Tips in Tiddler Edit Mode

[atronoush]

I have created a TiddlyWiki and distributed to some participants to add some data and return. It is similar to a questionnaire but is not a real questionnaire.

Participants create tiddlers from the sidebar using a helper button. Each tiddler connected to a category and tagged with special words like health, sport, education, hobby, food, …

Question

1. I like to provide tips to participant when they fill out the fields in a tiddler
2. When a tiddler is opened in edit mode the tips shall be displayed at the bottom of tiddler
3. The tip has a small button to dismiss it, so next time I open it, tips wont be shown (or any tiddlers with that tag will not display the tips e.g. dismiss tips for that category)

How can I do this?

[telumire]

With an edit template : https://tiddlywiki.com/#Hidden%20Setting%3A%20ViewTemplate%20and%20EditTemplate

You can also use the new cascade feature: https://tiddlywiki.com/#Edit%20Template%20Body%20Cascade

It’s a bit more involved but it’s also more powerful. In your case, I think an edit template is enough.

See my wiki for an example of custom edit template:

https://curated-videos.tiddlyhost.com/

Here’s how it works:

I can toggle the edit view in the sidebar

Or access the edit view by editing a tiddler tagged with channel

A tiddler in view mode looks like this:

And it looks like that in edit mode:

As you can see, it’s possible to write text above inputs to give some hint to the user on what to fill in.

Relevant tiddlers that accomplish this: curated-videos

Note that what you want to do can be done much more easily than in my example. Let me know if you need help, I wont be able to help you right now (I’m working on a file explorer project), but I should be finished by tomorrow.