External tools and scripts for Kanka
External tools
Kanka Attribute Templates Designer by MaxJohnson: A rough and messy local workspace to approximate Kanka's layout and css capabilities for attribute template development. Uses JavaScript to replace some of the Blade logic with placeholder text to assist in developing and testing your template’s layout locally.
Kanka Ruler Calculation by BrandonEchols & The Quacken: Figure out what value to input for the map measurement setting based on your image's dimensions and desired metric.
Tag the Untagged by Kelaos: An API-based utility that adds a specified tag to all of your untagged entities so you can track them down more easily.
Kanka-Wordcount by Kuskus: A Typescript utility that computes the word count of your campaigns, supporting various options and filters. Installed and run locally via NPM.
Discord Integrations
kanka-discord by Fallayn: A bridge that automatically posts Kanka changes to a Discord channel.
kanka-view by Arconyx: A Red-DiscordBot cog that allows you to access your Kanka campaigns from Discord.
User scripts
The links that follow will take you to various Tampermonkey scripts designed specifically for Kanka. Those scripts are extensions that can be installed in your browser to give you additional features without affecting the actual website for other users.
Automatic Table of Contents
Automatically adds a Table of Contents block under the Pins sidebar of any entity on Kanka, with clickable links to each heading and optional "back to top" links. It integrates seamlessly with any official theme and can be customized further using campaign CSS.
Custom Coloris Palette
Modifies Coloris color pickers in Kanka to suggest the user’s choice of preset colors. This applies to forms such as Events, Relations and Map Markers, as well as the Theme Builder.
Custom Keyboard Shortcuts for Summernote
A customizable script to help you replace the key bindings for Summernote’s keyboard shortcuts.
Entity Privacy Setting on the Entry Tab
Makes the entity Privacy checkbox visible on both the Entry and Permissions tabs, so you don’t need to leave the main tab to make an entity private, but the setting also appears with the rest of the permission settings.
Gallery Alphabetical Sort
Sorts folders and images alphabetically in the Kanka Gallery, keeping folders first.
HTML Beautifier for Summernote
This simple script processes the HTML code of your Kanka entries every time you switch to Summernote's code view in order to add line breaks and indentation and make the code more legible.
Jump to Post
A nifty little script that adds an unobtrusive dropdown menu next to the Collapse All and Expand All post controls in entity headers, allowing you to quickly scroll down to the selected post (with optional "back to top" links).
Map Path Helper
Adds a button to the polygon marker editor in Kanka maps that manipulates coordinates in the text field in order to turn them into a single line. For example, you can click any three points on the map and activate the Helper to end up with a continuous line instead of an enclosed triangle.
Kanka Editor Toolkit
Adds buttons to the Summernote editor toolbar that can be used to insert HTML elements or classes required by various Marketplace themes with a simple click. Also provides convenient modals for the more complex plugins. Most features are compatible with both the visual and code editors, and you can also set up your own classes and HTML snippets in your campaign’s styles for quick access.
Mention Previewer
Allows viewing mentioned entities in a modal that contains the full entry, posts, pinned attributes and images, without leaving the current page.
Search Upgrades
Adds another link to search bar suggestions as you type. Said link will take you the Search page to look for your input in entity content rather than limiting itself to titles. Optionally, you can also use this script to quickly find campaign or user settings without navigating through the interface.
Subpage Elements Counter
Shows the count of attributes, relations, assets, etc. on each entity's corresponding submenu item.
Summernote Code View to the Top
A simple script that sets the cursor position to the start of the input field rather than the end when switching to Code View in the Summernote editor, which is more consistent with what happens when you switch back to the visual editor.
Tags Column for Kanka Entity Lists
This script adds a Tags column to entity lists in table view, as is often requested on the official Discord.
Ideas and work in progress
The JSON Export option could be used to fetch limited additional data from an entity and display it on its front page (and/or display front page content in its subpages).
I’m considering using the above to add an entity’s entry to the new search pane’s result preview.
Retired scripts
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