Hi @TiddlyTweeter,
that’s a brilliant Idea! I’ll create such a macro soon
Best wishes,
Simon
I just saw that in beta v77.0 @BurningTreeC significantly added to “Ensemble” saving.
Now you can save all opened Tiddlers (by “column-river”); Style customisations; Headers and Footers; and Page Templates & re-activate them on a single click.
Genius!
TT
I also saw it just now. But is it functional now. I removed the $:/tags/TopToolbar from $:/plugins/BTC/multi-column-github-toolbar/ui/TopToolBar
Then I created an ensemble with [[$:/plugins/BTC/multi-column-github-toolbar/ui/TopToolBar]] in the field for tiddlers to get $:/tags/TopToolbar tag when the ensemble is loaded.
But it was not working. Did you got it working?
Dunno. I have not tested it yet.
@BurningTreeC hasn’t actually publicly published it yet so it might still be “in process”?
I may have “jumped the gun” too early! 
I have no concern whether it will work. It will.
I simply wanted to highlight how brilliant MCL is.
Best, TT
I wasn’t complaining. I was just trying to check it out before I go to sleep.
Definitely @BurningTreeC is doing an amazing work.
Ensemble alone will give soo much more options and new ideas will develop around it.
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I am using this filter [<now "DDth MMM YYYY">is[tiddler]] :else[default-tiddler[yes]] for Default Tiddlers in Info section of the control panel. This will show the Journal tiddler for that particular day as default tiddler if it’s already created , otherwise it will show the tiddlers based on the else filter.
In multicolumn, the tiddlers in the storyriver when we create an ensemble will be the Default Tiddlers in that ensemble when its reloaded. My question is that, can we manually set separate Default Tiddlers for each ensembles.
Specifically in a ensemble called Journal, I want the Journal tiddler of that particular day to be shown. Is it possible to add a filter like this [<now "DDth MMM YYYY">is[tiddler]] :else[default-tiddler[yes]]while we create an ensemble to get the corresponding Journal tiddler as the default tiddler in that ensemble.
From my testing with multicolumn, it’s seen that on pressing the Home button, the Default Tiddlers are loaded in the first column irrespective of the number of columns. Can we manually set the column number in which the Default Tiddlers should open - this might not be possible I guess. Just asking.
Hi @arunnbabu81
The way the empty-story message is implemented at the moment may change
Basically, a tiddler gets transcluded that has the title $:/EmptyMessage-<columnNumber>
Best wishes,
Simon
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Comment On Ensembles #2: Persist Current Values In Inputs After Save?
Ciao @BurningTreeC
I’m not wanting to give you headaches!!!
Though I hope this makes sense!
One thing I was looking at is what happens when I save an ensemble.
Once it is saved you lose visual feedback on what you saved.
For my kind of usage it would help to keep the input values showing in the Ensemble saver even after save?
Why? So I can see what I have done.
For example IF this could persist, even after save until a different ensemble was loaded …
Hope this is clear.
Just a comment on this Domenica.
TT
UPDATE: I guess another, likely easier?, way would be to simply provide a link to the current Ensemble Tiddler when an Ensemble is loaded?
UPDATE 2: “Inspect your Ensembles at …” <<tree "$:/Story/">> gives, for instance …
You get the idea? Some way to know where you are and what you are doing?
Just comments, TT
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Comment On Naming #1: We call it “MCL” – but is also “MRL”
Ciao @BurningTreeC
As I’m working with MultiColumn Layout (MCL) and trying to document parts of it I suddenly realised that in TW terms it is a MultiRiver Layout (MRL)! 
I am amazed at how each Column/River can be used as-if it were an independent wiki river itself!
For instance every column can independently import Tiddlers.
In docs I will try and make this more explicit as I think it is radically useful to be clear about!
JUST a comment
TT
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It seem to be working now. Krystal is working fine in an ensemble of my MCL wiki
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Don’t suppose you have a link for that?
Here is a demo
https://multicolumn-krystal.tiddlyhost.com/
There is a bug where the some of the tiddler contents are not seen at all (tiddler goes totally blank with even the buttons not visible). I have seen this bug in Krsytal before also. Have to report it in krystal github repo. If anyone has a solution of it, please share.
Sorry to say that on both FF & Chrome on Windows 10 I currently get RSODs …
… on FF …
… on Chrome …
TT
I guess here the error is shown because the header is not displayed…
It is requested in the .js .
I have a tiny hidden instance but it would be best to remove the line it from the js … perhaps this is even the cause of the second bug
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I have seen this bug …But it was occuring randomly …so couldn’t find why it’s happening. Don’t know whether it’s related to some of the plug ins I was using… Will have to do some more testing.
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As I said in the post above yours:
I have craeted an github issue in the krystal repo regarding this. Let crazko also respond. I will make the change after that.
I kept testing within TiddlyDesktop and didn’t find any problems, except for one thing that is odd: in TD both the vertical and horizontal scrolling (while navigating tiddlers with keyboard shortcuts) is much slower than it is in Firefox and the setting “scroll duration in x-direction” (within the plugin’s own settings) doesn’t seem to do anything. TW’s own animation duration setting isn’t related to this I think, I tried and it made no change in this.
(Even an option where one could turn off this scrolling animation altogether would be great in case it’s difficult to solve to give control over the duration to the user in numbers - because the slightly jarring nature of jumping instantly could be preferable to the current somewhat slowness in TD. [In my case it’s all I’d need, because I prefer it to be 0ms and just jump, but in general most people like to have a little ease I guess])
One possible improvement for the plugin would be to increase the utility of the search function by incorporating keyboard navigation up and down, and upon selecting an item from the list (either by enter or mouse click) it’d close the search “layout” (where it isolated the searched for tiddler[s]) and jump to, and focus on the selected tiddler.
I apologize if any of these two were mentioned already, this thread is a quite long and I didn’t find either by searching in it.
One other little thing I noticed and it’s probably not something that could be solved within this plugin is that with the commandpalette plugin if I open a new tiddler it always opens tiddlers in the first column and doesn’t select them to be the currently active/highlighted tiddler, it only jumps to them to show them on screen but the selected tiddler remains the one that was selected before the search. The normal search box seems to be working wonderfully and the new tiddler gets the focus as it should (but I prefer to use command palette). Am I correct to assume that there should be a change in the command palette plugin to make it work with your multi-column layout? (this is something that happens both in TD and Firefox) (other commands with that plugin like “close all tiddlers” etc. also only effect the first column, regardless of what column is selected.)
Let me know if I should write these on github instead, if that is better I’ll do it over there.
Thank you again for your amazing work,
Adam
Ciao @BurningTreeC
I wanted update you that I am working on some documentation I hope will help you convey how good MCL is.
I need a few more days as it is not so easy to fully explain what MCL does.
It has been interesting to try document it as, doing that, you realise how rich it is.
Your brain is clever!
I’ll comment more later.
TT