SwirrlSpeak

We released a couple of new features over the weekend:

Item templates

When you’re creating or editing an item in Swirrl, it’s often the case that you’d like to give it some of the same attributes as other items in the same category. When you’re editing an item, we now show you the attributes that have been set on other visible items in the same category, so that you can fill them in if you want to.

You don’t need to set values for all these attributes – it’s just intended as a guide, to avoid you having to keep referring back to the other items in the category to remember what attributes to set. Any attributes that are left blank when you save will just remain unset.

For example, if you have a category for ‘expenses’, for each individual expense you might normally set the date, amount spent, VAT, description, what form the receipt is in, and who is claiming the expense. Now, after the first expense item has been created, you wont need to remember this list: when users who can see your original item edit another expense, these attributes will be presented to them.

Attribute tables

We’ve added a new way to view lists of items in Swirrl (i.e. search results, items tagged with a particular keyword, or items in a category etc.)

By default the results displayed in the way you’re used to: as a list of item names.

However, if you prefer, you can now choose to see a table of the attributes of the items by clicking the link ‘show attributes’. This helps you see, at a glance, more details about each item without having to view them all one by one.