[tw5] Re: Problems getting $action-createtiddler to populate variable via SaveTitle

2019-07-21 Thread Watt
Congratulations, you've discovered state tiddlers. It took me years to discover state tiddlers. Careful or they'll ask you to write the documentation. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receivi

[tw5] Re: Problems getting $action-createtiddler to populate variable via SaveTitle

2019-07-21 Thread MagoArcade
Ha. I have no idea! It's just what dropped out of the bottom of 2 hours of fishing around and trial and error! It did also solve my original problem too around storing the final used name into a field. Using one of the the same 'dummy' tiddler's fields to store it and read it back again did the

[tw5] Re: Problems getting $action-createtiddler to populate variable via SaveTitle

2019-07-21 Thread Watt
Nice! A lot more concise. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe your optaskstore is a nice example of a state tiddler. https://tiddlywiki.com/#StateMechanism Good luck with the project. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsu

[tw5] Re: Problems getting $action-createtiddler to populate variable via SaveTitle

2019-07-21 Thread MagoArcade
Thanks Watt. In the end I went for another approach, leveraging a single, temporary tiddler; populating all fields from action-createtiddler (avoiding all that clumsy action-navigate stuff) and seems to work OK: !Add Task -- Task Name: <$edit-text tiddler="$:/_opTaskStore" field="tas