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Wagn is the wiki way to organize. Our Wagn 1.3 release introduces settings on any set of cards, including layouts, table of contents, edit help, and captchas.
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Have you ever noticed how many different kinds of configurations you have to learn to manage a website? Or how every different configuration comes with its own set of rules?
Wagn hasn't been all that different from most wikis and CMS applications in this way. Some configurations (like layout) applied to the entire site, some (like table of contents) to a single card, some (like autoname) to a specific type of cards, etc. Learning to "Wagneer" meant learning the boundaries of each setting.
Our new Wagn 1.3 changes that by taking advantage of our everything-is-a-card approach. Now any Setting can be applied to any Set of cards. The set of cards can be as inclusive as all cards or as narrow as just one card, so you can be as general or as specific as you like.
Take layouts for example. When we introduced custom layouts in 1.2, you could only change the layout for the entire site. Now you can apply layouts to any set of cards. So I can a special layout for all User cards, or all cards ending in +address, or for that one card with the huge image. This means you can now create special areas of your Wagn site for administrators or any other role.
In Wagn 1.3 we're introducing the first round of sets and settings by converting several of the simplest site configurations into Wagn's new system. Captchas, edit help, tables of contents, autonaming, and several pointer configurations (like input type and options) are now all controlled by settings. In the process, almost all of those settings became more powerful. For example, you can now specify the minimum number of headings needed to autogenerate a table of contents --- for any set of cards!
If you want to try these new settings out, click on the "Options" tab on any card, and then click on the "settings" subtab. (Sandbox.wagn.org is a great place to try out new features). There you'll see the current settings for that card. If you open any given setting, you can see all the sets that the card is in and change the setting value as narrowly or broadly as you like.
These few settings are just the beginning. In coming releases we'll be converting all kinds of card configurations into Setting cards, from favicons to formatting to permissions. Not only will this greatly increase your power as a Wagneer, but it will also make it easier for wagn developers to create elegant interfaces for controlling this elegant settings sytem.
- The raw view no longer works at all (it's been deprecated for a while; use naked to get the effect raw used to give).
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(Old behavior in Changes that seems to no longer be true.) +solution +todos add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed,, 1,lowIssue
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+issue add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed,, +points , +assigned tolowIssue
we really need to be able to set the view for _main [11/19/09 4:10:45 PM] Ethan McCutchen: you're donish for the day, no? [11/19/09 ... add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed,, +points , +assigned tohighIssue
just got this email: I went to the Wagn home page and had to enable Compatibility View to get it to work right. Is ... add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed,, +points , +assigned tomediumIssue
+issue add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed,, 0, +assigned tohighIssue
There are two separate problems:... add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...
- forgot password does not check whether an account is active before sending out its information
- new account requests are
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aka Pattern cards round 1 See Pattern Cards and http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tc229MGg7C_3LjsPj8F_C4Q&hl=en Proposed name changes:... add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...
- Pattern -> Panel -> Set
- Setting -> Knob -> Setting
- Setting
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want a way to test out new layouts specify layout=xxxx in url. uses builtin layout if available, then looks for card, then defaults to *layout, then hardcoded layout. add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed,, 0, +assigned tohighIssue
*layout is migrated to a funky old layout format. new migration to set *layout to blank pointer add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed,, 0, +assigned tolowIssue
+issue just needed to fix that one link not to use class_name. add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed,, +points ,lowIssue
add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed,, 0, +assigned tohighIssue
This also means we'll need a place to send people to when they're denied. "account+*denied" giving a relative or absolute URL, like *signup+*thanks ? add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed,, 3,mediumIssue
add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed,, +points ,mediumIssue
add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed,, +points , +assigned tolowIssue
The ends of headers often end up with an extra br, which makes URLs with anchors unnecessarily ugly. add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed,, +points ,mediumIssue
add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed,, +points , +assigned tolowIssue
+issue add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed, medium, 1,Issue
+issue add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...
We still need to
- cancel of missing should return to missing
- fix redirection after creating new cards?
Migrations from English: http://en.dwagn.org/wagn/*all+*table_of_contents http://en.dwagn.org/wagn/*table_of_contents+*rform http://en.dwagn.org/wagn/*table_of_contents+*edit http://en.dwagn.org/wagn/*layout+*rform http://en.dwagn.org/wagn/*layout+*edit I removed *layout+*options because layouts ...
error messages (on invalid card submission)
Found a problem here. Go to http://test.dwagn.org/Home and sign out, then click on "Add add more cards" and try to Create. The captcha comes up, and when you fill it out you get:
Denied!
for card add more cards: anon, You don't have permission to edit this card.
403 Forbidden
--John Abbe.....Tue Dec 22 06:23:10 -0800 2009
Redirection after creating new cards is broken on ang and pinz. You see the new card rendered, but without reloading the page (i.e. there' still the "New Card" header, and card creation instructions).
http://test.dwagn.org/card/new
--John Abbe.....Wed Dec 23 18:30:40 -0800 2009
the denied problem we decided to bail on for the release because it only comes up if you have create permission and not edit permission AND the card you're trying to create exists in the trash.
--Lewis Hoffman.....Mon Dec 28 15:04:03 -0800 2009
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sometimes want information on forms, layouts, etc that doesn't get exposed to users add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...