Post script,
If links could contain filters, a click would open all tiddlers in that
filter, and/or their external links, you could open multiple tiddlers/tabs.
Regards
Tones
On Saturday, August 15, 2020 at 10:35:31 PM UTC+10, TonyM wrote:
>
> 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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