I am looking for a mechanism whereby I can load my data JSON tiddlers from an external file at load time, a bit like an ‘include’ facility. This then stores and allows manipulation outside of tiddlywiki with the current set of JSON tiddlers loaded when the tiddlywiki loads.
My reasoning is that my environment is both a content management system an an online access system. TW handles the second with ease but I am concerned about it handling for first. From my, limited, experience with TW, I am of the opinion that TW is a single user at a time editing environment whereas our guns wiki could be maintained by many people at the same time.
I have written a JSON editing program that takes all the tiddlers for a single gun exported out of TW into JSON and allows its editing and then re-importing back in to TW. That works, at least in test mode but still remains more cumbersome than I would like.
My thinking about the JSON tiddlers held externally to the TW is that this set could be hosted on a CMS platform, like Dropbox or Google Drive, edited by anyone at any time and then loaded into the TW at run time.
In a worst case scenario, I could envision the JSON tiddler set being imported back into the runtime TW by a ‘wiki master’ at some time they determine the TW should be updated. I do this now with a TW of artworks for which I have created a Filemaker Pro database for maintenance and a script for exporting into JSON followed by a TW import.
All thoughts and suggestions from the group appreciated.
bobj