I really need some help. First let me say, I LOVE YOU GUYS. I want to say that up top because Iām about to fuss and I donāt want it to get lost that I appreciate all you do!!
Also I am POSITIVE I am the problemāplease help me see where Iām going wrong. I am a very big card-editor (images, etc) and like having my fields in a particular order in the browser.
When itās in the default layout, my search terms pick up a lot of bootcamp and sketchy titles which is 100% never what Iām looking for lol. I also have to scroll to the 17th of 18 fields to see the additional resources images.
I initially changed the way itās set up through the browser > card > fields window and that does exactly what Iām looking for! (Which is to reorder the fields and collapse the ones I donāt need.)
Unfortunately as soon as I sync with Ankihub, all the changes are lost and it goes right back to putting Lecture Notes under Extra and opens all the other fields and I have to scroll down anytime I want to see the first aid images, etc.
I donāt remember this happening before recently. Is this something I can change and have it stay changed?
Please note: I have one million note types I think from my schoolās deck that I no longer subscribe to, photo below. I donāt think that would be an issue here but honestly I have no clue.
I also have the anking notetype add-on and that works great for the review portion of things but from my understanding doesnāt have any bearing on the browser window. Please correct me if Iām wrong
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I did and in fact that persists with syncing. I even disabled the fields here thinking they would translate to the browser window but I think Iām mixed up on that part and itās just for when reviewing cards.
Yeah sorry, itās a bit of a convoluted problemā¦feels like the anki version of a first-world problem
Iāll kind of go through it step by step, just so you can tell me if itās behaving in a way it shouldnāt OR if Iām editing things in the wrong way.
My notes look like this in the browse/edit window:
The anking note types add-on has it in the order I want it to be in so I assume it doesnāt control the edit window settings.
So I click on the āFieldsā window and make the changes from here:
But as soon as I sync again, those changes are lost.
It may be worth noting that it does give me this āthere is a conflictā pop-up twice in a row which seems odd:
To the best of my knowledge, I donāt believe that there is an available functionality to achieve what youāve described. Though Iāve seen it requested, Iām pretty sure this falls outside of the purview of AnkiHub add-on functionality and lies squarely within Anki and how it is written to display notes in the editor view. My understanding is that it has less to do with syncing, and/or AnkiHub, and it is that the collapse feature is reset upon nearly any action (including restarting Anki). The same is true of the Browse pane.
If memory serves I believe Iāve seen a request for just this very feature on the official Anki forums, but ultimately Iām sorry to say that Iām pretty sure itās a limitation with the underlying software itself rather than a modifiable aspect that can be controlled from the AnkiHub side. At the very least, Iām not personally aware of any way to permanently adjust field collapsing from that screen.
Despite being the bearer of bad news, if thereās anything else I can help with Iād be happy to do so. I hate leaving empty-handed, so if you have any other questions or anything else with which I can be of service Iām at your service.
From here, you can click-and-drag a field up, or down, to adjust the ordering of the fields. Keep in mind that, with many (most?) changes that take place at the add-on level, you may have to restart Anki before the changes fully take place and are evident.
Let me know if that works for you and we can go from there.
Okay so I changed the field order in the add-on to something I donāt normally use so it would be evident but that didnāt change anything in the edit window.
But! When I opened by browse window to check, the settings I selected before (where I reordered stuff and collapsed the unused fields) did stay this time even after syncing and restarting! I have no idea how/why because itās been resetting all day but for the moment it works!
