I have figured out how to nest <$link><$view><$view/></$view></$link> so that I can use a field set up on the tiddler as the alternate title for it. Is there a macro or something that will do this a little easier?
I figured I’d ask before I tried to make one, having never done that before.
Hi,
the magic is called Alias ViewTemplate.json (881 Bytes) and it has been made I think by @twMat some years ago.
Create a field “alias” fill it with your desired title and !importand set Tiddlertitles do display as Links.
@Travis_Garris Of course it depends when and where you want this alternative title used.
You could spell out what you want a little more and perhaps we can hand you a custom solution.
If you want to use caption as title, so you can have two tiddlers have same title.
You can use TW5 CPL Wiki — TiddlyWiki5 Plugin Library for TiddlyWiki Chinese Communities plugin from CPL, you can switch language to English by click on the button on the left.
See TiddlyWiki-CPL: TiddlyWiki world of Google App Store! for how to use CPL.
You can always hack the tiddler $:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/title/default.
The default source code looks like this:
\whitespace trim
<h2 class="tc-title">
<$view field="title"/>
</h2>
You can change this to something like this:
\whitespace trim
<h2 class="tc-title">
<!-- check to see if your field exists -->
<$list filter="[<currentTiddler>has:field[your-field-name]">
<$view field="your-field-name"/>
</$list>
<!-- If your field doesn't exist, then display default tiddler title -->
<$list filter="[<currentTiddler>!has:field[your-field-name]">
<$view field="title"/>
</$list>
</h2>
This is the technique I used to display alternate titles.
As a disclaimer, it is not recommended to modify core tiddlers, like I have here, as it might be missed in an upgrade.
You can implement @RedAsset’s method without over writting core tiddlers now using the "View Template Title cascade.
Just ask if you want to know how to do this.
@JanJo, looking at some documentation for Alias ViewTemplate (Using Matt Lauber's Aliases plugin and displaying aliases as part of the current tiddler), I think this very cool, and will use it, but it doesn’t solve this problem.
What I want to do is link to an article titled Egya Dara, but have that link read as Duke Egya, but I don’t want to put
[[Duke Egya|Egya Dara]]
I have found a way to do it but I have to put this:
<$link to=“Egya Dara”><$view tiddler=“Egya Dara” field=“nameTitle”><$view tiddler=“Egya Dara” field=“title”/></$view></$link>
His title may change. He may one day become a King. On his entry, there is a field with Duke Egya in it.
I think @RedAsset has the method that I want. Is there something already built that does that or is my <$link><$view><$view> nest the best? @TW_Tones?
You might want to try a filter with the addprefix operator.
<$list filter="[[Egya Dara]addprefix[ ]addprefix[nameTitle]]"/>
Note: you would have to use the addprefix operator twice to add a space between the titleName and title. Maybe someone else has a method without adding the extra addprefix operator in there or you can add a space at the end of the titleName field, for example, your field might look like this:
titleName: "Duke "
You can ignore my last suggestion. I have come up with a better one for you.
First, download and import this macro to your TiddlyWiki: $__macros_title-link.js.json (994 Bytes).
Then refresh your TiddlyWiki.
After importing the macro, simply use this code:
<<link "Egya Dara">>
This will work with whatever tiddler title you put in there as long as the tiddler has the field called titleName, otherwise it will output just the tiddler title in a link.
The source code of that file looks like this:
/*\
title: $:/macros/title-link.js
type: application/javascript
\*/
(function() {
/*jslint node: true, browser: true */
/*global $tw: false */
"use strict";
exports.name = "link";
exports.params = [{
name: "link"
},
];
/*
Run the macro. Make sure it accepts the parameters you have defined above.
*/
exports.run = function(link) {
try {
return "<$link to='"+link+"'><$list filter='[["+link+"]has:field[titleName]]' variable='tiddler-title'><$view tiddler=<<tiddler-title>> field='titleName'/> </$list><$view tiddler='"+link+"' field='title'/></$link>";
} catch (err) {
console.error(err.stack)
return "(ERROR: " + err.message + ") ";
}
};
})();
If you are going to copy/paste that, make sure you have type set to application/javascript and a field called module-type and set that to macro. Name the macro tiddler whatever you want.
Actually this thread has given rise to a little more reflection on the subject of alternative titles. While we do have various ways to handle them including macros, plugins and even bespoke JS I do think it is such a fundamental need it deserves some research and refining.
I do favor the use of filters in “filtered transclusions” {{{ filter }}} if they are easy to read, but if you want to use the same result multiple times t can be used to set a variable.
<$text text={{{ filter }}}/> to stop them making links, I wish there was a symbolic way to invoke the text widget (and wikify widget)Remember the following when seeking an alternative title;
I will come back when I have something more helpful
Bespoke macro for me? Wow, thank you @RedAsset. I appreciate it.
@TW_Tones and @JanJo, I didn’t quite understand the uni-link plugin, but I got it working, and it works. I was thrown by the alias functionality. The uni-link plugin seems to do two things, and I only needed the one.
I just thought I would point out the 5.3.x “functions” which are filters now allow us to take a filter and generate a result without needing to wrap the result in a text widget to avoid linkification.
+[join[ ]] in your filter, or if you want a list of titles, use [+format:titlelist[]+join[]]
If you want the result of a filter, or a string to be passed as an attribute value, also look at the new backtick method Substituted Attribute Values
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