Amazing: Adding topics from tiddlywiki.com/static to browse from within my own TW instance is a cinch, i find. Have added an entry for "WikiText", and now i can drill down in 2 clicks for a quick how-to that saves me a good minute or few of context-switching penalty, that will quickly amount to hours of time saved. Even if that's all we do with it, i can't imagine why anyone would NOT such a documentation utility in their wiki. Certainly i'll be including this in all my instances from now on.
Now going further: I'm wondering how this might be adapted to other reference sites, even if non-tiddly; could this be possible? I cloned the tiddler from your latest upload, @Charlie, to see if i can adapt it to pull from my most-commonly referenced site: wikipedia.org. Called my new tiddler "Wikipedia", changed every instance where your code calls "TW Ref" to a "Wikipedia" call, and swapped in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ as the base URL -deleting the suffix .html, since wikipedia doesn't use that, interestingly. Now i've got a "Wikipedia" tab in my sidebar, with a new pulldown list for the 3 Wikipedia topics i added, so the UI works fine... But this new utility pulls no content, save the error msg: "It may have been moved, edited or deleted." So i'm wondering: is there a bug in my adaptation of code appended below? Or is there some more fundamental problem -like maybe it only works with a TW static site? /walt 8<-------(snip)------->8 \define AddTopic( topic ) <option value={{{ [[$topic$]split[ ]join[%2520]addprefix[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ }}}>$topic$</option> \end <$select tiddler={{Wikipedia!!title}} field="curr-topic"> <!--🔴 AddTopic takes as input tiddler titles from wikipedia.org and creates a link to same tiddler at the static site. Add/modify/remove items as per the following three examples Order the topics as per your preferences Add "optgroup elements to group entries" --> <<AddTopic "TiddlyWiki">> <<AddTopic "WikiWikiWeb">> <<AddTopic "Project_Xanadu">> </$select> <a href={{Wikipedia!!curr-topic}} title="Open web page in a separate window/tab" target="_blank">link</a> <iframe src={{Wikipedia!!curr-topic}} height="500" width="100%"></iframe> 8<-------(snip)------->8 On Friday, April 23, 2021 at 6:32:07 PM UTC+1 cj.v...@gmail.com wrote: > G'day walt (I'm not sure I'm comfortable writing slash walt ...) > > Oh no, not from TiddlyWiki.com. > > From tiddlywiki.com/static/ > > So the static pages exported to TiddlyWiki.com/static, not theTiddlyWiki > instance itself (that you get at tiddlywiki.com). > > Embedding content from a whole TiddlyWiki instance would be way too slow > performance-wise for this kid. > > Individual static pages on request, that's pretty fast. > > Please, do take a look at the last attachment I posted in this thread > yesterday (April 22): unzip that attachment, import the tiddler into any > tiddlywiki (I like to try things right in tiddlywiki.com). > > If you have any questions about the content in that tiddler or how to add > other items in that select widget, get back to me/us here.... > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/7764700c-1cb5-4419-b2b3-cd9c811397b1n%40googlegroups.com.
