Get backlinks from fields

[Jon Dyer]

Tiddler A links to Tiddler B, but only in a custom field, not in the main text body. I have backlinks showing on every tiddler, a la Stroll, but the backlink[] operator does not pick up on links in fields, apparently. Any ideas about how to go about making those appear? Am I going to have to mess with the core JavaScript that indexes backlinks? Would prefer not to...

Thanks in advance!

[Charlie Veniot]

G'day,

When the relink plugin is installed, that adds a "Relink References" tab to a tiddlers "information".

That shows "The following tiddlers contain fields, links, macros, transclusions, or widgets referencing this one."

Relink might provide a way for you to get what you're looking for.

Give it a spin.

Install the relink plugin, then add the following line in the text of Tiddler B:

{{||$:/plugins/flibbles/relink/ui/TiddlerInfo/References}}

[Charlie Veniot]

Continued/elaborated/expanded in a separate thread:  Just a neat use of Relinks "References" feature

[Jon Dyer]

This is so helpful, thanks very much! Currently experimenting with your recommendation in that thread, something like:

<$list filter="[relink:references<currentTiddler>!is[system]!title[$:/StoryList]sort[title]]"/>

Unfortunately it isn't giving me what I expected (maybe <currentTiddler> isn't set correctly). But I'm sure I'll figure it out soon! 

[Charlie Veniot]

If that bit of TiddlyWiki code is in some tiddler (let's just say tiddler XYZ), and you are transcluding tiddler XYZ in other tiddlers ...

It may be simply the difference between transcluding via {{ XYZ }} versus transcluding via {{ || XYZ }} ?