Question: using the link widget for external links

[David Gifford]

Hi all

I want to create a pretty link in an index where the link is to the URL of an external page (preferably relative path, but I could live with absolute path), but the text shown refers to a field of a tiddler within the tiddlywiki file.

Use case: I use a standalone TiddlyWiki to generate static pages, and a static index. I use the title fields of the tiddlers for the filename of the static pages, and a separate field called 'showname' to display the viewable title of the article in the tiddler. Since I plan to change shownames often (eg, from '8 things about this topic' to '10 things about this topic'), I want the index to automatically update so I don't have to hand enter each change in the index. That way, when I generate the static index, the showname titles will be baked in, but the links will be to web pages relative to the location of the index.

I tried the following but they didn't work. I realize the problem is that I am mixing html tags with TiddlyWiki widgets. What could I do to get this?

*<a href="./presentaciones.html"><$view tiddler="presentaciones" field="showname"/></a>

*<$link to="./presentaciones.html"><$view tiddler="presentaciones" field="showname"/></$link>

[David Gifford]

I found a workaround for now, by separating the showname from the link. But I would still love it if there were a way to combine the two.

*<$view tiddler="acercamientos" field="showname" format="text"/> - [ext[liga|./acercamientos.html]]

[coda coder]

David

Perhaps I'm not understanding the issue, but both of these work for me:

1 <a href="recipes.html">{{recipes!!link-text}}</a>

2 <a href="recipes.html"><$view tiddler="recipes" field="link-text"/></a>

[Mark S.]

What method are using to create the static page? Do the file names have any special characters?

Your first approach creates working links when I export a static page from the advanced search tiddler.

-- Mark

[David Gifford]

Hi Coda and Mark,

T

​hanks! I see now what I was doing wrong...

Here is my final output *<a href="./gracia.html" class="tc-tiddlylink-external"><$view tiddler="gracia" field="showname"/></a>​

David Gifford

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