[TW5] Transclusion problem

[Kurt Kincaid]

I think (hope?) that this is an easy issue that I am just missing.

I am relatively new to TW5 (I was an old school user of pre-TW5), and I am having a problem with transclusion. I have a button to create a new tiddler, and I want to insert the current user from $:/status/UserName into a field in the new tiddler called "proj_owner". I tried simply including the content of the $:/status/UserName tiddler like this:

<$set name="proj_owner" value={{$:/status/UserName}}>

However, the new tiddler contains "{{$:/status/UserName}}" in the proj_owner field, rather that the actual value. I even tried creating a macro to see if that would help me:

\define whoami(who:{{$:/status/UserName}}) $who$

And then modifying the $set code like this:

<$set name="proj_owner" value=<<whoami>>>

But that yields the same result. I have been driving myself crazy with different permutations to figure this out, but it keeps eluding me. Any pointers or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Kurt

[Andreas Hahn]

Hi Kurt,

can you post the full code involved in creating the new tiddler ? As far as I can tell

<$set name="proj_owner" value={{$:/status/UserName}}>
<<proj_owner>>
</$set>

correctly sets the proj_owner variable to the username, whereas your macro approach does not (the result of the macro is not treated as WikiText).

/Andreas

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[Kurt Kincaid]

Hi, Andreas.

Your post actually gave me just the right nudge to figure out the problem. Here is the code that ended up working. I am using Skeeve's newtiddler plugin.

<$set name="proj_owner" value={{$:/status/UserName}}>

<$set name="proj_start_date" value=<<now YYYY-0MM-0DD>>>
<$newtiddler title="New Project" skeleton="$:/plugins/kurt/projects/template/project">New Project</$newtiddler>
</$set></$set>

Then in my project template, I have proj_owner and proj_start_date fields set to $(proj_owner)$ and $(proj_start_date)$, respectively.

To be honest, I still am not 100% sure what I was doing wrong. I would have sworn I tried the above approach, but apparently not. At any rate, it works now, so I am happy.

Thanks for your help.

--Kurt