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Rails application for creating and hosting TiddlyWiki sites, plus resources for deploying it to https://tiddlyhost.com/
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Feature request: Clone wiki #198

Closed twMat closed 2 years ago

twMat commented 2 years ago

Shortly after the noob stage, a TW user identifies "favourite plugins, settings and customizations" that he wants for all his wikis. I dare say this happens to all TW users. And those that go deeper into tiddlyverse probably develop fine tuned recurring setups (e.g public vs private wikis, work vs non-work etc). But to manually drag'n drop plugins + modified shadow tids and other tidbits is a rather annoying task.

Therefore, I wonder if TH could feature a simple "Clone wiki" feature in the Your sites page. It could appear as a menu option in the "Actions" button and it can lead to the same page as the "Create site" button, i.e to register a new TH site, but instead of an empty wiki it is a clone.

Thoughts?

simonbaird commented 2 years ago

Yeah, I like this suggestion.

saqimtiaz commented 2 years ago

There is some slight overlap with the goal of #192 which is about being able to clone any TiddlyWiki by adding the appropriate query string to a TiddlyHost URL.

simonbaird commented 2 years ago

See also https://github.com/simonbaird/tiddlyhost/discussions/230#discussioncomment-3031681 .

twMat commented 2 years ago

Bump.

This would also be an appropriate feature for the Create New site. Either in the Advanced or as a step after the user clicks the "Create site" button, i.e to select one of the existing wikis that is then merely copied instead of an empty one being instated.

simonbaird commented 2 years ago

Yeah, I think the "clone from other site" could probably fit in with the new UI introduced in #233.

simonbaird commented 2 years ago

Actually I'm getting two different ideas mixed together here. Let's start with the simple clone option from the actions menu as originally suggested.

simonbaird commented 2 years ago

@twMat FYI I just pushed a build with the new "Clone" option in the action menu. Give it a try and let me know if you find any problems.

simonbaird commented 2 years ago

I called it "Clone" rather than "Duplicate". The clone option sends you to the create form where you can manually choose the name, rather than give it a name automatically like "copy-of-foo" or whatever. Note that only the content is cloned, the other settings you have to set manually before creating.

twMat commented 2 years ago

Wunderbar! I did a quick test and it seems to work as intended. I think you struck the perfect balance in the UI - the "Clone" as one of the Actions, which straight away sends the user to the create form, where it is again clear that one is creating a clone. Well done!

I think this is worth announcing somewhere, and a quick mention that this enables you to, for example, create empty "favourite setups".