A Field View Template

[Jermolene]

Discussed in https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/discussions/6803

^{Originally posted by kookma July 20, 2022} In TW 5.2.2 and older version, I used a template like below to display fields in view mode

<$vars newFieldNameTiddler=<<qualify "$:/temp/NewFieldName">>
newFieldValueTiddler=<<qualify "$:/temp/NewFieldValue">>  
searchListState=<<qualify "$:/temp/searchListState">> 
storeTitle=<<qualify "$:/temp/storeTitle">> 
>
<$transclude tiddler="$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/fields"/>
</$vars>

In TW 5.2.3p, this does not work, so I followed to see what has been changed and released https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/6628 has been merged. It adds a feature to keep the input value when the filed name is changed. I updated my template to reflect this

\import [[$:/core/ui/EditTemplate]]
<!-- the above import required from TW5.2.3-->
<$reveal type=match stateTiddler stateTitle="$:/state/utility/view-fields" stateField=text default="hide" text=show tag=div class="kk-ut-viewfields">
<$vars newFieldNameTiddler=<<qualify "$:/temp/NewFieldName">>
newFieldValueTiddler=<<qualify "$:/temp/NewFieldValue">>  
newFieldNameInputTiddler=<<qualify "$:/temp/NewFieldName/input">>
newFieldNameSelectionTiddler=<<qualify "$:/temp/NewFieldName/selected-item">>
searchListState=<<qualify "$:/temp/searchListState">> 
storeTitle=<<qualify "$:/temp/storeTitle">> 
>
<$transclude tiddler="$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/fields"/>
</$vars>
</$reveal>

To give a try, open https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/, create a tiddler with above code and tag with $:/tags/ViewTemplate Then create a new tiddler, save and try add a field. TW UI crashes.

I am wondering what else happened to $:/core/ui/EditTemplate/fields that the solution does not work anymore.

Any idea?

[Jermolene]

My response from #6803

Hi @kookma that's disappointing. As you know, we try to retain rigorous backwards compatibility. #6511 has given us a few problems – #6628 is actually to fix a change in UI behaviour that was introduced in #6511.

We could fix the issue you raise here by ensuring that $:/core/ui/EditTemplate/fields applies default values for missing parameters. I'll convert it to an issue.

[kookma]

We could fix the issue you raise here by ensuring that $:/core/ui/EditTemplate/fields applies default values for missing parameters. I'll convert it to an issue.

This is good! and I think following and debugging the code is better (more simple).