Configuring TW's Editor

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Just to finish off this thread, I have followed up @EricShulman suggestion and have found to following.

A tiddler, titled Display caption instead of title (modified date 21 April 2022) whose content is

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The only other tiddler I can find is titled $:/ui/ViewTemplate/title/useCaption (modified date 21 April 2022) and whose content is

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The dates precedes any work on this TW but this TW was a duplicate of an earlier TW (I do this when the new TW has similarities to the current one, to not have to re-install plugins, workarounds, etc but this has obviously bitten me in the bum).

Looking at the title of the first, I would suspect that it is something that I must have created back in 2022, it does not seem to me like a title devised by TW developers. However, searching back through my posts, I can find no mention of this around 2022. Looking back through my TW notes wiki, I see a link to another discussion, Displaying the caption instead of title in TW 5.2.1+ using the new cascade filters, from 2021 which I must have seen before,

Anyway, this post and its discussions are improving my knowledge of TW and so I thank all involved for their patience and perseverance.

I will now go back into my hole and keep playing :slight_smile:

bobj

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So, now that you’ve found where you customized the title, the fix to your problem is as I suggested before:

In your custom $:/ui/ViewTemplate/title/useCaption definition, change this:

<$view field="caption"><$view field="title"/></$view>

to this:

<$transclude field="caption"><$view field="title"/></$transclude>

-e

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Thanks @EricShulman, you and the others who suggested avenues have been a great help. I am at the stage in TW of opening up the platform cementing it all together and it is confusion and a bit scary at the same time. As I described in another exchange, DeepWiki for Tiddlywiki is proving very useful here.

What I have learned from this is - documentation, documentation, documentation, especially when it comes for editing of shadow tiddlers. This change had completely slipped my mind, after all it happened three years ago, and I’m only an old man on drugs :-1:

I have now commenced a Developer tiddler $:/TLS/Developer through which I will document all such technical changes, hints, work arounds, etc, related to this particular TW. This will complement my Useful Stuff TW, which I started before and which contains useful snippets not just to the TW but to TW in general.

bobj

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Finally got it working the way I want. @EricShulman made the change from $view to $transclude as you suggested.

This is now the landing page for a gun

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and the caption field contents are {{{ [{!!State}addsuffix[ : ]addsuffix{!!CityTown}addsuffix[ - ]] [get[GunType]get[common]] +[join[ ]] }}}

If I change the GunType field to another value, the caption is automatically updated to the new label from that new gun type.

So propagation is automatic using just the normal TW editor.

Phew…..got there at last!

bobj

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That’s a good thing. … Some time ago I did create a step by step description, how to find out which shadow has been changed and what has been changed. HowTo Compare the Content of a Shadow Tiddler With the Content of an Overwritten Shadow

In post 4 @cskrisz even extended the diff view to show the fields that have been changed. That may be of interest for you.

You only need to keep a link in your “dev-docs” tiddler :wink:
-mario

PS: Once v5.4.0 is out, it may be even easier to find the code, that built your UI with my Devtools plugin, which has an option to open the corresponding source code of a UI element.

Feedback would be very welcome

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Thanks @pmario I will have a look at whaat you’ve done

Bobj