Hi Jeremy,

This is the message I see in the tiddler:



> Loading external text from *./test.tid*
>
> If this message doesn't disappear you may be using a browser that doesn't 
> support external text in this configuration. See http:
> //tiddlywiki.com/#ExternalText
>
>
>
>
On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 10:46:34 AM UTC-7, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
>
> Hi Mark
>
> There's supposed to be the ability to link to external tid files using 
> _canonical_uri. However, it doesn't work on my very latest FF, so not sure 
> where it does work. I notice that the link to 
> http://tiddlywiki.com/#ExternalText doesn't exist, so maybe the idea was 
> dropped..
>
>
> The documentation is missing, but the feature is present. There are some 
> notes in the release tiddler for the version when the feature was released:
>
> http://tiddlywiki.com/#Release%205.1.10
>
> To test it, try visiting this link:
>
> http://tiddlywiki.com/#Alice%20in%20Wonderland
>
> If you see the full text of “Alice in Wonderland”, then it is working. 
> Basically, the tiddler has a _canonical_uri field pointing to a .tid file.
>
> The only browser-specific limitation I’m aware of is that Chrome won’t 
> display external tiddlers when the TiddlyWiki is loaded from a file:// URI. 
> But there are many other gotchas that make external tiddlers pretty tricky 
> to work with if one is only working in the standalone configuration.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jeremy.
>
>
> You might look at Tobias Beer's <<external>> plugin and see if it's want 
> you want: http://tobibeer.github.io/tw5-plugins/#external
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 3:16:36 AM UTC-7, David Myers wrote:
>>
>> Hello All.
>>
>> First of all I would like to thank all those who have worked on 
>> TiddlyWiki ~ suffice to say I love it lots and lots.
>>
>> Recently I've started a number of TiddlyWiki files and I often want to 
>> include them into one another.
>>
>> I know that I can 'import' and external TiddlyWiki from the Tools > 
>> Import menu in the side bar.
>>
>> However  would like to be able to 'transclude' an external wiki into my 
>> current one.
>>
>> My use case:
>>
>> I am writing my thesis, and use TW to take notes.
>> I use zotero and BibTex for storing my references. Whic I then import 
>> (one at a time) using inmysocks Citations Plugin 
>> <http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#Citations%20Plugin>
>> However I keep all my citations in a single tiddlywiki file, and then 
>> simply import this file into each of my other TiddlyWiki notebooks.
>>
>> This works fine, but I would really appreciate a way for the TW with the 
>> references / citations in to auto update into the currently open TW file 
>> (much like how transcluding a tiddler mean I only need a single copy of it 
>> and any updates I make are seen wherever it is transcluded.
>> This functionality exists in TW classic using the SharedTiddlerPlugin or 
>> ExternalTiddlersPlugin etc, but currently doesn't seem to be availabe in 
>> TW5 (or have I missed something ?)
>>
>> Another option would be to add in an 'import' button to do this 
>> automatically with this specified file.
>>
>> I found the loadTiddlersFromFile function, but I'm not sure how to call 
>> it directly from within the a tiddler. I could place a 'button' within the 
>> local references tiddler that could point to the external file.
>>
>> If anyone can give me any pointers that would be great, I'm fairly new to 
>> working on TW.
>>
>>
>> to this end I attemtped to find the JS code in the empty tiddlywiki file, 
>> but I can't seem to find it, as it doesn't seem to be called 'load' or 
>> 'import'
>>
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