Hi Coda and Mark, T hanks! I see now what I was doing wrong...
Here is my final output *<a href="./gracia.html" class="tc-tiddlylink-external"><$view tiddler="gracia" field="showname"/></a> David Gifford Mexico team leader, Mexico City *Resonate Global Mission* *Engaging People. Embracing Christ.* A Ministry of the Christian Reformed Church resonateglobalmission.org On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 11:49 AM, 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki < [email protected]> wrote: > What method are using to create the static page? Do the file names have > any special characters? > > Your first approach creates working links when I export a static page from > the advanced search tiddler. > > -- Mark > > > On Monday, February 5, 2018 at 5:02:21 AM UTC-8, David Gifford wrote: >> >> Hi all >> >> I want to create a pretty link in an index where the link is to the URL >> of an external page (preferably relative path, but I could live with >> absolute path), but the text shown refers to a field of a tiddler within >> the tiddlywiki file. >> >> Use case: I use a standalone TiddlyWiki to generate static pages, and a >> static index. I use the title fields of the tiddlers for the filename of >> the static pages, and a separate field called 'showname' to display the >> viewable title of the article in the tiddler. Since I plan to change >> shownames often (eg, from '8 things about this topic' to '10 things about >> this topic'), I want the index to automatically update so I don't have to >> hand enter each change in the index. That way, when I generate the static >> index, the showname titles will be baked in, but the links will be to web >> pages relative to the location of the index. >> >> I tried the following but they didn't work. I realize the problem is that >> I am mixing html tags with TiddlyWiki widgets. What could I do to get this? >> >> *<a href="./presentaciones.html"><$view tiddler="presentaciones" >> field="showname"/></a> >> >> *<$link to="./presentaciones.html"><$view tiddler="presentaciones" >> field="showname"/></$link> >> >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/tiddlywiki/sGYWl-xMTxA/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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/e688e01f-c0c7-4d31-bf51-39b774fb68c9%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e688e01f-c0c7-4d31-bf51-39b774fb68c9%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CANE%3DBFJKwertrQs6ogfHaHZvcuxRWXhOBWunH-M8Ewiesksdzg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

