Using a drop-down menu to set a variable or field value?

[Richard Smith]

I am trying to make a wiki that allows the user to create multiple tiddlers according to a template and then be able to edit their fields from a common interface.

Originally I was planning to have one editor for each tiddler but, as jeremy suggested here, I am now trying to implement one editor to edit all of them.

What I can't work out how to do today is set the value of either a variable or a field value so as to select which tiddler will be edited. Ideally I would like a dropdown which allows me select the tiddler from a list of all those with a particular tag.

Is that possible?

(I promise I've tried searching, but I can't even figure out how to make a drop-down. I think I might be experiencing 'the dumbening')

[Stephan Hradek]

http://tiddlywiki.com/#SelectWidget

Attribute	Description
tiddler	The title of the tiddler containing the value to be displayed/modified by the select widget (defaults to the current tiddler)
field	The field name for the value in the current tiddler (defaults to "text")
index	The index of a property in a DataTiddler (takes precedence over the field attribute)
class	CSS classes to be assigned to the HTML select element
default	Default value to be used if the tiddler, field or index specifies a missing value

So: <$select field="myfield"…>

[Richard Smith]

Thank you Stephan,

I have a documentation suggestion based on this. This is not a complaint.

The Tiddler http://tiddlywiki.com/#:SelectWidget explains how to make drop-down menus but contains neither the word 'menu' nor the word 'drop'. 

I should probably have known to go through the list of widgets but I think that most people feel that, if they've exhausted a list of reasonable search terms, the information isn't there.

Perhaps there is a way to add specific search-terms to tiddlers so that they show up in relevant searches. Could they even be given a priority so that the most relevant tiddlers appear first?

Just a thought.

Regards,

Richard

[Stephan Hradek]

Hi Richard!

I agree with you and this is a symptom of the fact that the documentation is mainly written by "programmers" and not by "users".

Why not head over to github and fix the documentation? Change it to what you think would be best for users like you.

[PMario]

There is the info, how to improve the docs. We try to make it easy but the barrier seems to be very high :)
The link contains 3 videos, that should show, how to user the github web UI

http://tiddlywiki.com/#Improving%20TiddlyWiki%20Documentation

Also feedback for the process is very welcome :)

have fun!
mario

[Jeremy Ruston]

I've made some adjustments to the SelectWidget documentation:

http://tiddlywiki.com/#SelectWidget

Best wishes

Jeremy.

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