On Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 6:08:11 PM UTC-7, Mark S. wrote: > > I'm with you on needing a unique identifier -- every real database uses > unique id's. I was surprised that it wasn't in the TW5 design. > > I would go further and say that linking *should* occur by ID. The thing > about IDs is that they are immutable. The thing about titles is that they > *change* all the time. Currently, if you change a title, you have to go > back and change every single linking item. This means editing and changing > the mod date of possibly dozens of linked tiddlers. The alternative is that > you are stuck with a non-informative tiddler title possibly for the rest of > the life of the project. >
One way to address this is to use the *caption* field as the tiddler's visible "title" (by tweaking the view template), which would allow you to use the real *title* field to hold a unique ID. There may be a few other places in the core that would need tweaking to also show the caption text (e.g. the contents of tag popups), but it shouldn't be too difficult. -e -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/33ffef99-1af4-42e0-b3a4-276466cf2fd8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
