This question of whether tiddlers should be identified by title or by an abstract GUID is a perennial one.
My aim is that users should be able to use GUIDs for tiddler titles if it suits their use case. The missing piece is a way of linking to a tiddler by it's GUID/title, but having a specified field displayed as the text of the link. Here's an example of a macro to do that: \define link(guid) <$tiddler tiddler="$guid$"><$link><$view field="name"/></$link></$tiddler> \end This is a link by guid <<link qqu99yie1>> Of course, it would be more useful if one could arrange for that macro to be automatically substituted for links. Best wishes Jeremy. On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Felix Küppers <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I know linking via ids is not readable in edit mode, however in a > non-edit mode, the id translates to a name, so that is ok for me. > > As for semantic-alias (i.e. a real second title) vs. ids, I rather chose > ids as their purpose is only to allow exact references. same as in SQL > autoincrement primary keys... > And I rather place them inside a field because I like them to be more > "invisible" as they have no semantic meaning. > > However I took a closer look at you example in your space and it is a > really nice workaround you are using, I mean exploiting the masking-title > of the link as a variable to use it in a local macro. > > This way I could do something like > > {{ 415241 | id }} > > and put the filter in the macro instead of directly writing > > {{{ [field:id[]!has[draft.of]first[]] }}} > > that will make a nice shortcut... > > > > On Monday, June 2, 2014 3:30:38 PM UTC+2, Stephan Hradek wrote: >> >> I can't see a fundamental difference between my alias approach and using >> IDs. Except that ID's tend to be unreadable. >> > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
