In this lesson, at a high-level, we take a look at how to use export code and HTML templates. Woking with export code and HTML templates is fundamental to your Tinderbox experience, as it is one of the primary ways you get your work out of Tinderbox, i.e. are able to contribute your efforts to the world.â
â Remember: Contribution is the 4th C in 4Cs of Meaning & Knowledge Making, a process that comes to life in a transformative way through and with Tinderbox.
Thanks for the feedback. Nice to know things are improving. So many new learnings in this process, not just Tinderbox, but video production (picture and audio), course prioritization and development, module management, YouTube promotion, etc. A lot of little details that Iâve never been exposed to before.
Iâm trying to replicate this process so i can learn how to get stuff out TBX. So far Iâve been unable to. Iâve started with a new file, created a couple of notes, nested one within the other - creating note 1 as a container - and brought in the HTML template. I then do what Michael does at timestamp 2:55 and look at the text pane and then preview pane, but I do not see the text for both notes, only note 1 which contains note 2. I downloaded the TBX file and yes when I open it, it works as per the video. Iâve even tried copying the content of that file to a new file I created but I still canât re-create that situation whereby the preview pane shows the text for the top note [i.e the container] and all its children i.e the notes within the container. Am I doing something stupid or is this something to do with the new version - I am using vers 9.5 and note that the text pane selector is now different - HTML replaced with Export. Whether that is the issue I do not know.
Thanks for the videos by the way - despite this problem they are very helpful and I am making progress.
AS you donât get this with nested notes, ensure you are using the built-in âHTMLâ template and note the built-in âHTML single noteâ template. The latter doesnât include content from child notes.
If still stuck why not post a small demo file (you can upload TBX files) that shows the problem? Sometimes issues are unintentional misconfigurations that are hard to spot in the textual description but easily spotted in an open TBX document.
Thank you both. Yep, when I looked at the export selector it was showing the preview template. Going through the release notes I now know that the âExport Paneâ is the rewording of what was once the âHTML Pane.â - so that was not the problem. I can now replicate what was in the video and learnt a few things along the way.
Thank you both again for such quick and helpful responses.
@drees, youâre welcome. Taking a big leap ahead, check out this thread: Attempting to create a mileage log - #46 by satikusala. Youâll learn a ton from this, including the recent discussion on leveraging offsets to manage notes (e.g., create, delete, update) and pull values from attributes anywhere within your file.
A lot of little details that Iâve never been exposed to before.
