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  • Pointer cards can have one or more items in them, each item "pointing" to another card. In view mode, Pointers always have an "add/edit" link beneath them which you can click on to go to edit mode. In edit mode, you can add more items by clicking on the "add another" link, and delete an item by clicking on the red X next to it. Blank items will be ignored.

     

    Items will appear by default in closed view, but when you're including the Pointer you can specify other views.

     

    Pointers are most often used to create a kind of relationship among cards, for example each Session card in a Wagn for a conference could use a Pointer to hold a list of Participants. Each item in the Pointer would point to the User card of someone who took part in that conference session. This has several advantages over typing people's names into a regular text card:

    • Each Pointer item becomes a link to a card — without any markup (and if the item points to a card that doesn't exist, Wagn invites you to create it).
    • Wagn saves typing by guessing what card you're trying to point to when you start typing (described in full below).
    • In the example described above, using a Pointer to list Session participants enables you to put a virtual card on each User card showing all of the sessions that person participated in.

     

    Autofill and default cardtypes in Pointers

     

    When you start typing an item in a Pointer, if you pause Wagn will do its best to fill in the rest by listing the names of existing cards that begin with whatever you typed in (much like it does in the Search bar).

     

    If the Pointer is in a form, you can restrict Wagn to guessing from a subset of cards. For example, in a Session cardtype on a Wagn for a conference, you include {{+participants}} on Session+*tform so that each Session card will ask for a list of participants. If you create "participants+*options" as a search for User cards — {"type": "User"} — then items in "Making Wikis Welcome+participants" will autofill with Users' names.

     

    Let's suppose you type in Frank Zappa, who doesn't have a User card yet on that Wagn. After you save, when you click on the gray "ADD FRANK ZAPPA", the card's type will automatically be set to User. Wagn knows to do this because the search specified the User type. You can alternately specify this when including the Pointer in the form, with: {{+performers|type:User}}. This will take precedence over participants+*options if both are present, and specify different types.

     

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