[TW5] Is it possible to create external links in the titles of tiddlers?

[Deniz Rende]

Hello Everyone,

Have a quick question or RFE for the subject here.

I'd like to be able to create hyperlinks in the titles of tiddlers. I know that you can create links inside their notes by using conventions like [[test|www.test.com]] or use the hyperlink button, but I'd like to do the same thing for their titles. See the attachment image for this. If this is not possible, may I then kindly request to make this RFE ?

 

Thank you!

Regards,

Deniz Rende

[Mark S.]

The title is kind of like a very special field in TW5. And because it often contains all sorts of characters, rendering it exactly as it was entered is pretty important.

Why not just put your reference in the body of the tiddler? Perhaps describe your use-case.

Good luck --
Mark

[Deniz Rende]

Hi Mark,

That's exactly how I have been doing as you suggested but I have literally hundreds of todo lists in a checbox format and it gets pretty much redundant to include the link inside the note while I could just add that to the title and just click that specific portion in that title as a hyperlink to get me where I need. If this complicates development and if you feel this might be unnecessary work, then I'll just keep using it the way I have been using it for now.

Regards,

Deniz Rende

[Tobias Beer]

Hi Deniz,

A url doesn't quite sound like a to do item to me. Doing something in the context of it would be. So, either there's not much of a need to have every url be a "to-do", e.g. you could have one to do for all URLs and have that checked when all are done and track the status of each inside a tiddler, e.g.:

title: update servers
tag: [[to do]]

* Y http://foo.com | 2017-01-08 <= e.g. when done
* N http://bar.com

* N http://baz.com

To me, it makes little sense to search for foo and then prominently find a tiddler called http://foo.com which is also a URL or turned into one, in some context. What does that tell me and why is it tagged to do? Maybe for you it's clear in some context. On its own, it's not so much.

Best wishes,

Tobias. 

[Mark S.]

What I would do is create a tiddler with a list that would list the tiddlers and the url. You can make it your default opening tiddler. Assuming your tasks were tagged as "Todo" and each had a field called "url", it might look like this:

<$list filter="[tag[Todo]sort[]]">
<$view field="title"/> {{!!url}}
</$list>

This will list the tiddlers and the url for them. You could also easily add a checkbox for marking the tiddler as done and taking it out of the loop.

HTH
Mark

[Deniz Rende]

Hi Mark/Tobias,

See my screenshot on how I already organized my weekly todo items, it is pretty much very close to what you guys have described. On a second thought, since these are checkboxes, and clicking them will put the item into "done" section what I need may not work in this context. What I was trying to achieve was that maybe create a different todo type of list but ability to click a portion of the title so that for example I can get to the external JIRA ticket I am working on because of the link I created. For example, "01 - Mon - Work on XYZ ticket", ability to hyperlink XYZ and just click that inside the title.

Mark's suggestion below also works.

Thanks!

[Tobias Beer]

Hi Deniz,

Ok, let's just say you can do it that way, e.g. simply via something like:

title: check out http://tiddlywiki.com

<$link>»</$link> {{!!title}}

So, just transclude the title field and you should get your clickable url.

However, the link to that tiddler should be a separate thing, rather than everything also be a clickable link to a tiddler.

Best wishes,

Tobias.