Mark, I believe that the ability to change paths across the wiki from when its hosted as a file (Timimi and Other savers), or a bob/tiddlyServer/TiddlyDesk Top node etc... at different IP address/DNS name, folder and Port should have some *defacto* if not djoure (https://onlinelaw.wustl.edu/blog/legal-english-de-factode-jure/} standard as it is a common need.
We could actually automate this to some degree using the $:/info tiddlers to generate a here path, ie relative to where it is currently hosted, but allow this to be varied in one or more groups eg images etc... Regrads Tony On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 5:54:17 AM UTC+11, Mark S. wrote: > > I've done things like that with images. For images, I made it so that a > drop-down configuration would let me change the base path of all images > that use the <<ximg filename>> (the original macro started out being that > of Tobias Bier). This way I could change the path of all images in one > convenient location. > > I'm thinking the same thing could be use for external documents. But I > just thought of an enhancement. Have a series of tiddlers tagged as > "DocPath". Each tiddler would contain the path for a particular > platform/user. The tiddler using the external document macro (perhaps > <<document turbulence-studies-of-agricultural-commodities.pdf>>) would be > tagged with DocPath. Click on the DocPath tag and from the list of tiddlers > move your favorite path to the top. That top one becomes selected as the > base path for your user. > > Anyone else think that would be handy? > > -- Mar > > On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 8:49:29 AM UTC-8, 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? >> > -- 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/c9194e6c-958e-46df-ae30-4e18ec143cee%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
