Drop Down Fields/Content Filtering

[Darth Mole]

Possibly a strange question.

I have a massive list of <option>organization type</option> as well as others lists. 

I found, and got, the following drop down field working with a Tiddler for the field itself, and then another tiddler with all the options, one a new line, and surrounded by the option code. I then transclude the tiddler with the list into the selection section of the field code:

https://tiddlywiki.com/#SelectWidget

However, by default it seems that no matter what, when a selection is made, it immediately writes to a new, or the current tiddler, and replaces everything with the chosen value.

Below is a snippet from a code provided to me in an earlier thread in order to generate a new Tiddler based on the values typed into the text fields.

\define temp() $:/temp/input/$(currentTiddler)$

\define tocscript()

<h1>$(storyname)$</h1>

<div class="tc-table-of-contents">

<<toc-selective-expandable "$(storyabbrev)$" "sort[title]">>

</div>

\end

|      Story Name*:|<$edit-text tiddler=<<temp>> field="storyname"/>    |

|   Story Abbreviation**:|<$edit-text tiddler=<<temp>> field="storyabbrev"/>  |

<$tiddler tiddler=<<temp>>>

<$button> Create Story

   <$vars storyabbrev={{!!storyabbrev}} storyname={{!!storyname}}>

   <$action-setfield $tiddler={{!!storyabbrev}} text=<<tocscript>> tags="Stories" />

   <$action-deletetiddler tiddler=<<temp>> />

   </$vars>

</$button>

</$tiddler>

My question is if there is a way to show a drop down field, with the options prepopulated, and have it act like the edit-text fields above vs overwriting the entire tiddler immediately with the selection?

Or is there another way to reference/pick from predefined content in the body of the tiddler while editing it? 

Thanks!

[Eric Shulman]

On Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 11:56:53 PM UTC-7 iamdar...@gmail.com wrote:

My question is if there is a way to show a drop down field, with the options prepopulated, and have it act like the edit-text fields above vs overwriting the entire tiddler immediately with the selection?

When you define your $select widget, you need to specify the tiddler=... and field=... parameters, just as you do with the $edit-text widget.

Otherwise, the $select widget defaults to changing the "text" field of the current tiddler.

Thus:

<$select tiddler=<<temp>> field="organization">{{OrgList}}</$select>

Where the "OrgList" tiddler's text field has content like this:

<option>Foo</option>

<option>Bar</option>

<option>Baz</option>

<option>Mumble Frotz</option>

<option>Gronk</option>

Alternatively, you can simplify the OrgList tiddler's contents by using a $select widget containing a <$list> widget, like this:

<$select tiddler=<<temp>> field="organization">

   <$list filter={{OrgList}} variable="org"><option><<org>></option></$list>

</$select>

Where OrgList contains just a white-space separated list of values, like this:

Foo Bar Baz [[Mumble Frotz]] Gronk

(note the use of doubled square brackets surrounding values that contain spaces)

As a third alternative, you could store the "OrgList" in a field of the current tiddler.  Thus:

<$select tiddler=<<temp>> field="organization">

   <$list filter={{!!orglist}} variable="org"><option><<org>></option></$list>

</$select>

where the "orglist" field value contains a white-space separated, bracketed list as shown above.

enjoy,

-e

[Darth Mole]

Thank you so much! Thank you, thank you, thank you!