[TW5] Duplicate tiddler names and TOC tree

[Bob Flandard]

Hello,

I'm using the excellent toc macro, but notice that it's not possible to have two (or more) tiddlers with the same name, which means that two distinct level1 tiddlers can't have level2 children with the same name. I could just think of unique names, but that looks a bit strange (e.g. TiddlyWiki1, TiddlyWiki2... where no order is actually implied). Is there a nifty way around this?

Thanks, Bob

[Tobias Beer]

Hi Bob,

There is: using the caption field.

In fact, I am thinking that

I might also want an option to
shown the the caption as the title

in view-mode, thus:

displayed title: Introduction

actual title: My New Book With A Long Title - Introduction

- tb

[Bob Flandard]

Hello tb,

Thanks for the link. That is nifty and works well. The caption field displayed as the tiddler title would be a nice option. There could be many tiddlers that you wanted displayed with a title "Introduction" as it's a common heading, but only one tiddler is allowed that privilege.

Happy doings, Bob

[Suzanne McHale]

I tried that with mine (two tiddlers with the same name but under different parent tags), but it did not work for me - "Do you wish to overwrite the tiddler [tiddler name]?"

[Eric Shulman]

On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 7:02:57 PM UTC-7, Suzanne McHale wrote:

I tried that with mine (two tiddlers with the same name but under different parent tags), but it did not work for me - "Do you wish to overwrite the tiddler [tiddler name]?"

Each tiddler *title* must be unique (e.g., "Intro1", "Intro2", etc.).  If you add a *caption* field to a tiddler, you can specify the text that will appear in the TOC list. However, the caption value does not have to be unique to each tiddler.  Thus, you can set it to be "Introduction" in more than one tiddler, and that is the text that will appear, even though the underlying *title* fields are different.

enjoy,

-e

Eric Shulman

ELS Design Studios

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