New tiddler button - what's wrong with it?

[Jon]

Hi,

I have this to create a new tiddler from a button with the current date as the title:

\define newtags() [[log]]

<$wikify name="Title" text="""<<now "0DD/0MM/YY">>""">

<$button class="tc-btn-invisible">{{$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-tiddler}} 

<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" title=<<Title>> tags=<<newtags>> text=<<newtext>> />

   </$button>

It works fine but it also creates an unwanted draft tiddler as well.

Any ideas what's wrong with it?

Regards

Jon

[clutterstack]

Hi Jon, if you don't want the draft, perhaps the action-createtiddler widget is what you're looking for, rather than the tm-new-tiddler message?

Best,

Chris

[Jon]

Hi Chris, 

Thanks for that but I'm not sure how to incorporate it into the original - I've played around with it but can't get it to work. Could you spell it out for me?

Thanks

Jon

[TW Tones]

Jon

When you transclude  {{$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-tiddler}} you are acutely Transcluding the whole button, change this to {{$:/core/images/new-button}}

• Basically clicking on the button triggers both  $:/core/ui/Buttons/new-tiddler and  $message="tm-new-tiddler"
• This highlights how a button widget acts somewhat like "on click"
• ActionCreateTiddlerWidget can create tiddlers without navigating to them (in fact you need to navigate to them) and has more control than   $message="tm-new-tiddler"
  

However why not use the new Journal here button? 

{{||$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-journal-here}} 

You can change the title format, default content and tags in Control Panel > info > Basics

• Title of new journal tiddlers
  
• Text for new journal tiddlers
  
• Tags for new journal tiddlers
  

Regards

Tones

[Jon]

Hi Tones,

I just changed  {{$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-tiddler}}  to {{$:/core/images/new-button}} in my original as you suggested and it worked - thanks!

I think I didn't use the new Journal here button because I was thinking I already have that for the journal and I wanted to be able to created new tiddlers with different tags and text

Thanks again

Jon

[Jon]

p.s. thanks for the explanation as well

[Jon]

Actually, not having to navigate to the tiddler would be useful. How do I incorporate  the  ActionCreateTiddlerWidget so as to produce the tiddler title as today's date and a tag?

I've looked at the docs but can't quite see how to do it.

Regards

Jon

[Brian Radspinner]

Jon, give this a try...

\define newTidAction()
<$action-createtiddler
   $basetitle=<<now "0DD/0MM/YY">>
   tags="log"
   text=<<newtext>>
/>
\end
<$button actions=<<newTidAction>> class="tc-btn-invisible">{{$:/core/images/new-button}}</$button>

If you don't have a variable for the text field, you can leave it blank

   text=""

or leave the line out all together

[Jon]

Many thanks Brian!

Regards

Jon