What about if you have multiple url resources for a tiddler? Is that a
flexibility you want?
Or do you only ever want { 0:1 } url resource scenarios per tiddler?
On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 3:35:10 AM UTC-3 TW Tones wrote:
> 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
>
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