson

EDIT: Sorry... I was to quick ... It didn't suppress opening the clone for editing anyway....

[Måns]

 EDIT: Sorry... I was to quick ... It didn't suppress opening the clone for editing anyway....

[Danielo Rodríguez]

Hello Mans,

If you have adopted Matabelle's solution I think you should stick to it. My macro is just a "patch"

El jueves, 7 de mayo de 2015, 8:44:13 (UTC+2), Måns escribió:

Hi Matabele

Great :-) Thank you very much!!

I simply pasted the code from the clone button into your maketid widget - and it just works :-)

<$maketid edit="no"><$button message="tm-new-tiddler" param=<<currentTiddler>> tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Clone/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Clone/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>

<$list filter="[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]">

{{$:/core/images/clone-button}}

</$list>

<$list filter="[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]">

<span class="tc-btn-text"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Clone/Caption}}/></span>

</$list></$button></$maketid>

To me it seems that the parameter you've added:

>edit="yes" (default) opens the tiddler for editing – edit="show" navigates to but does not open the tiddler – edit="no" suppresses navigation

should be implemented as an option for the tm-new-tiddler widget @Jeremy?

Cheers Måns Mårtensson

[Måns]

Hi Matabele

I edited your MakeTid widget:

Changed all "tw-" labels to "tm-labels" .... Now it seems to almost work as I hoped....

I still have some problems with new titles (it creates tiddlers titled "NewTiddler" (not current tiddler title) and adds 1, 2, 3 to it...

Cheers Måns Mårtensson

[Måns]

Hi again

Now I made it work :-)

http://xn--mns-ula.dk/kinabog/ 

The trick was to "inject" the current tiddler title - and tags into the
maketid widget's attribute values and set the current tiddler as the template...

Cheers Måns Mårtensson

Edit: It's quite a mess to look at atm - sorry - I will clean it up when I get a little more time...

[Måns]

Tip: Scroll to the top of the story river to see it in action... ("skjul" means "hide", "vis" means "show" - "ny" means "new"...

[Måns]

Thanks Danielo :-)

[Matabele]

Hi Mans

I will get around to updating my widgets for the more recent versions of TW sometime soon -- they were built for the old version and will need various code tweaks. Don't know why the $maketid widget isn't picking up the title specified in the parameters -- it was designed to do so.

regards

[Måns]

Hi Matabele

 

Don't know why the $maketid widget isn't picking up the title specified in the parameters -- it was designed to do so.

It did - it was just me. I tried to use your maketid widget with no attributes set and  the core clone button which have: "param=<<currenTiddler>>" and hoped that it would work like that... Of course it didn't :-)

Now that I use maketid's attributes it works exactly how I hoped it would :-)

Thanks a lot!

Here's a cleaner version of what I did: http://kinabog.tiddlyspot.com/

Edit: The macro in which I use the maketid widget is: 

• $:/plugins/måns/wikinote/NoteTiddlerMakro

Cheers Måns Mårtensson