Trigger the display of particular sidebar tabs via page control buttons

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Hi. I’m interested in the default sidebar tab being shown when the “Home” and “Close All” page control buttons are triggered.

I have been looking at these two tiddlers and imagine an answer lies in modifying them, or perhaps the macro that draws them:

$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/pagecontrols
$:/core/macros/tabs

This is my wiki: Jennifer's Notebook — Hypertext, realized

Any tips or directions are most welcome. :slight_smile:

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Some quick info

  • The $:/tags/SideBarSegment tag <<tag $:/tags/SideBarSegment>> is how Items are added to the sideBar
  • The Tiddler $:/core/ui/SideBarSegments/tabs is one of these and
    • lists the sidebar tabs with <<tag $:/tags/SideBar>>
    • Review $:/core/ui/SideBarSegments/tabs for the code

$:/core/ui/SideBarSegments/tabs
To cut a long story short each time you select a tab it updates explicitState="$:/state/tab/sidebar--595412856"/> with the tabs tiddlername. Eg open the Open tab and it contains $:/core/ui/SideBar/Open

Now modify the Home and Close all Buttons, perhaps using actions=<<your-actions>> on the button widget and ;

To force the open tab

\define your-actions()
<$action-setfield $tiddler="$:/state/tab/sidebar--595412856" text="$:/core/ui/SideBar/Open"/>
\end

Or replace the above text with a link to where the default tab is stored, which I could not find at time of writing;

\define your-actions()
<$action-setfield $tiddler="$:/state/tab/sidebar--595412856" text={{default tab tiddler}}/>
\end
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Thank you, this is very helpful. I shall puzzle on it.

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On tiddlywiki.com search for SystemTag for a lot more :nerd_face:

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What is the reasoning behind the name of these state tiddlers having a long string of numbers?

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It is so each tiddler can generate its own unique state tiddler because this number is influenced by where the <<qualify prefix>> macro was invoked. It is however somewhat redundant when used in core tiddlers like the page template because the “number” will always be the same.

  • If you wanted to toggle something on each tiddler seperatly you need a different state tiddler for every tiddler or they would affect other tiddlers.