Freelinks issue

#1

I’m a recent adopter, and I’ve configured a Tiddlywiki with quite a few plugins. An important one for what i want to do is Freelinks, and another is TOC-Generic, which adds a dropdown to all tiddlers for references that lists tags/freelinks/links

The issue I’m experiencing is that When i use a term that is freelinked, the freelink DOES show up in my editor preview, and DOES show up in my TOC-Generic reference list on the freelinked tiddler, but it DOES NOT show up as a freelink in the body of the Tiddler In view mode, nor does it show up in its own TOC-Generic references as freelinking to the tiddler i freelinked.

Just wondering if anyone knows why this might be happening, or where to start fiddling to see if i can get them to reappear. I’ve tried disabling and/or uninstalling plugins im not using, including TOC-Generic, to fix this, but no luck yet.

#2

Hi Alex,
Welcome to the forum.

That’s strange. Which TW version do you use?

You could try the following. – First of all make a backup :wink:

  • Then download empty.html from tiddlywiki.com
  • Import the latest freelinks plugin from the ControlPanel → Plugins → Get More Plugins dialogue.
  • Import or create some of your tiddlers, that use freelinks into the new wiki.
  • Make sure freelinks works in the tiddler body.
    • If there is a problem, there may be a core bug.
  • Then import 3rd party plugins into the new wiki. One by one. Save and reload in between

This may be away to see where the problem comes from.

Hope that helps.
-mario

#3

Alright so far the tiddlers display freelinks fine in the empty wiki on their own, so I’ll start testing plugins, thanks for your help!
Oh and I’m on 5.3.5.

#4

So i’ve tried adding in all my plugins, plus a few stylesheets i borrowed from Giffmex’s “Toggle!”. Still not able to duplicate whats happening. I even tried downloading and then deleting some plugins i’d downloaded and deleted, in case they may have left behind tiddlers.

I also have a ton of backups and I managed to find one from a week ago that doesnt have this behavior (the earliest one i have that i havent deleted), but i can’t figure out anything different between it and the one after it, or my current version.

Its frustrating, because the problem is too small to justify migrating my new tiddlers to an older backup, but just big enough i don’t feel i can ignore it, even if i have the more important half of the functionality i need from it (Freelinks showing in TOC-generic)

EDIT:

Okay, odd update: I remembered i had a few other tiddlers that wouldn’t show up in plugins, luckily i kept notes on which ones.

When i added TidBitz: http://tidbitz.tiddlyspot.com/
I got the same result, my freelinks were no longer links, but they still showed up in TOC-Generic.

HOWEVER… I deleted the additional Tiddlers it added and nothing happened. I looked into it and it looks like it copied in its own modified $:/core/ui/pagetemplate/story and $:/core/ui/Viewtemplate. So i guess i will check if i can easily replace these, and if not, I’ll look into editing them to fix the problem

EDIT 2: I DID IT! hopefully this won’t cause any other issues but everything seems to be working for now. Thanks for your guidance, i really just needed somewhere to start!

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#6

Good news and thanks for sharing back the solution.

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