You will surely get some "spot on" help from others once they have time to
reply.
If I have understood your requirements correctly, here is a solution just
off the top of my head.
1. Make a new tiddler, and give it this tag: $:/tags/Macro
2. Add a field to the tiddler and name it: *file*
- Give this *file* field a value of your file name. Example:
*index.html*
3. Add another field to the tiddler - and name it: *path*
- Give this *path* field a default value for your path to the file -
Example: *default/path/*
4. In the body of that tiddler copy and paste the below:
\define external-document(file:{{!!file}} path:{{!!path}})
\rules except wikilink
<$wikify name="location" text="$path$$file$">
<a href=<<location>> target="_blank">$file$</a>
</$wikify>
\end
Save the tiddler. You have created a Global macro (a variable on steroids)
- which can be used as below.
When you need to create the link to the external file using the default
path, in the body of the tiddler, type this text:
<<external-document>>
Someone else receiving this tiddler - can change the path in the *path*
field of the tiddler and call it the exact same way.
Alternatively they can change the path by using the macro like this:
<<external-document path:"the new path/whatever it might be/">>
Note the file name also can be easily changed, both by changing it in the
*file* field, or by specifying it in the macro.
Hope that helps for now.
On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 11:49:29 PM UTC+7, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>
> Is there any documentation that really lays out the concepts? Or, a
> document that takes a "task-based" approach?
>
> I'm getting started using TW5 and the most basic functionality is obvious
> to me -- I can create Tiddlers, link and 'transclude' (why use such an
> opaque word?) them, but doing things like arranging Tiddlers
> hierarchically, which seems like basic functionality, are mysterious. They
> seem to involve creating other Tiddlers with special names and copying a
> bunch of code into them.
>
> Here's something I'd like to do which I'm missing:
>
> I want to link to an external document from my Wiki in multiple Tiddlers.
> Depending on the user, the document may be in a different location. I'd
> like to create a variable or something that defines the location of the
> document. Each user can change the value of the variable to point to where
> the document lives in his filesystem.
>
> How would you do that?
>
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