Merging AnkiHub Decks

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The maintainers of EM Power and Rob’s Emergency Medicine Deck would like to merge our decks together. What would be the best practice for going about this? Is there a way to do this without subscribers losing their card data?

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Following here for a solution to this. We are trying to update a deck and would like to replace the old deck with a new deck without losing subscribers. What’s the best case for this?

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cc @andrew

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I’m wondering in what sense you want to replace the deck? What changes did you make between the old and new deck? Did you edit the notes of the existing deck? Wouldn’t it work to just suggest the changes?

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It looks like the two decks were already merged?

Did everything go as planned?

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The title has been changed nothing else has been merged. No notes in the existing deck have changed. The one solution that I came up with was to unsubscribe from EM Power convert those EM power cards into the note type associated with Rob’s deck and suggest them as new notes. Before doing this I am want to know the two following questions:

  1. Is it possible for the note type from one deck to be added to other?
  2. Would subscribers who move from the EM power deck lose their note data as a result of merging cards?
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We are trying to change the front template, back template, and styling of the cards within the deck. I don’t think AnkiHub allows you to edit that or suggest that as changes. If they do how would we go about that?

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That’s a viable solution. Here is an outline:

  • Install both decks
  • Unsubscribe from the EM power deck via the “Deck Management” dialog in Anki
    • (or unsubscribe from the deck on the website and then sync in Anki)
    • otherwise you won’t be able to suggest the notes to the other deck
  • Change the note types of the EM power deck notes to the note types of the combined deck. An important thing to note here, is that we currently don’t support adding note types to decks. So you would have to change the note type to one of the note types which already exist in the “Rob’s Emergency Medicine Deck + EM Power” deck.
  • Suggest the notes from EM power deck as new notes to the combined deck
  • Accept the suggestion(s) on the AnkiHub website

You might get some error messages in Anki when creating the bulk suggestions with many notes as once, but the suggestion should still be created on the website.

No, we don’t yet support adding new types to a deck after it was created.

If the subscribers added their own content to fields (for example into the “Missed Questions” field), they need to protect these fields on the combined deck before installing it. Otherwise these personal edits will be deleted in their Anki collection when installing the combined deck. Aside from that, subscribers won’t loose their note data.

If you want, we can setup which fields of each note type should be protected by default for new subscribers to prevent subscribers loosing the contents of their previously protected fields.

When the decks are merged, the subscribers of the EM power deck can unsubscribe from the EM power deck and subscribe to the combined deck. The fields of their EM power notes will be the same as before (assuming that you suggest the EM power notes to the combined deck as they are now and that they protect the right fields). The review history will be kept.

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Unfortunately we don’t support changing note types or adding new note types to an AnkiHub deck currently. We are considering to add this feature in the future.

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