Changing link destination in Tiddler tag on static site?

#1

In the static build of my wiki, the tiddler tags aren’t very useful: they’re yellow pills with a pointer cursor on hover but the click does nothing. Can I update the static build so that the tag links to a page that matches the tag name?

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#2

You need to find the template that generates the static tiddlers and change the way it handles tags. It would be better to clone the static tiddler export and create a seperate custom export.

  • I think you can make use of a different template if generating from the command line with node.

I have done this in the past so the links in static tiddlers open in the parent wiki, not open seperate static tiddlers.

#3

I found $:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/tags (GitHub) with the default tag output, calling $:/core/ui/TagTemplate (GitHub).

I modifed $:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/tags to use tv-config-static to conditionally show a different template when we’re in static rendering mode:

\whitespace trim
<$list filter="[<tv-config-static>match[yes]]" variable="ignore">
<$list filter="[all[current]tags[]sort[title]]" template="$:/custom/StaticTagTemplate"/>
</$list>
<$list filter="[<tv-config-static>!match[yes]]" variable="ignore">
<$reveal type="nomatch" stateTitle=<<folded-state>> text="hide" tag="div" retain="yes" animate="yes">
<div class="tc-tags-wrapper"><$list filter="[all[current]tags[]sort[title]]" template="$:/core/ui/TagTemplate" storyview="pop"/></div>
</$reveal>
</$list>

$:/custom/StaticTagTemplate is pretty simple:

\whitespace trim
<$link><$macrocall $name="tag-pill" tag=<<currentTiddler>>/></$link>

This seems to do what I want.

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