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Getting started with the editor

An overview of how the editor fits together — the core concepts, what the menus do and how to do the usual things. If you would rather see it step by step there is a walkthrough: build a question guide.

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The core concepts

The screenshots show the editor in English. The guide in them is written in Swedish, and a rule's own case names are the author's words rather than ours — so Barnfamilj and Har barn stay as they were typed.

Nodes

Every step in the guide is a node: questions, rules, calculations and results. You drag them in from the palette on the left.

Ports & flow

Nodes are connected by dragging a line from one node's output port to the next node's input. The connections are the guide's path.

Rules & variables

Questions can save the answer in a variable. A Rule then picks which result the visitor lands on, based on the answers.

Modules

Features come in modules (Basics, Logic, Content, Fields, Host services, Service). You switch on what you need in the Modules menu.

A question's Yes and No ports, each connected by a line to a rule node's input port.
Connect nodes by dragging from one node's output port to the next node's input.
The rule node's properties panel with one condition: variable Har barn, comparison Is equal to, value Ja.
A rule picks the result from the answers: here "when Has children equals Yes". Conditions are built from a variable, a comparison and a value.

The menus

File

  • Export guide – the whole guide as a file in a standard format, for a safe copy or version control.
  • Import guide – load a saved guide.
  • Reset – start again from the example guide.

Edit

  • Undo / Redo – step through the history (Ctrl/⌘+Z).

Guide

  • Show start node – jump to where the guide begins.
  • Node templates – create your own node types and reuse them.

Modules

  • Tick feature packs on and off. Basics is always on; Logic, Content, Fields, Host services and Service unlock more. Host services holds the fields that need something built on your side first: lookup, file, map.

View

  • Zoom in/out, Fit (F), full screen and dark mode.

Help

  • Tour – a guided walkthrough inside the editor.
  • Keyboard shortcuts – the whole list (?).

On the far right, Languagechooses which content language you are editing.

How do I…

Open the editor and try it

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