eric yeah, its long schlepp around. :-)
On Sunday, 17 July 2016 03:26:20 UTC+2, Eric Shulman wrote: > > 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/d84d88e7-a984-4ee8-b8ab-9c7a2cf1201b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
