I have tiddlers hierarchically related to a parent tiddler through a field parent. Those tiddlers also have other content fields I will fill by opening them in edit mode. I would like to protect the parent field from manual edition. I also would like to distinguish such a system field from a c…

Might help https://tiddlywiki.com/#Customizing%20EditTemplate%20field%20rendering

[image] TartakOO: Is there naming conventions for that in TW community? Not that I am aware of and the possibilities changed in a recent release because more characters can now be used in fieldnames I think it a fair assumption that if you created fields with the $:confused: prefix that they…

There is no special prefix at the moment, but it is possible to create a setup, that you describe. In my examples I do use the prefix “x-” .. But you can change that to eg: “parent”. There is a new Field Editor Cascade that links to a tiddler Customizing EditTemplate field rendering .. The descri…

Thank you Mario! I got used to hide any field I don’t like to edit or do not want to allow user to edit it! But your solution is awesome as user can see the field and its value, but they cannot edit it!

[image] Mohammad: Thank you Mario! You are welcome. [image] Mohammad: I got used to hide any field I don’t like to edit or do not want to allow user to edit it! I did create the field-visibility plugin to be able to hide fields on demand. It works well with the field-editor plugin. .…

I did add this info to the Tips & Tricks section as a wiki. So everyone is able to improve it. [image] How to "protect" Fields in EditTemplate from Editing Tips & Tricks There is a new Field Editor Cascade that links to a tiddler Customizing EditTemplate fiel…

Is there a way to protect fields from manual edition? And a naming convention for such "system" fields?

pmario December 23, 2022, 5:50pm 7

I did add this info to the Tips & Tricks section as a wiki. So everyone is able to improve it.