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Fields
Fields are pieces of extra information that you can attach to any card. There is no restriction on how many fields can be appended. A field consists of a label and a value. However the values can have different types. A text field could be for example the phone number of a customer. Name would be then phone and value would be +359 8938 333.
Number fields are a bit special, in the sense that they try to reuse themselves among cards. If you, for example, add a number field "Time spent" to a card as a number field. The next time you try to add a number field, the "Time spent" attribute will be suggested for reuse. Another thing you can do with number fields is the editing of several cards at once. This is done by selecting several cards first (either click them or drag a selection box around cards - they will be blue if they are selected), then click and start dragging the selected cards. An option menu will appear that allows you multi-card actions. If you drop the cards now on the "edit" action, it will open a excel like popup to edit those cards simultaneously.
Date fields permit you scheduling of cards. If the date value is of the type appointment or coming up, it will also show up in the right info bar, provided the selected date is happening in the near future.
User fields can only be set, if there are project members (invite users). The work as a personal assignment of a user to a card. Assignments can trigger a notification email.
Comments
It is possible to leave a comment for a card. To do so, right click any card and click on "add comment". Project user members will get a small "new" marker to indicate whether new comments have been added to a card. To view card's comment list, hover your mouse over a card and click the comment link on the card's footer.
Tools
Here you can see an overview over the WikiCards toolbar after you have logged in. Registration is not required, but all projects that are created anonymously will be publically available to anyone, that you have shared their URL with. They can be also found via project search. Once registered and logged in, you can secure projects and restrict their read and/or write access accordingly.
- Create Cards
Here you can create a batch of new cards. Each card has always a title, a description and an optional attachment field, which can be any kind of file or an image. The timestamp checkbox allows you to create cards with a current timestamp. - My projects
Here you will find a list of all projects, that you are a member of. If you are not yet a memember an option to join the currently viewed project will be available. - Search Cards
Here you can search cards inside the currently viewed project. More help is available from the help link in the search popup. - Edit Tags
Each project can have either groups or tags. They are basically the same, however groups are more volatile. Tags are organized in tag sets. This can be for example a Priority -> High, Medium, Low or thea Status -> Open, Closed, Fixed, Documented - Secure Project
Here you can edit project information and restrict the read or write access for users and projects members. - Invite Users
With this option you can decide who can participate in reading and writing data to your project - Profile Settings
Your personal user information can be changed here - Logout
Log out from WikiCards. Please remember to do so, especially if you are using a public computer to access your projects - RSS Feed
A test feature to access all cards as a RSS feed
About WikiCards.net
WikiCards is a generic organizer for your personal or your company's assets. You can manage and organize documents, personnel, schedules and meetings, issues, bugs, customer contacts, todo lists and many more.
For each asset type you should create a new project. Each asset will then be stored as a single card to which you can append an arbitrary amount of additional information in form of fields. A field can be of date, number or a text type. One special case is the the user typed field, which equals a personal assignment of a card to a user.
Cards can be grouped, tagged or archived to keep a clean structure among your assets. WikiCards allows the execution of a given actions for a pile of cards, which makes the editing really fast and easy.
On top of it all, users that are watching the same project data simultaneously will see changes by other users instantly propagated to their own browser. WikiCards is a real time collaboration tool that uses HTML5 websockets to achieve this. No browser refreshes are needed.
Usability
Unlike most other websites you can use quite a lot of things in WikiCards, that you might know from desktop applications. You can drag a selection box to mark several cards, you can use shift click or shift drag to add cards to a current selection.
When you start dragging the selection an option dialogue will show up. Drop the selection onto one of the offered icons according to the action you wish to execute.
To modify card informations, right-click any of them to see further options.
Double clicking a card will open the card's full detail popup.
When you start dragging the selection an option dialogue will show up. Drop the selection onto one of the offered icons according to the action you wish to execute.
To modify card informations, right-click any of them to see further options.
Double clicking a card will open the card's full detail popup.
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