problem: image tiddlers remain as orphans when linked from without

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Damián Gil

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Oct 4, 2020, 10:23:00 AM10/4/20
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Hi to all.

I'm a non-technical user of Stroll. It's great, but I have a problem.

I am a heavy image user. I make lots of image tiddlers that link to external images via canonical uris. The problem is that when I make a link to an image tiddler from another tiddler like this:

[img[Vanessa Williams]]

the tiddler named "Vanessa Williams", which is an image tiddler, remains an orphan. That is an undesired behaviour in my case. I want to see images in the middle of text tiddlers, comment the images, etc. But if an image can be seen from another tiddler, I would like the corresponding image tiddler to dissapear from the orphans list. The reason is that I would like my orphan list to be really composed of tiddlers that have no links to the main wiki.

Any ideas?

Joshua Fontany

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Oct 4, 2020, 8:31:44 PM10/4/20
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Surprisingly Easily!

After digging around for a bit, I found this system tiddler that drives the list of Orphans (specifically in the More>>Orphans tab):

$:/core/Filters/Orphans  

Search for that in the "Shadows" tab of Advanced Search. Open it, click to edit and change the contents to this:

[all[orphans]!has[_canonical_uri]sort[title]]


Also, when crafting your own filters, use the !has[] operator to remove all tiddlers that have external canonical uris. You can add more logic to filter out only image types if you want.

Best,
Joshua Fontany

Damián Gil

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Oct 5, 2020, 3:46:58 AM10/5/20
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Thanks. The problem with your solution is that the image tiddlers which really ARE orphans (they haven't been linked from any other tiddler) don't show on the orphans list.
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