> > A key use case for Evaluate Wiki text and store the result as literal text
To clarify that that is precisely what the wikify widget does at the moment. I understand that there’s confusion around its usage, but I’m finding this thread hard to follow because it is structured as a vague proposal for something new, rather than an exploration to understand what we already have. It feels like a lot of work: to deal with this thread I have to try to both explain how the wikify widget works, and also explain the problems with the proposal that is being made, and the misapprehensions around it, which requires me to understand the proposal, which is tricky because it’s so vague. Perhaps it would be better to pick up the suggestion of focusing the discussion on improving the documentation and examples of the wikify widget. I think we need to get to the point where the participants in this discussion all understand what we’ve got before we consider changing it. Best wishes Jeremy > > Is to use the templates such as > > $:/core/templates/exporters/JsonFile > To generate a result and be able to save this as evaluated into a tiddler. > It would then be easy to pack tiddlers into a JSON tiddler with a filter, > Or let uses drag and drop the JSON to their own wiki. > and reimport/extract them again later. > > Other such that generate static HTML and more will provide some nice options. > > Regards > Tony > > > On Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 7:58:52 AM UTC+10, TonyM wrote: > Folks, > > As my tiddlywiki familularity grows and I contribute to support people in the > forum the issue of "Evaluating Wiki text and storing the result as literal > text" continues to be an issue. > > That is taking text references (to tiddlers text or other fields) or > variables or macro results and returning the actual values rather than > deferring this until the tiddler is rendered into html. We also need to do > this with the result of various widgets including the list widget that > generates multiple line outputs. > > Please share if you have any elegant ways to do this, or the only ways you > know how to do this, however I think this need is what drives the misuse of > the wikify Widget, and confusion on the part of new and experienced users. > > The macro definitions and various widgets available seem to have different > subtleties and as a result there is no simple way to communicate how to do > this. > > With your suggestions I would like to do one or more of the following; > Support users more effectively > Improve the documentation > Provide a supporting macro > Suggest a solution (if applicable) > Potentially request a new widget > Your contribution would be highly desired. > > Regards > Tony > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWikiDev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/1e62e5c5-af44-4f48-a61c-fed15f79228e%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/1e62e5c5-af44-4f48-a61c-fed15f79228e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/43A0BCEE-24B5-4CC9-8E82-DEAB2BF76703%40gmail.com.
