link to external (local) tiddlers

Wilmer González

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Jan 12, 2016, 11:54:30 PM1/12/16

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Hey guys!

i've been thinking: there's a way to link external tiddlers and see them in the tiddlywiki from where i just call it?

for example:

we have index.html(as tiddlywiki)

and inside of it we create a tiddler referencing to helpme.tid (in the same directory)

then when clicking on the link it shows up (as a regular tiddler) inside of index.html.

...in the usual way it shows up as another window in the browser.

anyway i think it could be a great feature if doesn't exist yet.

greetings!

Tobias Beer

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Jan 13, 2016, 11:31:27 AM1/13/16

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Hi Wilmer,

As just announced here,

I created a new plugin called tobibeer/external

that should do these things for you:

http://tobibeer.github.io/tw5-plugins/#external

Best wishes,

Tobias.

Wilmer González

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Jan 13, 2016, 10:57:21 PM1/13/16

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Hi Tobias,

i'll surely give it a try and then feedback, thanks in advance!

Jeremy Ruston

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Jan 13, 2016, 11:52:01 PM1/13/16

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Hi Wilmer

You may also want to look at the support for External Tiddlers added in 5.1.10; the functionality is precisely as you describe, albeit it takes some careful configuration to get things working.

Best wishes

Jeremy

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Wilmer González

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Jan 15, 2016, 7:02:47 PM1/15/16

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the new support it's exactly what i was looking for,

just need '_canonical_uri' attribute and the relative path to the '.tid' file and it works.

Although, i don't understand what mean this:

"...

saving changes in the browser doesn't work as expected: if edited, the external text tiddler is replaced with an ordinary tiddler

..."

is it that on the new copy the external tiddler its already in the html(loaded)?

TiddlyWiker

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Jan 16, 2016, 2:00:38 AM1/16/16

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Hi Wilmer,

Being a nonprogrammer maybe I have
missed the point somehow but
could this be another way to do it?

1. go to the target tiddlywiki
2. open the tiddler you want "embedded"
3. create a permalink for that tiddler and save
the permalink
4. in the "recieving tiddlywiki" create a tiddler
with the same title
5. in that tiddler create an iframe with
the permalink

ie.

<html><iframe width="1000" height="600" src="
permalink
" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>
6. save and Voila!

By the way this should work for "embedding" most files
(depending on the filetype) and folders from your hardrive
if that is what is meant by embedding.

Just put the link to the file or folder in the above Iframe.

Interestingly it seems the embedded tiddler can also be edited
from your recieving tiddlywiki since it links you to the
original tiddly wiki.
For editing text files, html or other files files embedded in this way
but not within a tiddlywiki
I use the firefox extension
ViewSourceWith which allows you to view the source and
edit it in the editor of your choice without leaving the
browser.

Regards,

TiddlyWiker

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