Hi Jeremy, Thanks for the guide and I will see how far I can go.
May I ask a further question? Can a blank TW file also be created by publishing a Google web app? I guess it is about the fundamental requirements of creating a TW file vs. the limitation of GAS? (I read about Web app on GAS from https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/web) So I am thinking, 1. Create a Google spreadsheet on my Google drive. 2. Open Script Editor from the 'Tools' tab in the Google spreadsheet. 3. Add (write) all the necessary .js, .html, .css code in my TW.html file. Please see a screenshot attached below. GAS use .html file to store all these three types of files. 4. Use a .gs file, e.g. getData.gs, to read all the data from the Google spreadsheet. The data can be used to create a .json tiddler, and create tiddlers. 5. Publish as a web app. 6. The Google spreadsheet can be updated using a Google form. The form can also be a tiddler and be used to edit (add) tiddlers. 7. Multiple users can work on the Google spreadsheet. Their Google logins will be collected and used as tiddler authors. [image: Screen Shot 2019-02-20 at 10.12.53 PM.png] <about:invalid#zClosurez> Thanks, Chun On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 12:25:32 AM UTC+13, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Hi Chun > > As I have been using Google Apps Scripts (GAS) and knowing TiddlyWiki for > about 1 year, I am trying to find out the possibilities of (re) writing > TiddlyWiki in GAS. The HTML services in GAS allows client side javascript, > CSS and HTML (https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/html). > Google Sheets might be a place to store (or keep a copy of) tiddlers, or be > used to produce a data tiddler. Google also has this ( > https://developers.google.com/apps-script/api/quickstart/nodejs) to make > node.js commands to GAS API. > > > Thanks! I think you are correct, there is a fascinating opportunity to > make an adaptation of TW that is served by GAS and can save changes back to > it. It would be a nice straightforward user experience too. > > I think the easiest way to get started would be to create a new > syncadaptor that loads and saves tiddlers via the GAS APIs. Then one could > serve a blank TW file that includes that plugin, and at startup it would > load the required tiddlers from the server. The next step might be to bake > tiddlers into the HTML file when it is first served. > > I'm not sure that I will personally have time to investigate this > opportunity in the near future, but I'd be very happy to help guide other > developers who might want to take up the challenge... > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > > > > Did I misunderstand anything? Or this sounds like a plan? Sorry if I > overlooked the Copyright of Tiddlywiki as I don't intend to do so. > > Thanks! > > Chun > > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > 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/97145418-d172-42b5-aaff-c6b170c7d4ca%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/97145418-d172-42b5-aaff-c6b170c7d4ca%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/3892995d-c9bd-42af-b164-173d2b7bdd4f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
