[TW5] Q: Passing transcluded field of a variable tiddler as value to ActionSetFieldWidget

[hobbyist writer]

Hi

I need to copy the text field of a tiddler into a specific field of another tiddler. The tiddler titles are not known beforehand, because they are temporarily created and deleted on-demand with almost arbitrary (time-stamped) titles. So their names are passed by variables through SetWidget.

<$button>
COPY
<$action-setfield $tiddler=<<TiddlerA>> $field="text" $value={{<<TiddlerB>>!!refs}}/>
</$button>


The code above generates an empty filed refs in TiddlerB. When I wrap the transclusion in a macro like {{$(TiddlerB)$!!refs}}, what I see is the text {{actualNameOfTiddlerB!!refs}} in the refs filed of TiddlerB.

Your help will be much appreciated.


Mehdi

[Jed Carty]

One way to do this is using the tiddler widget like this:

<$tiddler tiddler=<<TiddlerB>>>
<$button>
COPY
<$action-setfield $tiddler=<<TiddlerA>> $field="text" $value={{!!refs}}/>
</$button>
</$tiddler>

This may be able to be done using variables and macros, but the tiddler widget is a much simpler fix in this case.

[hobbyist writer]

<$tiddler tiddler=<<TiddlerB>>>
<$button>
COPY
<$action-setfield $tiddler=<<TiddlerA>> $field="text" $value={{!!refs}}/>
</$button>
</$tiddler>

It works. Thanks a lot, Jed.

Meanwhile I encountered another issue. I'm not sure if I have to open another post. Anyway, I just go ahead and ask here first.

I would like to prepped the text field of TiddlerX to the text field of <<TiddlerB>> and then append the text field of TiddlerY to the text field of <<TiddlerB>>. All of this happens programmatically from within another (a fourth) tiddler.

Do you happen to know the answer to this?