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In Wagn, pretty much everything is a card:
Wagn organizes information into lots of interconnected cards. If you've used wikis before, you might be wondering, "Why don't you just call them pages?" There ... Tickets relevant to :
cardYou may have noticed that you can open and close cards by clicking on their title (or the triangle beside the title). And if you're really paying attention, you'll see that some cards are included within other cards.
Wagn cards can include other cards inside them, which opens up several possibilities:... Tickets relevant to :
- referring to one card (like an address or an
When a card is open, you can see what is called its type to the right of its title.
Cardtypes provide control over formatting, connection options (?), and some other aspects of display. Every card has a cardtype. Wagn comes with several ... Tickets relevant to :
These types really become significant once you start trying to organize your information. We call Wagn's unique approach to structure "connecting cards" or "plus cards" -- joining two cards together with a plus sign to form a new third card.
Also known as connections or connection cards, plus cards are one of the core innovations of Wagn. The basic idea is that any two ... To see a card's existing connections, click on the Related tab and look under Connections: +*plus cards: -- the connections themselves +*plus parts: -- the ... Tickets relevant to :
Inclusion, types, and plus cards are fairly simple tools, but they open up some very powerful dynamic possibilities. For example, formatting uses those three elemental tools to create an elegant content management system. Formatting allows you to create default content and cardtypes, format page layouts, and more:
What are Forms?
Forms are patterns of content. Every day we encounter lots of formatted information: weather forecasts include temperature, cloudiness, humidity and so ... Tickets relevant to :
And Wagn becomes a much more powerful management tool once you begin to understand its nuanced permissioning system:
Wagn's permissioning system has 3 layers: individual card settings (via the options tab), default card settings (via format cards), and global settings (via the global ... Tickets relevant to :
Star Cards
Star Cards are cards that Wagn gives special meaning. They're called "star cards" because their names begin with an asterisk. For example, we refer to the card named *sidebar as "star sidebar".
Some of the other star card also relate to customization:
Deck customization
Name of this Wagn's home page: *home Site logo:Favicon for web browser address bars and tabs:
Sidebar: Documentation Community Hosting and Consulting Download Request an invitation to Wagn.org TinyMCE confuguration: ...
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If you make a right name form that's a Search card (using _self to refer to an assumed including card), then ... Tickets relevant to :
Note: Temporarily broken as of Wagn 0.10 Whenever you're editing cards in Wagn, a few times a minute it will save a ... Tickets relevant to :
We don't yet have a way to backup or export from Wagn, but we're working on it - see the tickets below. We do ... Tickets relevant to :
Wagn organizes information into lots of interconnected cards. If you've used wikis before, you might be wondering, "Why don't you just call them pages?" There ... Tickets relevant to :
Cardtypes provide control over formatting, connection options (?), and some other aspects of display. Every card has a cardtype. Wagn comes with several ... Tickets relevant to :
Wagn lets you enable commenting on a card, even users who may not have permission to edit it. To let someone who is signed in be able to comment on a card, go to it's Options tab, click on ... Tickets relevant to :
With Wagn's inclusions, you can construct web addresses that are context-sensitive, drawing on all or part of the name of the card the ... Tickets relevant to :
Custom edit instructions can be specified for cardtypes and for relative-included cards. Separate instructions can be specified for when such cards ... Tickets relevant to :
You can ask for specific information when users request accounts, and have that information stored in Wagn and even show up automatically on their ... Both requesting information of new users, and having it show up on their user card, make use of formatting:
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Favicons are the little icons that appear in browser tabs, and Wagn lets you set yours to whatever you like Simply create a *favicon card, set its cardtype to image, and upload your desired icon. Tickets relevant to :
What are Forms?
Forms are patterns of content. Every day we encounter lots of formatted information: weather forecasts include temperature, cloudiness, humidity and so ... Tickets relevant to :
Google Analytics offers statistics on usage of your website. Wagn makes it easy to take advantage of this. To get a Google Analytics key ... Create a *Google Analytics Key card on your Wagn, set its cardtype to PlainText, and enter your Google Analytics Key. Your ... Tickets relevant to :
Wagn lets you create your own help text, which will show up when people are creating or editing cards. How do you do this? By ... Simply plus a cardtype to *edit, and in that new card, type the help text you'd like to have ... Tickets relevant to :
Wagn cards can include other cards inside them, which opens up several possibilities:
- referring to one card (like an address or an
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You can have Wagn request custom new user information when people request an invitation. Tickets relevant to :
Wagn makes it very easy for you to link to other cards in Wagn, or to other websites.
Links within Wagn
To make a link to another card in Wagn, just put the link between double brackets. For example, typing this: [[Wagn]]
Wagn's permissioning system has 3 layers: individual card settings (via the options tab), default card settings (via format cards), and global settings (via the global ... Tickets relevant to :
Also known as connections or connection cards, plus cards are one of the core innovations of Wagn. The basic idea is that any two ... To see a card's existing connections, click on the Related tab and look under Connections: +*plus cards: -- the connections themselves +*plus parts: -- the ... Tickets relevant to :
As with most wikis, Wagn can list recently changed cards - just click on the Recent link at the top of every page.
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In addition to renaming cards, many wikis allow you to have one card redirect to another. Wagn doesn't do this (yet, but see ... If you want to be able to tag something with nvc, but have it show up with the content of Nonviolent Communication, just edit the ... Tickets relevant to :
On every card you can click on the Related tab at the top-right corner of the card to see a variety of related cards. In ...
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Relative inclusion is very similar to inclusion, but reference connection cards based on the including card. So: {{+phone}} ...includes the card: +phone (right here it ... Tickets relevant to :
Wagn lets you rename cards without breaking plus cards or links. That is, when you rename a card Wagn offers to ... Tickets relevant to :
Wagn keeps a history of every change made to every card, including who made the change and when it occured, and lets you roll a ...
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You can have any card show up in the sidebar of every page.
- Open *sidebar (included below for your convenience) and click on Edit.
- Include one or more cards you want in the sidebar
Any card with four or more headings (see layout and styling) automatically gets a table of contents at the top of the card, ... Tickets relevant to :
TinyMCE is the text editor we're using as of Wagn 0.10. It is extremely customizeable, and a lot of that customization can be ... Tickets relevant to :
You want to look at and create information in whatever way works for you, and Wagn lets you do that with many special URLs (web ... To make links that do simple searches, replace "/wagn/cardname" in a regular address with "/search/what+you're+looking+for". To make links that create new cards of a ... Tickets relevant to :
WQL, pronounced "wuckle", stands for Wagn Query Language -- the only query language based on organic wiki structure. WQL provides syntax for finding lists of ... Tickets relevant to :
If you're not finding what you want, either we haven't documented it yet (ask around the Community) or you may have thought of something new. Check out features and fixes we're planning or considering on Tickets.
