Dear all,
Freelinks are especially great when text gets dumped into a wiki from
multiple sources (such as students in a class, or excepts from texts), and
where the main author/curator of the wiki can't or shouldn't modify the
text generated by other authors.
Currently, out of caution around potential performance-drag, I have
freelinks picking up titles for only a select set of tiddlers: those tagged
with *keyword *... and now also for *keyword-alias*. (In 5.1.24 prerelease:
Filter defining tiddlers to which freelinks are made: "[tag[keyword]]
[tag[keyword-alias]]")
I continue to hope that freelinks will one day work seamlessly with an
"aliases" or "title-variants" field... It's hard to imagine any person who
finds freelinks useful but who wouldn't benefit from getting title-variants
recognized without fuss.
But for now, I'll share a very limited workaround, so that a freelink
(virtual link) to *empiricism* (or at least, a functional equivalent) will
display whenever tiddler text mentions empiric*ists* (for example).
I actually generate a tiddler called empiricists and then populate it with
{{empiricism}}. I then set the caption field to empiricism, and add the tag
*keyword-alias*.
Then, two tweaks to the system make it look almost seamless -- assuming you
don't really need to *see* titles rather than this more semantically
pointed (but not-necessarily-unique) caption field.
(1a) Modify *$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/title*
*<$view field="title"/>* can be replaced with
*<$transclude field="caption">{{!!title}}</$transclude>*
(1b) Do the same for *$:/core/macros/timeline* (if the Recents sidebar tab
is front-and-center, as with a blog). ... and also modify timeline macro
to reflect something like:
*\define timeline(limit:"100",format:"DDth MMM
YYYY",subfilter:"!tag[keyword-alias]",dateField:"modified")*
(2) In my case, an additional ViewTemplate footer template (a dynamic table
showing rows for each tag-child of the keyword specified in tiddler's
title, displaying exactly on tiddlers which serve as tags), and this also
needs to be added in to better mimic the original tiddler. So my content
for the keyword-alias tiddler empiricists is actually:
{{empiricism}}
{{empricism||keyword}}
As you can imagine, this is clunky, given that title-variants of X can't be
specified in the very process of creating tiddler X, and I need to clone
the above solution for each additional variant, such as empiricist
(singular) and so on. However the actual "weight" of each tiddler alias is
minimal, so effort is the main constraint.
Still, it's finally possible to ensure that if a student posts about
*empiricists*, we'll all see a link that effectively invites us to visit
the keyword *empiricism*.
Unless, of course, they misspell that keyword entirely. : |
Note, of course, this solution is better for a use-case like mine where
those who follow these variant-links don't usually need to edit the
original. Since my students don't generally edit the keywords directly,
that's not yet a problem for me.
Again, though: Any solution that requires a proliferation of tiddlers (as
well as messing with the timeline macro, etc.) feels less than
ideal. Freelinks will be better when a field directly in the "beacon"
tiddler lists all the title-variant strings that ought to point there.
Fingers crossed!
Cheers, and wishing you all a season of resilience...
-Springer
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