Displaying the caption instead of title in TW 5.2.1+ using the new cascade filters

[telumire]

CamelCase titles are useful for linking among other things, but it’s not pretty. Thanks to the new cascade filters, it is now very easy to display a “pretty text” instead of the title !

In a tiddler tagged with $:/tags/ViewTemplateTitleFilter and the field list-before set to $:/config/ViewTemplateTitleFilters/default :

[<currentTiddler>has[caption]then[$:/ui/ViewTemplate/title/useCaption]]

And in the tiddler $:/ui/ViewTemplate/title/useCaption :

\whitespace trim
<h2 class="tc-title">
<$view field="caption"></$view>
</h2>

That’s it !

Try it

• Caption instead of title without character formatting
• Caption instead of title with character formatting (thanks to Ant !)

[jeremyruston]

Great stuff @telumire

It should be possible to make the filter only kick in for tiddlers that have a caption field like this:

[<currentTiddler>has[caption]then[$:/ui/ViewTemplate/title/useCaption]]

The slight advantage is that the default template would still be used as expected, and so any overrides of that template would be respected.

[telumire]

@jeremyruston

The slight advantage is that the default template would still be used as expected, and so any overrides of that template would be respected.

I didn’t think about that, thanks !

[joshuafontany]

Edited the wiki post to include @jermonlene’s suggestion instead of the original [[$:/ui/ViewTemplate/title/useCaption]].

[Ant]

I’d like to update this thread and solutiuon as a result of my thread on field values and character formatting. After almost three weeks, I managed to get my head around suggestions made by @Springer (Field values and character formatting - #30 by Springer) and @Alvaro (Field values and character formatting - #31 by Alvaro). I’ve modified the .json file replacing $view with $transclude, to enable character formatting, and also updated the file to include the change suggested by @jeremyruston.

I’m not quite sure how to adjust the solution so I’m just including the .json file here with a slightly modified file name. I hope I’ve done this correctly.

Caption_instead_of_title_with_character_formatting.json (594 Bytes)

[telumire]

Note that I used the view widget and not the transclude widget for the sole reason to stay consistent with the default title behavior (see $:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/title/default), but I like your approach more ! I will update my post with your solution, thanks

I also updated my version to include Jeremy’s more elegant filter

[Ant]

Both approaches seem valid… the credit should really go to @Springer and @Alvaro - I just did a bit of typing!