Collection Views

Once you’ve built up a set of typed pages — thirty character pages, a dozen factions, fifty locations scattered across the Verdant Undercity — you’ll want to see them all at once. Collection views do that: they show every page assigned to a given type and surface them in a structured display with their property values visible as columns.

Before you start

Collection views work with pages that have a type assigned. If you haven’t created custom types yet, see Create Custom Types. Property values appear as columns only if the pages have property values set — see Define and Manage Properties.

Open a collection view

Navigate to a type from the type management surface or any page that links to it. The collection view for that type shows all pages currently assigned to it, ordered alphabetically by title.

Display modes

Collection views support three display modes:

Table (default) — a spreadsheet-style grid with page titles in the first column and property values in additional columns. Best for comparing values across many pages.

List — a condensed vertical list of page titles with minimal property display. Best for quickly scanning a large set.

Gallery — a card-based layout, one card per page. Best for image-forward content or when you want a more visual overview.

Switch between modes using the mode selector at the top of the view. Your choice is saved per type — the next time you open the collection for “Character”, it will reopen in whichever mode you last selected.

Configure columns (Table mode)

In Table mode, each property linked to the type can be shown or hidden as a column.

1. Click the Columns button or the column visibility control.
2. Toggle individual properties on or off.
3. Drag columns to reorder them.

Column visibility and order are saved with the view configuration. Hidden columns are still stored — they do not disappear from the type definition, and you can re-show them at any time.

Read property values in a view

Each row (Table or List) or card (Gallery) shows the page’s property values alongside its title. Pages that have the type assigned but no property values set show empty cells — this is expected.

Pagination

For types with many pages, the view applies pagination automatically. Pagination limits the number of rows shown at once so the display does not become unwieldy with hundreds of rows. Navigate between pages using the pagination controls at the bottom of the view.

What gets shown

A collection view for “Hero” shows pages assigned the “Hero” type. It does not include pages assigned only to “Villain”, even if a page has both types assigned — that page appears in both the “Hero” view and the “Villain” view.

A type with no pages assigned shows an empty view, not an error.

Tip

Listing the system types "page" or "folder" shows all regular pages or all folder pages in the workspace respectively — a useful way to see everything at once.

Saved view configuration

View configurations (mode, column visibility, column order) are saved per type and persist across sessions. Closing and reopening the workspace restores the last saved configuration for each type.

If no configuration has been saved for a type yet, the view opens in Table mode with all columns visible.

See Also

• Create Custom Types — Define the types that collection views list
• Define and Manage Properties — Add the property columns that appear in collection views
• Container Rules — Auto-assign types to pages as they are created
• Page Hierarchy — Organize pages into folder structures alongside collection views