Feature Reference

Wagn lets you organize information with cards.

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Wagn organizes everything into cards.     (Watch this video with subtitles)
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Names

Every card has a unique name.  Some name-related features:

Plus cards are cards with a "+" in the name.   The plus sign divides card names into left and right parts.  Creating a
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Contextual (or "relative") names are card names that can be interpreted differently based on context.   Contextual names are translated into "absolute"
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Virtual cards are special plus cards that are configured to generate special content based on their names.  They're not actually stored in
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Wagn lets you rename cards without breaking plus cards or links. That is, when you rename a card, Wagn finds
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With some card types, you may be not want to have to think about naming each one.  The *autoname setting
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Types

Every card has also a type.

Card Types are a powerful tool for organizing information on Wagn. Every card has a type, and that type shapes what kind
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Some special types:

Basic    
The default cardtype.  Uses a simple wysiwyg editor.  Type not displayed beside name in card headers.   All Basic ...

HTML    
HTML cards open up a world of web power for Wagn. For a few examples including embedding a Twitter feed, chat, and video, see ...

Card Types are a powerful tool for organizing information on Wagn. Every card has a type, and that type shapes what kind
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Pointer    
Pointer cards let you create and maintain lists of cards.   They are a key tool in Wagneering, ...

Image    
To use a photograph or picture or any kind of image in Wagn:
  1. Click here to create an image card. (Any way you
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File    
On Wagn you upload files to File cards, then include the cards wherever you want a link to the file to appear. ...

User    
People with accounts generally have a User card. When you are signed in, you'll see a link to your User card toward the ...

Role    
Roles can be thought of as groups of users, particularly for the purpose of granting permissions. Three roles exist in every ...

Set    
A set is a card that defines a group of cards.     Any given card belongs to multiple sets. For example, ...

Setting    
Settings control various options about how a card looks and behaves. Each card's Options tab has a "settings" subtab that ...

 

Accounts

A card can be associated with a sign-in account.

Wagn's permissions system uses 5 settings: *create, *read, *update, *delete, and *comment
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Editing

Cards are very simple to create, edit, and delete.  Some useful editing-related features:

Cards can include other cards inside them.  Inclusion has many benefits:
  • Edit inclusions in place, making them faster and
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views    
A lot of Wagn's flexibility hinges on putting everything into cards, and then offering a wide variety of views of those cards.
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wysiwyg    
WYSYWIG = What You See Is What You Get Wagn uses the customizable TinyMCE editor for user-friendly editing of rich text, so
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Suppose you're editing a card and click "Cancel", or your browser crashes, or you leave or close the page without saving. Wagn will have
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captcha    
CAPTCHA is an anti-spam device - usually a little picture of a word that a user has to type in before submitting
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Comment_interface-icon-86647Wagn lets you enable commenting on a card with a friendly comment box. User comments simply get added to the end
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The Universal Edit Button is an icon Uebicon-icon-42579 which shows up at the right end of the address bar of your
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On every card you can click on the Changes tab at the top-right corner of the card to see the history of
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Wagn lets you determine who has permission to delete different cards and card types, and keeps the content of cards
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Look and Feel

Wagn's look and feel is highly customizable.

Don't like the way Wagn looks? Customize! You can change the color scheme and more by changing the CSS, and you can
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CSS    
Wagn's appearance, and even some of its behavior, is controlled by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). You can override any aspect of Wagn's default CSS
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sidebar    
You can have any card show up anywhere on any page.   By default, wagn is configured to use a Default Layout
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As with most wikis, Wagn can show you recent activity — just click on the Recent link at the top of every page and
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favicon    
Favicons are the little icons that appear in browser tabs. Wagn will try to make one from your logo, but this may
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Rules

Wagn's uses "Rules" to configure groups of cards.

rules    
A rule is a special configuration that applies to a Set of cards.  Some rules are represented in cards, while other are
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Each of these features involves using settings to create rules:

Wagn's permissions system uses 5 settings: *create, *read, *update, *delete, and *comment
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Forms are content patterns. Every day we encounter lots of formatted information: weather forecasts, sports cards, restaurant menus, user profile pages, tax documents and
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Wagn lets you create your own help text, which will show up when people are adding or editing cards.  Help text is specified with
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Don't like the way Wagn looks? Customize! You can change the color scheme and more by changing the CSS, and you can
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Wagn can use a card's headings to auto-generate a table of contents on any card, or any set of cards using the
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Normally, when you add a card Wagn takes you to viewing that card. This feature lets you take people to another card, or any
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captcha    
CAPTCHA is an anti-spam device - usually a little picture of a word that a user has to type in before submitting
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Wagn can send out customized emails with content based on the *send setting.  Whenever a card in a
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With some card types, you may be not want to have to think about naming each one.  The *autoname setting
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Sharing

These features help integrate wagn with other applications.

 

Wagn lets you watch cards, or even all cards of a given type. You get an email when other people change any
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feeds    
Wagn provides a feed (RSS) of recently changed cards which you can subscribe to in web browsers and feed readers. There's also
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You can add a file ending to the name of a card to get the card content back in other formats.  Currently supported formats
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Google Analytics offers statistics on usage of your website. Wagn makes it easy to take advantage of this.   To get a Google Analytics
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