Read only mode: how to hide content from tiddler body?

[Scott_Sauyet]

@Odin

My players expressed they they struggle finding stuff, now the wiki is expanding and I am also running into the limits of the static html exports. So ideally I want to keep a interactive version of the wiki that is readonly for my players. And then a edit version of the wiki for myself.

I don’t know if my techniques would suit you. It depends on whether you only want to keep the extra information from casually wandering eyes or to ensure it’s not visible to a TW-sophisticated hacker.

Mine only handles the former. But it’s worked well for me across many projects. You can download the following and drag it to a wiki:

ReadOnlySettings.json (4.1 KB)

You will need to save and reload, since there’s a startup action included. This offers a read-only mode and turns it on by default if I’m not running in Node. I can toggle that with the keystroke CTRL-SHIFT-/ (or because that may not work on certain keyboards, with CTRL-SHIFT-1.) So when I build and deploy my wiki to GH Pages or similar, it’s read-only mode, but I can easily toggle into edit mode.

Yes, this is security-by-obscurity. I would not do this if I was worried about someone peeking behind the curtain. But that’s not my concern; it may be yours. Instead, I simply don’t want to confuse users with things that seem to offer them the ability to change but which they can’t update on my read-only servers.

That code really needs to be updated. We discussed this in #12964. It shouldn’t be difficult, but I’ve never gotten back to it. The code works fine for me, though.

@Odin

To keep secrets out of the static file export i used this filter, to write secret info within the tiddler body, so it is part of the text flow for me:

<!-- Text within this list will be hidden in the eport  -->
<$list filter="[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]" variable=0>

this is a secret line within the text

</$list>

I find it a little simpler to write a custom widget to do the same thing:

title: $:/_/my/widget/edit-only
tags: $:/tags/Global

\widget $edit.only()
<% if [{$:/status/IsReaderMode}!match[yes]] %>
<$slot $name="ts-raw" />
<% endif %>
\end

Then it can be used like this:

This is <$edit.only>NOT </$edit.only>in read-only mode. 

<$edit.only>

Handles block mode (if you start with a newline),

[[Links|https://google.com]], and //so on// ''work'' as expected.
</$edit.only>

Read-only

Edit mode