Thanks werner. I will build my own notes after trying this thanks Regards Tony
On Monday, 7 September 2020 at 20:36:23 UTC+10 Werner wrote: > Tony, > > here's how I did it: > > - D&D installed the plugin in question. In my case, it was A. Aldrich's > Tables plugin. > - The result was two files in my tiddlers > directory: $__plugins_aaldrich_tables.json > and $__plugins_aaldrich_tables.json.meta. > - Under my > c:\<username>\appdata\roaming\npm\node-modules\tiddlywiki\plugins > directory, I now created two directories aaldrich and aaldrich\tables. > - Copied the .json file into the latter and renamed it to plugin.info. > - Opened the json.meta file and copied the contents ahead of the > "tiddlers" key in the plugin.info file. > - Added proper JSON formatting (quotation marks and commas) to the new > entries. If you have any wikitext plugin installed, you can use its > plugin.info file as a template. > - Deleted the plugin from my wiki to get rid of the two above files > - Added the missing plugin information in tiddlywiki.info in my wiki's > home directory. > - Stopped and restarted the server. > > Voilà. > > Best, Werner > > TW Tones schrieb am Samstag, 5. September 2020 um 08:33:37 UTC+2: > >> Mark, >> >> Are there instructions anywhere to take an in wiki plugin and make it a >> server plugin (file?). >> >> Regards >> Tones >> >> >> On Saturday, 5 September 2020 06:27:02 UTC+10, Mark S. wrote: >>> >>> Let me add, that there are two ways to add a plugin folder. >>> >>> The first is to add it to just a single wiki, in the plugins folder of >>> your tiddly data folder. >>> >>> The second is to add it to your node.js master copy of tiddlywiki. >>> >>> The advantage of the first method is that the plugins will continue to >>> be there as you upgrade, and it's pretty easy. >>> >>> The advantage of the second method is that once you have the plugins in >>> place, they are available to all your wikis just by insert some lines into >>> tiddlywiki.info. >>> >>> The disadvantage of the second method is that you have to find where >>> your master copy of TW is (On Windows, the path to the default TW version >>> is buried pretty deep.), and, possibly, your plugins won't survive when you >>> upgrade (don't know for sure on this point.) Certainly if you relink to a >>> different TW directory structure, your personal plugins aren't going to be >>> there automatically. >>> >>> On Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 4:56:07 PM UTC-7, TW Tones wrote: >>>> >>>> Mark, >>>> >>>> That is possibly the clearest description so far. We need to document >>>> this a bit better. >>>> >>>> I admit I am no expert in this yet, and I hope if what I state is >>>> incorrect someone will contradict me. >>>> >>>> I would add to your points, as I understand it, that if installed in >>>> node apparently they are available to all wikis within Node such as under >>>> Bob, but installed by Drag and drop they become tiddlers installed in the >>>> specific wiki. >>>> >>>> You can see that except for the exceptions Mark mentions, drag and drop >>>> can be an intentional approach to installing a different set of plugins in >>>> different wikis. >>>> >>>> Despite this I am not sure what happens to to make correctly installed >>>> server plugins visible in the wikis below. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Tony >>>> >>>> >>>> On Friday, 4 September 2020 00:56:10 UTC+10, Mark S. wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I think it means there some plugins meant for node.js that need to be >>>>> installed in a directory (maybe because they need to communicate directly >>>>> with the operating system). >>>>> >>>>> For most 3rd party plugins I think you're OK with d&d. But if you have >>>>> a plugin that needs to directly communicate with the OS or over the >>>>> internet, then you will need to install local plugin directories. >>>>> >>>>> If you have official plugins, then you can "install" them just by >>>>> listing them in the tiddlywiki.info file. You do not want there to >>>>> also be a drag-and-drop plugin version of them because the d&d version >>>>> will >>>>> block the latest copy of the official version. The idea is that your >>>>> official plugins will automatically be upgraded on node.js when you >>>>> upgrade >>>>> your tiddlywiki installation on node.js. >>>>> >>>>> Having said that, if you're using code-mirror, and your drag-and-drop >>>>> version seems to be working, maybe just stick with it for the current >>>>> generation. It seemed to me that there was some internal inconsistency >>>>> with >>>>> the next gen of code-mirror. Whenever I tried to do the official install, >>>>> things broke. But that's just my thinking. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Good luck! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 5:49:25 AM UTC-7, [email protected] >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> So I have my nodejs server up and running, but I did not want to >>>>>> start an entirely new wiki, instead I wanted to import my old wiki and >>>>>> continue using that. I imported it via just drag and dropping my .html >>>>>> file >>>>>> onto the newly made empty wiki. It imported everything just fine and >>>>>> everything seems to work ok. >>>>>> >>>>>> However, I noticed that installing plugins in nodejs >>>>>> <https://tiddlywiki.com/static/Installing%2520custom%2520plugins%2520on%2520Node.js.html>server >>>>>> >>>>>> should *not *be done by drag and dropping them as individual >>>>>> tiddlers but instead you should make plugins folder in the server and >>>>>> put >>>>>> them there and tell in the tiddlywiki.info file what plugins to >>>>>> load. It is said that: >>>>>> >>>>>> > Note that including a plugin as an ordinary tiddler (e.g. by >>>>>> dragging and dropping a plugin into the browser) will result in the >>>>>> plugin >>>>>> only being active in the browser, and not available under Node.js. >>>>>> >>>>>> So what does this *actually *mean? All my old plugins were installed >>>>>> this way when I was not using nodejs. They still seem to work fine. >>>>>> Should >>>>>> I remove all my plugins installed with drag and drop and install them >>>>>> manually as per the link? >>>>>> >>>>> -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/10eb4f1b-db8a-416e-943b-3f4c7d4c69cen%40googlegroups.com.
