Hi tdymon,
I think this topic might be what you need.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/tiddlywiki/EditTemplate$2Fdrop-fields%7Csort:relevance/tiddlywiki/1eVLcslhmLM/CognfvIZIysJ
J Mc
On Wednesday, 15 March 2017 07:04:33 UTC, tdymon...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I'm a long time user of classic TiddlyWiki, but am new to TW5. I'm trying
> to create buttons for different journal types, e.g., personal, fitness,
> food. I've used the existing documentation I could find on tiddlywiki.com
> and this forum to successfully create the button that creates the new
> journal tiddler with the title I want, which is a journal type specific
> prefix to the current date and time, and tags. The generated tiddlers are
> automatically opened for editing.
>
> I'm having a bit of difficulty adding custom fields to the button
> generated new tiddlers. What i'm wanting is for the custom fields to
> appear, along with their pre-assigned values, in the newly generated
> tiddlers that are open for editing. I don't want to have to add the custom
> fields and values manually after creation or saving. In other words, to
> create an entry in the journal I only want to have to hit the New Journal
> button (for the desired journal type), type the text of the entry and hit
> save without having to do anything else.
>
> For instance:
>
> Title: Fitness-YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
> Tags: Journal, Additional Tags...
> Text: empty
>
> Which is working at this point. But I also want custom user fields:
>
> journal-type: (E.G., personal, fitness,
> journal-part: (E.G., segment, entry)
> year: 2017
> month: 03
> day: 14
>
> Which I can't figure out how to do.
>
> I've tried using the $fieldmangler and action-setfield within the button
> code, to no effect. It doesn't add any fields the the newly created and
> opened for editing tiddler.
>
> I've spent hours on this forum searching for an answer, as well as a lot
> of additional hours on Google searching, but to no avail. Any help or
> directions to help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Ultimately, my goal is to use the custom fields to automatically add the
> entries of the journals into the TOC, which I'm doing now with tags, with a
> hierarchy of journal type, year, month and day, in order to alleviate the
> amount of bloat to my tags. However, for right now, I'll just be happy to
> get the code for the new journal buttons working correctly.
>
> Below is the current code for the button: The title of this tiddler is
> $:/me/Buttons/NewFitness and it is tagged $:/tags/PageControls
>
> \define journalButton()
> <$fieldmangler>
> <$button tooltip={{$:/me/language/Buttons/NewFitness/Caption}}
> aria-label={{$:/me/language/Buttons/NewFitness/Caption}}
> class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>
> <$action-setfield journal-type="fitness" journal-part="segment"/>
> <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" title=<<now
> "DEL-$(journalTitleTemplate)$">> tags="$(journalTags)$"/>
> <$list filter="[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]">
> {{$:/core/images/new-journal-button}}
> </$list>
> <$list filter="[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]">
> <span class="tc-btn-text"><$text
> text={{$:/me/language/Buttons/Fitness/Caption}}/></span>
> </$list>
> </$button>
> </$fieldmangler>
> \end
> <$set name="journalTitleTemplate" value={{$:/config/NewJournal/Title}}>
> <$set name="journalTags" value="Journal">
> <<journalButton>>
> </$set></$set>
>
> The only part of this that doesn't work is adding the custom fields to a
> newly created tiddler. Thank you in advance for your help.
>
>
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