Thank you @Evolena and @Matabele for pointing out the action widgets to me. I did not have time so far to check out 5.1.4, I am still living in 4.1.3!
I will have to wait for the ActionSetFieldWidget, or if I get too inpatient, I will try Matabeles Setfield Widget :-). All the best, Michael On Saturday, November 1, 2014 4:23:18 PM UTC+1, Matabele wrote: > > Hi > > I wrote a number of button widgets some time ago for the beta versions of > TW5 which address the problem you are having -- they may be found here: > http://gwiz.tiddlyspot.com/ > > Their functionality has largely been superseded with the new action > widgets -- especially once the forthcoming ActionSetfieldWidget widget of > version 5.1.5 is included. > > I have delayed updating my button widgets as I do not see any need to > duplicate the functionality now included with action widgets. Once I have > experimented with the action widgets, I might update and modify my widgets > to address any missing functionality and synchronise their mechanism with > action widgets. > > regards > > On Saturday, November 1, 2014 11:25:22 AM UTC+2, Michael wrote: >> >> Is there a way to assign several different actions to a button? >> >> Example: Clicking a button sets field value y to y1 but also sets field >> value x to x2 (would come very handy for self-made popups that close after >> use) >> >> Another example that I do not get to work: Create a new tiddler with >> title x, fields + values x, y, z plus tags x, y, z. I know that this is >> possible by using a template tiddler (essentially cloning the template), >> but if the template tiddler does not exist, an empty tiddler is created >> instead. >> >> These are two use cases that I cannot get to work! >> >> Thanks again for your help! >> Michael >> >> On Monday, June 30, 2014 4:07:22 PM UTC+2, Michael wrote: >>> >>> Thanks so much, Matabele and Stephan! You made my day! >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Michael >>> >>> >>> >>> On Monday, June 30, 2014 7:17:10 AM UTC+2, Matabele wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Michael >>>> >>>> I have written a set of widget plugins to enhance the functionality of >>>> buttons -- they may be found here: http://gwiz.tiddlyspot.com/ >>>> >>>> The example given for the <$maketid> widget sounds similar to your >>>> usage case, but there are a number of ways of achieving this -- have a >>>> look >>>> at the demos for ideas. >>>> >>>> Values from fields in the current tiddler may be accessed with the >>>> syntax: >>>> >>>> attribute={{!!field-name}} >>>> >>>> This syntax refers to the value of a field in the current tiddler -- to >>>> access the value of a field in another tiddler, use this syntax: >>>> >>>> attribute={{TiddlerTitle!!field-name}} >>>> >>>> regards >>>> >>>> On Monday, June 30, 2014 12:32:03 AM UTC+2, Michael wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi ruddb, Stephan, >>>>> >>>>> I seem to have a similar problem: I want to create a template with a >>>>> 'new tiddler' button. The value for param should come from a field in the >>>>> calling tiddler. I am not very experienced with the TW5 syntax, so in my >>>>> naiveté I tried param={!!field}, but this does not work. I also tried to >>>>> use Stephan Hradeks newtiddler plugin, using <$set> to set the values of >>>>> tags and fields in the new tiddler, but if I want to do that dynamically >>>>> using fields of the calling fiddler, I fail. >>>>> >>>>> How do you get it to work? >>>>> Michael >>>>> >>>>> On Friday, March 7, 2014 10:14:58 AM UTC+1, ruddb wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Stephan, >>>>>> >>>>>> Trying it now and it works great! I was a bit hesitant to use some >>>>>> plugins because of bad experience from D3 to TW5 migration so I want to >>>>>> try >>>>>> to use core functions. Do you now if this widget type will go to the >>>>>> official release? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks again. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Friday, March 7, 2014 12:33:10 PM UTC+7, Stephan Hradek wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Did you see http://tiddlystuff.tiddlyspot.com >>>>>>> Search for Newtiddler Widget. >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- 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 post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
