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Are steps necessary?

Or could a sequence just contain a set of cards, and the branch information for each card "step" be contained within the card itself rather than the wrapper structure of the step?

@carlyleec I have done a fairly major rewrite of the cards, flow and card plugins pages of the design documentation. Please take a look and see if it makes sense (especially the card plugins one, where I ended up doing things a bit differently than I'd originally thought).

Thanks,

Eric

Define flow as a tree structure emanating from a start node with subsequent children nodes. Then we could use a really cool d3 force layout to explode the tree for editing (https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Force-Layout), and label each node with the card title (http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/950642).

Clicking on a node would enable editing of that card.

Not really what the best UI would be for connecting card actions to target cards. Maybe just selecting a card from from a list by title for a particular action.

I'm wondering if makes more sense to extend the the schema of each card to include a set custom attributes for each card type. So that you have some more like this:

{
"_id": "1234",
"title" : "The Card's Title",
"type": "question-and-answer-card",
"attributes": [
{ "question" : "What's up?"},
{"answers": [
  {"text" : "Not Much", "link" : "http://some-other-card"},
  {"text" : "Nothing", "link" : "http://some-other-card"}
  ]
}
],
"permalink": "link to card",
"meta" : ["content type", "preprocessors", "variables", "custom CSS" ],
"group_tag": "thing to group cards by"
}

or this...

{
"_id": "1234",
"title" : "The Card's Title",
"type": "info-card",
"attributes": [
{ "body" : "<html/>"},
{"links": [
  {"text" : "Next Action", "link" : "http://some-other-card"},
  {"text" : "Another Action", "link" : "http://some-other-card"}
  ]
}
],
"permalink": "link to card",
"meta" : ["content type", "preprocessors", "variables", "custom CSS" ],
"group_tag": "thing to group cards by"
}

Thoughts?