Image transclusion not working for me

[TimP]

Hi, 

On Windows 10/chrome I downloaded an image to the same directory as my TW. 

This works: [img[burnStrawman.jpg]]

This does not: {{burnStrawman.jpg}}

Documented here: https://tiddlywiki.com/static/Images%2520in%2520WikiText.html

Nothing shows in the JS console log. 

Am I doing something wrong?

cheers

Tim

[Ton Gerner]

Hi Tim,

You can try at tiddlywiki.com:

[img[Motovun Jack.jpg]]

and

{{Motovun Jack.jpg}}

both work because Motovun Jack.jpg is an image tiddler, an embedded image.

Documented here: https://tiddlywiki.com/static/Images%2520in%2520WikiText.html

The link you provided says:

If the image source is the title of an image tiddler then that tiddler is directly displayed. Otherwise it is interpreted as a URL and an HTML <img> tag is generated with the src attribute containing the URL.

So the first works also for images in the same folder as your TW.

Cheers,

Ton

 

[Mark S.]

Hello Tim,

You can't transclude external resources, such as images.

I can see where your confusion comes from, though. In the docs you see:

{{Motovun Jack.jpg}}

which looks like a regular file name. But actually what is happening there is that it is transcluding a tiddler,
that happens to have a name that looks like a file name. If you go to tiddlywiki.com and put "motovun" in the search box,

you can navigate to the actual tiddler, "Motovun Jack.jpg"

A lot of the tiddlers, especially system tiddlers, look like file paths, which cause me a bit of confusion at first.

Good luck!

-- Mark

[Tim Pizey]

Thank you, 

I get it now, I think that the documentation could be improved here, I did assume that that was a local file url not a tiddler. 

cheers

Tim

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[Tim Pizey]

Hi, 

The tiddler 'Motovun Jack.jpg' on  https://tiddlywiki.com/ has a field 'source'.  

I do not have such a field available in the field drop down. I thought my version 5.1.11 might be the problem. 

I downloaded a new empty.html. Tried to create an image tiddler but  'source' field is not available. 

I am guessing that this is not longer a standard plugin?

thanks in advance. 

Tim

[Mark S.]

Actually, I'm wondering if "source" is new. I thought external files were in field _canonical_uri .

You can make your own source field. Put in a URL with a path to the image. Change the tiddler type to reflect the image type.

-- Mark

[Mark S.]

OK. Don't do what I said. The "source" field just documents the original source.

If you want to point to an external file, you will need to make a field "_canonical_uri" and put the path to your external image there.

You can learn about it here:

https://tiddlywiki.com/#ExternalImages

-- Mark

[Tim Pizey]

Thank you Mark.

TimP

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