Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5 — pull request #295 by Skeeve (2013-12-18 22:23:40+00:00)
Title: Newtiddler

This is a test for the highly experimental New-Tiddler-Button.

The New-Tiddler-Button expects 2 parameters:

Parameter | Mandatory | Explanation
title | yes | the title of the new tiddler. Will get numbers appended
skeleton | yes | an existing tiddler which may contain variable placeholders
edit | no | This defines wether to open the new tiddler in edit mode.
| Must be one of "yes", "no" or (not implemented yet) "inline

The most important part lies in the skeleton! TiddlyWiki already can clone tiddlers, but you can't really prefill data of the newly created tiddler.

With <$newtiddler> you can put placeholders of the form $(variable)$ anywhere in the tiddler and they will be replaced by the values of the variables set with the <$set> or <$let> widget. Please note: The placeholders can be anywhere! In the tiddlers body, in fields, types, you name it…

The example skeleton used here looks like this:
Property | Content
title | skeleton 1
text | This is some test: $(placeholder)$
tags | $(tag1)$
field1 | $(f1)$
field2 | $(f2)$

If we now put this into our tiddler:

<$let f1=<> f2="field-2" placeholder="pl1" tag1="testtag">
<$newtiddler title="test" skeleton="skeleton 1">Create

We get (Create) a button.

Clicking it, will open a new tiddler with some values pre-filled.