Hello, How would I make the below solution work if my definition looked like this?
\define mymacro(index1:"{{!!title}}") I can substitute a hardcoded string (the same as the title) for $index1$ from your suggestion, but if I specify index1 to be {{!!title}} it doesn't seem to work. Thanks! On Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 8:51:46 PM UTC-7, Mark S. wrote: > > > > > You can't substitute the < > brackets in the middle of a string like that. > You can only substitute them inside a filter expression where a square > bracket would have occurred. But there is a trick to concatenating strings > in filters using the "addprefix" and "addsuffix" operators. So your filter > expression might look like this: > > "[[$:/.somewhere/]addsuffix<myvar>]" > > But there's a way you can skip "set" and "list" completely: > > \define mymacro(index1) > <$tiddler tiddler={{{ > [[tiddler1]getindex[$index1$]addprefix[$:/.somewhere/]] }}}> > {{||$:/.somewhere/templates/mytemplate}} > </$tiddler> > \end > > Remember to end your macro definitions with \end, BTW. > > > > On Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 8:12:12 PM UTC-7, The Islander wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> I can't seem to be able to figure out how to get this to work. Appreciate >> your help. >> >> >> >> \define mymacro(index1:"{{!!title}}") >> <$set name="myvar" tiddler="tiddler1" index=$index1$> >> <$list filter="[$:/.somewhere/<myvar>]">{{||$:/.somewhere/templates/ >> mytemplate}}</$list> >> </$set> >> \end >> >> >> >> >> Can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong. >> >> 1. I need to get a value from a data tiddler (tiddler1) with an index >> equal to the title field of the invoking tiddler (named index1 = >> {{!!title}}). >> 2. The result of first step = myvar. >> 3. I need to take the result and get a tiddler named $:/.somewhere/<myvar> >> 4. I need to display the resulting tiddler using a template named $: >> /.somewhere/templates/mytemplate >> >> The results don't seem to work. >> >> Appreciate your help! >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/4294ec32-13de-4ba6-993a-586c2a9c87aao%40googlegroups.com.