Easy way to combine TW5 files?

[JWHoneycutt]

Hello all, 

I would like to combine a few TW5 files into one, and I would like to avoid having to import individual tiddlers (too many).

Is there a plugin that handles this?

Intelligent handling of duplicate tiddler names and ability to add a tag to every tiddler in a particular database are pluses.

Thanks for your help.

JWHoneycutt

[Mat]

Not 100% sure but I think it is just a matter of drag and dropping a TW file (i.e the html file) onto the other opened file, just like you would import e.g a tiddler. I think this is the same procedure used when upgrading your TW.

<:-)

[PMario]

On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 8:15:03 PM UTC+2, JWHoneycutt wrote:

Hello all, 

Hi
Your title says: "Easy way to combine TW5 files?"

The problem here is "Easy" ..
 

I would like to combine a few TW5 files into one, and I would like to avoid having to import individual tiddlers (too many).

Is there a plugin that handles this?

I don't know one. IMO the existing import mechanism is the easiest way to do this atm.
 

Intelligent handling of duplicate tiddler names and ability to add a tag to every tiddler in a particular database are pluses.

There is a new "Tiddler Manager" in the pre-release, which allows faster meta data editing of existing tiddlers. ... Something similar could happen in the import UI, ... but I think your post is a feature request.

-mario

 

[Lost Admin]

On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 3:37:14 PM UTC-4, PMario wrote:

On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 8:15:03 PM UTC+2, JWHoneycutt wrote:

Hello all, 

Hi
Your title says: "Easy way to combine TW5 files?"

The problem here is "Easy" .. 

I'm partial to the unix command line cat wiki1.html wiki2.html > newwiki.html

Granted that totally breaks the wiki but I find it easy. Pointless, but easy. :)

 

[jwd]

I'm sure it is not the intended way to accomplish this but what I do is use the TiddlyWiki server / node.js version that maintains tiddlers as separate files.  Then, I create a maOS/Unix symlink in one TiddlyWiki tiddler collection that points to the tiddler that I want to include from another collection.

$ ln -s ../../DayLog/tiddlers/TiddlyWiki_Additions.tid .

Then, if I update that tiddler what actually gets updated is the 'master' copy in the other collection - in this case my DayLog. git merges of these tiddler collections help me keep my sanity if I end up updating the same tiddler in different instantiations of my TiddlyWiki's. For me, it makes the same information show up in multiple places, effectively combining selected tiddlers in multiple TiddlyWiki.

Whether Windows junctions would permit the same on that platform I leave as an exercise. Nor have I tried simply moving a bunch of tiddlers into a sub-directory and symlinking to that subdirectory.
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Jonathan