Folks, I have come across a "problem" for which I am investigating a solution, and keen to hear any ideas. ultimately I hope this to provide a generic solution for advanced field handling I would share back into the community.
*Problem:* Consider we may like to have a field in one or more tiddlers to store a url to an external resource for that tiddler. Field: url, Value: https://tiddlywiki.com/#cycle%20Operator The thing is what if we wanted to store a simplified name such as "Cycle Operator" or a target for links such as _blank or "operators" there is no where to specify the url/name and url/target. when we construct a link to this URL it would be nice to find the name/target for this url field/tiddler combination. In future I also want to have a discussion-link tiddler with matching name and target, with even more similar fields. *Possible approach* We could use the "_" underscore to delimit such "subFields" and create additional fieldnames such as url_name and url_target. Then when I have code dealing with "url" it can look for fields beginning url_ to find its "subfields". I wonder if this compromises the available fieldnames or others plugins and solutions that make use of the "_" underscore more often than I do? Perhaps such fields that may have subfields could end with "_" eg; "url_" meaning subfields exist for this fieldname. *More complex systematic approach* I could store in a data tiddler (For each tiddler) these additional subfields, or even in a new special text field inside each tiddler. *A not so desirable approach* Build all the handling to allow the url field (in this case) actually be the full http link or html <a> tag. The problem being one may need to code and decode the content of the url field for every add or change, also if one had dozens of different link fields it could get messy. Your Thoughts? Tones -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/fedaddb4-80c7-451c-86fe-bce7750ccc1fn%40googlegroups.com.
