Shredder,
Consider having an icon listed just before the tiddler name that if clicked
is a link to the address in say the link field on the relevant tiddler.
Basically remove nothing, add something.
I already know how to add buttons to lists of tiddlers, I can share how if
you want. The easiest is a long side the
<$link/> or
<<currentTiddler>>
Add a transclusion of the button
{{||$:/core/ui/Buttons/edit}} <$link/>
But of course you will add your "link" button.
- Also A nice trick for external links is to consider allowing setting a
"target" with the href as you can open similar links in the same/window and
tab keeping the number of tabs low, I think shift or ctrl click, if not
r-click on most browsers overrides the behaviour into a new window.
- Another may be to use the icon set on a tiddler, if available,
otherwise a generic icon.
A smart design would allow both external and internal links to be honoured.
It would be nice for example if clicking the link on a to do task it would
open the to do task or project tiddler, that the task belonged, to rather
than the actual tiddler.
This is such a good idea, I may do it myself if no one including yourself
does it. :)
Regards
Tony
On Saturday, August 15, 2020 at 9:52:35 AM UTC+10, Der Shredder wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I aim to use a local TW5 as a knowledge base and interface to my document
> storage (PDF and HTML files). I would love to have the possibility to have
> some tiddlers that act like external links: If I link to them from other
> tiddlers, not the tiddler content should open, but an external URL (which
> might be specified via a 'field'). The advantage to just using an external
> link is that this tiddler could still have tags and other properties. For
> instance it could show up in a TableOfContents, but when I click that entry
> in the TOC, the external URL opens directly.
>
> Is such a behavior possible, or do you have any hints for me how I might
> be able to achieve this? I could just put a single link as the tiddler
> content, but I would like to save the additional clicks.
>
> I recognize that a problem might be how to edit the tiddler again when the
> redirection is automatically done. That is a good question. Maybe each such
> "redirection tiddler" could instead have a corresponding shadow tiddler
> that contains the redirection URL?
>
> I'm thankful for any help,
> Shredder
>
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