Thanks, BJ. Now it's clear. I was confusing "link" with URL/URI. I'm off to the races now!
On Monday, March 20, 2017 at 12:21:54 PM UTC-7, BJ wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > you can drag tiddlers from the 'open' tab on the right hand side - just > open the tiddler you want to copy, then drag it from the list in the 'open' > tab to the destination tidwiki > > all the best > BJ > > On Monday, March 20, 2017 at 7:48:09 PM UTC+1, Daniel Cunningham wrote: >> >> Hi All: >> >> I hope this is not going to be an embarrassing question. But I did >> search the docs and groups/forums to no avail, so here goes... >> >> I am trying to do a copy of a single tiddler from one local TW5 file to >> another. For example, an "action item" exists in a small "to-do list" TW5 >> wiki, but perhaps now I am wanting to file & cross reference it into a >> larger "research notes" TW5 wiki, and then delete it from the "action >> items" wiki (which I want to keep as small as possible). >> >> I see from the TW5 docs that a copy operation is done by a drag & drop >> of the source URL onto the destination browser window. So I generated a >> permalink for the tiddler in the "source window", and dragged it onto the >> destination window, which kicked off the import process. >> >> The result of this is import process yields a tiddler with a URI to the >> permalink. So it's (kind of) like a "copy-by-reference". What I seek is >> more of a a "copy-by-value". So then I tried the "import" tool via the >> tool tab. Which will work to do the copy by value. But... >> >> ...For a single tiddler, it's not very user friendly. To import the one >> tiddler from the source wiki took about 120 clicks, as I had to disable all >> the tiddlers that I did not want to copy over. That's a lot of >> clickity-clicking! I did not see any "select/deselect all", which could >> have made it take only 2 or 3 clicks. >> >> So, am I missing a key user interface? It there a simpler way to import >> (or copy by value) the content (versus the URI/URL) of a single tiddler? >> >> I can see one response being: "why not just cut/paste"? As I explore >> TW5, and think about moving tiddlers from one TW5 "notebook" to another, I >> also think it's important to try to preserve tagging states, and also >> custom field states, which a simple copy/paste operation seems insufficient >> to do. >> >> If it's missing functionality, perhaps a column header with the >> aforementioned "select/deselect all/none" functionality would suffice? >> >> Details: I am operating TW5 with Firefox 50.0.2 on Linux Mint 18 (Sarah) >> XFCE (and loving it, BTW). >> >> Best regards, >> >> -- Daniel >> >> >> -- 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/6f3fff2d-8b99-42cf-98c0-d94078695f56%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
