postkevone
commented
3 years ago This sounds like a very specific implementation that doesn't match the way tiddly research was meant to be used. Adding a setting to add a field to the reference plugin would also mean that a user should be able to add more fields, as restricting that setting to only one field doesn't seem like a great approach. I am sorry but I will not add this feature in the reference plugin because it is very specific, however if you can provide a copy of your wiki I can help you achieve what you need by posting the code you need.
keelancook
It would be great if I had the option in your references configuration tiddler to choose a field other that text for mentions. Configuration would be (1) identify the field and (2) check yes for mentions in that field.
Use Case: I'm using the bibtex plugin to easily import tiddlers for specific book and journal articles that I cite. One of the fields for this is a keywords field. This keywords field has the names of certain "topic tiddlers" that are broad topics for my research. For instance, one of them is "Urban Research". I already have a topic tiddler of that title, and many of my imported references have this as a keyword. If I could chose in your configuration tiddler to have mentions in that field show up, that would populate all of my topic tiddlers with any mentions from bibtex references.
At current, I have to move them into the text field for that to happen.