Hello,
With cascades, we have the opportunity to plus custom stuff almost anywhere. Thus, I would like to create specialized templates to edit my custom fields, ie a checkbox for a foss boolean field (for software tiddlers assessing if it is free and open source). This is useful, because I cannot always remember the values I use for booleans: true/false, yes/no, 1/0? And faster to fill of course.
First questions:
- does a plugin already exist?
- have you developed your solution?
- is it something you are looking for too?
How to know if a field need a special rendering? A straightforward solution could be based on the prefix or suffix of the field name (creation_date, is_foss), but I wanted a more generic one, so I made it explicit by creating tiddlers for my “defined fields” located in the folder $:/fdz/CustomField/Definition/. So the cascade filter condition is :[[$:/fdz/CustomField/Definition/]addsuffix<currentField>is[tiddler]then[...]]
Then I used the defined-field-tiddler’s fields to define the field:
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field_type: boolean, date, date-YYYY, selection… -
selection: list of allowed values range
The field_type leads to the rendering tiddler, ie $:/fdz/CustomField/Template/boolean
More questions:
- What do you think of the design?
- Could you help me with the css part for a smart integration with the current editor?