Allow deck maintainers to edit the AnkiHub cloud notetypes

[phyn]

Created this thread to formalise the feature request

[SOLVED] AnkiHub-Sync resets notetype settings

An option for the maintainers to adjust notetypes would be perfect! (consider this a feature request ) Yeah, I think it’s best if you just use the newest version of the notetypes available through the add-on. Current versions of the notetypes are here: notetype-addon/src/projekt_anki_notetypes/note_types at main · ProjektAnkiBVMD/notetype-addon · GitHub Ankizin (our main deck) uses only ProjektAnkiCloze and ProjektAnkiBlickdiagnose Thank you for the quick response!

Currently, the “cloud” notetypes (i.e. the notetypes saved in the AnkiHub server DB) can only be edited by AnkiHub admins.

Due to the ProjektAnki notetype (@Projekt_Anki_Germany) being in quite active development, we are at the moment using our notetype add-on to distribute notetype updates OTA independent from AnkiHub.
However, for users downloading the deck from AnkiHub for the first time, the notetype does not necessarily reflect the most current version and requires the notetype add-on to start learning properly.

Allowing deck maintainers to edit the cloud notetypes would alleviate this (honestly now rather small) problem.

[It was a bigger problem beforehand, because our original cloud notetype contained some breaking bugs, that were not detected during initial testing. Thanks again, @jakub.f for your quick help with the sync problem and offering to update our notetype to the current version server-side.]

[phyn]

NOW STALE!
see here:

March 2025 Malleus Clinical Medicine (AU/NZ) Update

Love these updates!! Keep it up​ Also, we recently released the note types feature!! We will be sending out a proper announcement soon Here is how to do it:

cf.

Request to add new notetype to community deck via AnkiHub backend

Hey guys, I note in this earlier thread one of the AnkiHub admins offered to add an updated version of the notetype via the AnkiHub backend to push to users given the current inability to update the cardtype through AnkiHub. The formal feature request for that is here for reference. I’m one of the Maintainer’s on the Malleus Clinical Medicine deck and was wondering if something similar could be performed for our deck if I can supply one of the AnkiHub admins with the CSS of our front/back and …

[phyn]

@Ahmed7 Repurposing this old (and now stale) feature request to ask for just a bit more (technical) details about the note type edit feature 'cause I just can’t contain my excitement.

• In what way will new fields be distributed? Similar to updating as in the notetype add-on (and thus also our Ankizin fork)?

I’m asking because I’ll be the poor soul in our team (@Projekt_Anki_Germany) being tasked with ensuring that everything works on the technical side…

[abdo.nh]

I’ll try to answer your question @phyn

@phyn

In what way will new fields be distributed? Similar to updating as in the notetype add-on (and thus also our Ankizin fork)?

Yes, that’s right. AnkiHub will adjust the user’s local notetype to match the updated version on AnkiHub.

Note that we did a change to the notetypes add-on so it doesn’t remove extra fields. You probably want to pull that into your fork: [NRT-34] Allow extra local fields by RisingOrange · Pull Request #35 · AnKing-VIP/anking_notes_addon · GitHub