How do I create a new card type?

[Matthias Berth]

Hello,

I am looking into Wagn for making a light weight intranet with some structured data. For this I want to have card types, e.g. a Contact with attributes such as name, phone, address. I have read all the relevant documentation I could find, but I am still stuck.

I am running the gem version of Wagn standalone.

Here is what I did:

1) created a new card of type "Card type", called it Contact. I can add a description.

2) When I look at the "Contact" card's menu, I see Edit, but no menu item "structure"

3) I tried edit -> content, and put  {{+phone}} inside the Contact description. that did not help.

What is the normal procedure to create a new Card type?

thanks in advance

Matthias

[Philipp Kühl]

Hi Matthias,

if I understand your question correctly, you would like to define a structure rule for all cards of type "Contact".

I think the easiest way is to go to the "Contact" card and choose from the menu advanced -> rules -> All "Contact" cards.

Make your changes there in the "structure" section (eg. add {{+phone}, {{+name}}, etc } and choose as set "All Contact cards".

Some technical details that might help to clarify your problems: 

There is a difference between defining a structure for the card "Contact" and a structure for all cards of card type "Contact". 

The former is stored in "Contact+*structure", the latter in "Contact+*type+*structure". So an alternative solution is to edit these cards directly.

Because the card "Contact" is of type "Cardtype" there is already a default structure for this card defined in "Cardtype+*type+*structure" (it adds the description field you came across and a list of all cards of that type).

At your point 2) when you had a look at the edit menu of "Contact" there should have been the option to edit this structure but it would have been the wrong structure anyway.

Hope this helps,

Philipp

[Ethan McCutchen]

Hi Matthias,

I apologize for the slow reply; I'm currently traveling and will have limited email for the next few days.

To add a structure rule, go to "advanced > rules" and then navigate to the structure section.  Once you've created a structure rule, the "edit > structure" option will appear.

If you have more questions, please consider adding a support ticket; that way the answers will get added to a more public repository. 

Hope that helps!

- Ethan

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[Matthias Berth]

Hi Ethan,

thanks a lot, I'll try that.

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[Ethan McCutchen]

Sorry for this duplicate response folks.  It's my fault, not Philipp's.  He actually sent this message before mine, but I just now "approved" his.

I've missed more than one of these messages needing approval lately, because they were going to the wrong folder, but I think it's fixed now.  My bad!

Fwiw, we're set up with message moderation to keep out spam, not to micromanage discussions.  Once I know someone's not a spammer – which I think is pretty safe to say with Philipp ;) – I "approve all future posts".

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[Matthias Berth]

OK, I got it to work, thanks!

Matthias