The first half of that task would be to change the view templates. The view templates themselves are made up of tiddlers. If you type $:/tags/ViewTemplate under the shadow tab of the advanced search you will see the various component tiddlers listed.
There are various approaches, but this is a quick-and-dirty approach that may be good enough for most uses. Click on and then edit $:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/subtitle <https://tiddlywiki.com/#%24%3A%2Fcore%2Fui%2FViewTemplate%2Fsubtitle> . Although this tiddler is called 'subtitle', it doesn't display a subtitle, or any title. We will make the "subtitle" tiddler display the title field. Just put | <$view field="title"/> to the left of the the date view field. This will add the title to the tiddler subtitle line, but in subdued gray text. Now click on (from the advanced search again) $:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/title and open it for editing. Change down below where it says: <$view field="title"/> to <$view field="subtitle"><$view field="title"/></$view What this does is create a cascade. If "subtitle" is available, it will display subtitle. Otherwise it will display the title field as a fall back. Notice that I'm using "subtitle" and not "caption". The thing is, the caption field should always be kept short so that it can be used on menus. The subtitle can be much longer if you want. Save and close the tiddlers. Now whenever you add a "subtitle" field to a tiddler and populate it, the contents of that field should appear as the main tiddler title. Oh, and as always, be sure to make a backup of your TW file before trying any of this. Maybe by tomorrow someone else will have beat me to the next task -- changing the edit templates ;-) -- Mark On Friday, April 20, 2018 at 11:49:11 AM UTC-7, Miroslav Kalous wrote: > > A little detour from the title/GUID debate: > > I was wondering, and perhaps I'm not the only one, if someone has already > tried to *use uni-link together with modification that displays caption > of a tiddler as its name *(effectively using caption as title-shown but > not changing title-proper)? I mean what Mark S. hinted upon: "Perhaps the > ViewTemplate could be modified to also use the caption or subtitle, > reducing confusion." > > I think uni-link is a big help with link breakage issue. But I'd also like > to view or edit a tiddler while seeing its new title, meaning caption. > Otherwise I am not sure uni-link would trump the > create-newly-titled-tiddler-and-translude-its-previous-version-into-it or > the clone-existing-tiddler-change-its-name-and-link-its-older-version-to-it > workarounds for me. > > Though I don't have the least idea if such a modification of the tiddler's > name behaviour is possible or how difficult it would be to make it. Thanks > for any suggestions. > > > On Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 6:07:34 PM UTC+2, Mark S. wrote: >> >> If you're using the uni-link plugin, it will automatically change how >> your links are rendered to match either the caption or the subtitle of the >> linked tiddler. You can then leave the tiddler alone, never renaming it but >> only changing "caption" or "subtitle" if you want to change how it looks >> when linked. >> >> Basically, it allows you to use the title as a true immutable ID, and the >> caption or subtitle as the title. But it enables better performance -- it >> doesn't guarantee it. It's a partial solution because it doesn't fix >> existing broken links. You will have to find and fix them. There's also >> nothing to prevent you from forgetting and changing a tiddler title. The >> title of the tiddler that appears will be different than the title someone >> clicked on. Perhaps the ViewTemplate could be modified to also use the >> caption or subtitle, reducing confusion. >> >> -- Mark >> >> On Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 8:28:44 AM UTC-7, Brady77 wrote: >>> >>> Hi Josiah, >>> >>> I appreciate your willingness to help. Let's say I will generate some >>> unique ID for tiddler title. Next I use the "caption" field to as a real >>> tiddler title. Could you tell me what files to change so I can use it as >>> you suggest? I'm afraid that current tiddler title is hardcoded in many >>> places. I'm also awaiting Mario's reply regarding the "partial" solution by >>> using the "caption" field. >>> >>> Petr >>> >> -- 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 post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/6eef3b76-2000-44a3-9ba2-1c51a1a6d669%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
