Correction to my last: dunno what caused the phenom i reported as #1 above, but i can no longer replicate that error; the new URL works fine. However: problem #2 reported above persists -and so my question about a potentially simpler solution to this two-headed problem stands.
/walt On Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 7:38:32 PM UTC+1 ludwa6 wrote: > Your spec ticks all the boxes, Anders... So i installed it, but not > getting the hoped-for result, alas. > > *What i did:* Changed URL on the "ProblemOfLinkRot" tiddler to > "SolutionToProblemOfLinkRot"; selected (modified) Permalink button in > pulldown tiddler menu -and it copied the composite URL, composed per your > specification, to my clipboard, which is also populating the new > "Permalink" field, i see. So far so good... But there is yet a problem > -two actually: > > 1. When i point my browser to the new URL- > > https://meta.tiddlyhost.com/#:[contains:permalink[solutiontoproblemoflinkrot-20210505114349833]] > > - it pulls a blank page. > 2. The old permalink- https://meta.tiddlyhost.com/#ProblemOfLinkRot > -brings me to a "Missing Tiddler" page (not surprising, since a tiddler > with that name indeed exists no more, having been overwritten by the > new... > And that old URL has no "contains" parameter in it). > > I hadn't really thought of this problem in terms of having two different > URLs pointing to the same tiddler; instead, i was hoping that a UID could > be assigned on tiddler creation (ideally a not-too-weird combo-key: > original name (guaranteed unique at the time, as you say) plus date would > work), which persists across any renaming event in the Permalink field, but > is not the title. Is there some problem w/ this simpler solution that i'm > not seeing? > > /walt > > > > On Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 5:12:15 PM UTC+1 Anjar wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Here is a demo for a new permalink button. It creates a new field called >> permalink and inserts <slugified title>-<created>. Since the title is >> unique at creation, this string should be unique (?). Further, it copies >> the appropriate link to the clipboard; >> https://tiddlywiki.com/#:[contains:permalink[new-tiddler-20200509141702846]]. >> >> If you change the title, the button appends the new <slugified >> title>-<created> to the permalink field so that both links go to the same >> tiddler >> >> Best, >> Anders >> >> -- 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/dba3fdf2-cec1-4b9e-9fcb-77aa57876971n%40googlegroups.com.
