Transclude field value as a link

[Alexei R]

Why following exsample doesnt works?

I have tiddler with field named myfield1 that has value 22.

I would like to transclude / show myfield1 value into tiddler text area as a link.

When I enter [[{{!!myfield1}}]] expression as tiddler's text it rendered as link {{!!myfield1}} instead of link 22 as I would expect.

At other hand I always can assign value [[22]] to myfield1 field. And transclude it just with {{!!myfield1}} expression.

But it not acceptable for me by some unrelated reason.

[FrD]

Hi,

Try :

<$link to={{!!myfield1}}>{{!!myfield1}}</$link>

Regards

FrD

[Alexei R]

Thank you it is working!

I'll look into https://tiddlywiki.com/#LinkWidget:LinkWidget%20PrettyLinks ...

But intuitively this solution feels a bit complicated for such elegant tool as TiddlyWiki .

It must be more laconic way....

Isn't it possible to replace <$link to={{!!myfield1}}> expression with some kind of brackets?

[Jed Carty]

Outside of filters, anything inside [[ and ]] is rendered as a link with the literal text inside being treated as the target of the link without substitutions because things inside the links often shouldn't be wikified. {{!!myfield1}} isn't changed because it is assumed to be the literal target of the link. Determining when to wikify things inside the link syntax would be a very difficult task and would come with its own set of strange and unexpected behaviour. It is simpler to just say that everything inside [[ and ]] is treated as a string literal and provide alternate methods (like FrD suggested) to make links with references.