See Getting backlinks from other fields, specifically list fields

Folks, I have discussed the reason for this request in a few discussions of late, however I will make a simple request here, and I hope whoever reads it may understand the current mechanisiums in the core to be able to guide me on finding a solution.

Currently if one enters the following in the text field of a tiddler CamelCase [[link me]] with enable “Enable automatic CamelCase linking” active. The tiddlywiki core finds these and these titles become found using links, backlinks and missing tiddler lists.

Getting backlinks from other fields, specificaly list fields

I would like to be able to rule in one or more additional fields such as list, flag-list or an additional multiline text field such as notes (if it existed) for this treatment. Its fine if all that is returned is the title of the tiddler in which the listed title is mentioned, which is all that the existing method does for the text field.

More advanced;
Perhaps in future we could find the tiddlername/fieldname the title is specified in or lookup the [[pretty link|for tiddlername]] with backlinks all the better, but for now all I want is the titles in one or more additional list fields to be added to the tiddler store, missing tiddlers, links and back links.

  • Can you help me?
  • Even if only to identify where this happens in the core?

[Edited] these are what TiddlyWiki documents as “hard links”

Ideas;

  • A new widget that lets us enrole other titles (found in list fields) into the title store, caches, missing and back links, through a global procedure. Ideal can be applied to all instances of a given fieldname in the wiki.

I think the relink-plugin is needed to handle more advanced usecases as you describe.

The problem is. – It’s complex and performance sensitive. Backlinks and Backtransclusions use the cached parse-tree to find TW wikilinks. Fields are not parsed upfront, since we do not know if they should be. So that has a high risk to be slow.

IMO @Flibbles has done an incredible job with the relink plugin.

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