Definitely make backups before trying any of this! This code will make a copy of your tiddlers. Change the filter to match your criteria. The reason it makes a copy is because the title field is central to everything in TW, so when you try to change the field a copy is made. After you've made the copies, export your tiddlers based on the "." prefix.
<$button>Make . Tiddlers <$list filter="[tag[HelloThere]]"> <$list filter="[all[current]addprefix[.]]" variable="pre"> <$action-setfield $field="title" $value=<<pre>>/> </$list> </$list> </$button> Then, to clean up, delete the "dot" tiddlers with this: <$button>Delete . Tiddlers <$action-deletetiddler $filter="[all[tiddlers]prefix[.]]"/> </$button> Note that the dot tiddlers will no longer be linkable with each other (if they had links) and if they had a role as tag tiddlers that will be broken also. Oh yes. I'll say it again -- make backups! HTH -- Mar On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 3:00:36 PM UTC-7, JWHoneycutt wrote: > > I would like to import a large group of tiddlers into another wiki, but > can't guarantee there aren't a few with the same title, and I do not want > overwrites. > > So I simply want to change the title of every (nonsystem) tiddler in the > export file to add a prefix of "." (period) > > It sounds like it should be easy but I am not there yet. > > My best guess is: > 1) Use fieldmangler widget to add message field "title2" > 2) Use addprefix to add "." to "title" and place it into title2 > 3) Replace "title" with "title2" > > As always, any thoughts are appreciated > JWHoneycutt > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/2df4f934-f09a-426a-af79-a1d6e4211bac%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
