Problem with a button operation

JuanPalomo · August 5, 2022, 7:52am

Hello everyone.
I’m trying to adapt a macro I found on a wiki to suit my needs but I can’t get it to work. It is a button that creates a tiddler with some predefined fields.
The button code is:

<$button actions={{$:/xp/ui/Actions/new-people}} tooltip="Create a new people" aria-label="new people" class="tc-btn-invisible tc-btn-mini">
<span class="tc-btn-icon">{{$:/core/images/new-button}}</span> new people
</$button>&emsp;<small class="tc-sidebar-header">(<i><$count filter='[tag<aggregationTag>!has[draft.of]]'/> tiddlers</i>)</small>&emsp;<$button to="$:/people-help" tooltip="PEOPLE Help" class="tc-btn-invisible tc-btn-mini">
<span class="tc-btn-icon">{{$:/core/images/help}}</span>
</$button>
</div>

The content of the tiddler $:/xp/ui/Actions/new-people that I replace with mine is as follows:

\define get-tags() $(textFieldTags)$
\define get-text() $(textField)$
<$vars textFieldTags={{$:/config/new-people/Tags}} textField={{$:/config/new-people/Text}}>
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" title=<<now "people-YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm0ssXXX">> tags=<<get-tags>> text=<<get-text>> caption="a people" color="" description="" education="" lifetime="" image=""/>
</$vars>

This is the model ($:/model/person-2) that I try to make the button execute but I can’t get it to do so:

\define createNewItem()
  <$action-sendmessage 
    $message="tm-new-tiddler" 
    title=<<unusedtitle """New $(new-item-title)$""">> 
    tags="[[$(currentTiddler)$]]" 
    foto="$:/plugins/kookma/thinkup/images/mr_avatar"
    caption="name and title"
    text=<<content>>
    keywords=""
	nombre=""
	direccion=""
	localidad=""
	fecha_nac=""
	telefono_f=""
    />
\end


\define content()

<$macrocall $name=image-pretty img={{!!foto}} align="right" caption={{!!caption}} tooltip={{!!caption}} alt=""/>

<table class="table-borderless source">
<tr><th>Nombre</th><td>{{!!nombre}}</td></tr>
<tr><th>Dirección</th><td>{{!!direccion}}</td></tr>
<tr><th>Localidad</th><td>{{!!localidad}}</td></tr>
</table>

: <<.lorem>>

;Observaciones
: <<.lorem>>

\end

I’ve been doing several tests but I can’t get it to work. Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong, or what I have to change?

Thanks in advance.

JuanPalomo · August 5, 2022, 7:56am

What I have done so far is change $:/xp/ui/Actions/new-people to $:/model/person-2, I have also tried to remove some parameters from the macro but it hasn’t worked…

Mohammad · August 5, 2022, 9:13am

You have imbalanced <div> here!

The $button works for me! What do you want to achieve?

JuanPalomo · August 5, 2022, 10:22am

Hi Hohammad.

Yes, when copying the button code I missed the </div>.

The code that I use and that does not work for me is this:

<$button actions={{$:/model/person-2}} tooltip="Create a new people" aria-label="new people" class="tc-btn-invisible tc-btn-mini">
<span class="tc-btn-icon">{{$:/core/images/new-button}}</span> new people
</$button>&emsp;<small class="tc-sidebar-header">(<i><$count filter='[tag<aggregationTag>!has[draft.of]]'/> tiddlers</i>)</small>&emsp;<$button to="$:/people-help" tooltip="PEOPLE Help" class="tc-btn-invisible tc-btn-mini">
<span class="tc-btn-icon">{{$:/core/images/help}}</span>
</$button>

I’ve tried it on another wiki and it doesn’t work for me either. However if I change $:/model/person-2 to $:/xp/ui/Actions/new-people it works and I don’t know why.

Yaisog · August 5, 2022, 10:41am

Hello Juan,
I think in $:/model/person-2 you merely define two macros, but nowhere call the createNewItem macro. You could just call the $action-sendmessage directly without wrapping it in a macro. Your $:/model/person-2 then would look like this:

\define content()
<$macrocall $name=image-pretty img={{!!foto}} align="right" caption={{!!caption}} tooltip={{!!caption}} alt=""/>
<table class="table-borderless source">
<tr><th>Nombre</th><td>{{!!nombre}}</td></tr>
<tr><th>Dirección</th><td>{{!!direccion}}</td></tr>
<tr><th>Localidad</th><td>{{!!localidad}}</td></tr>
</table>

: <<.lorem>>
;Observaciones
: <<.lorem>>
\end

<$action-sendmessage 
  $message="tm-new-tiddler" 
  title=<<unusedtitle """New $(new-item-title)$""">> 
  tags="[[$(currentTiddler)$]]" 
  foto="$:/plugins/kookma/thinkup/images/mr_avatar"
  caption="name and title"
  text=<<content>>
  keywords=""
  nombre=""
  direccion=""
  localidad=""
  fecha_nac=""
  telefono_f=""
  />

or adding a macro call <<createNewItem>> at the end of your version of $:/model/person-2 should also suffice to launch the action.

You could also make the macros global by adding the $:/tags/Macro tag to $:/model/person-2 and change the button actions to actions="<<createNewItem>>".

Have a nice day
Yaisog

Mohammad · August 5, 2022, 10:45am

See the @Yaisog answer above! As he said, $:/model/person-2 does nothing in your code.
The code by @Yaisog works.

Mohammad · August 5, 2022, 11:29am

Some simple examples for a button creates a tiddler

JuanPalomo · August 8, 2022, 10:20am

Thank you very much Yaisog!

With what you have told me everything has worked wonderfully. The problem was that I was using a model to generate a new tiddler using the Mehregam mechanism and with this other system it didn’t work for me.

Have a nice day

JuanPalomo · August 8, 2022, 10:35am

Thank you very much for the information Mohammad!

I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but on the Fish for you website you mentioned the other day (https://tw5s.vercel.app/) there is a section with links.

There you have the one from TiddlyWiki XP (TiddlyWiki xp — A chance to experience TiddlyWiki very quickly) that I think can give you ideas for Mehregam, or not…

It’s given me quite a few ideas for what I’m doing, but I can’t get to the implementation level used on that page, so I’ll use what I can and understand.

I’m trying to translate the different plugins into English since it has quite a few comments and annotations in Chinese, if I manage to finish the translation I’ll upload it here. There is a link on TiddlyWiki XP where you can download all the plugins the author has created and the ones he uses on his wiki.

Another page that I also liked is — Read the Word,Read the World., although the latter although I can download it to my computer, then I am not able to open it locally…

All the best.

Mohammad · August 8, 2022, 10:45am

Hi Juan,
I think there is no need for translation (not sure). @linonetwo may have some advices here.
BUT first do this

From sidebar open More tab
In the More Tab look for language (you can see the flag)
Change the language to English

Wonderful. If you have time, please add this to Showcase (like this one: Daily Notes and Interstitial Journaling by Scott Kingery)

Mohammad · August 8, 2022, 10:47am

TBH, the Chinese community of TiddlyWiki have recently produced great Editions/Plugins !