Categories

We’ve built Kanka with about two dozen categories that interact with each other and help you organise your worlds. If our pre-determined categories don’t quite fit your needs, premium campaigns can also create their own.

Accessing your world’s categories is done by clicking Settings in the sidebar, and then going to the Categories subpage (or searching for Categories in the lookup field at the top of the page). This interface splits into three distinct sections.

Custom categories

The first section is reserved for your custom categories.

Custom categories have a singular name to describe an entry, a plural name to describe multiple entries, and an icon used for the sidebar and quick creator interface. Additionally, when creating a new module, you can directly set roles that have access to entries creating in the new module.

Once created, the new module is visible in the Bookmarks section of the sidebar and as an option in the quick creator.

What happens when a campaign is no longer premium

If a campaign loses its premium status, existing custom categories remain accessible. You can still view, edit, and delete entries within those categories, but you will no longer be able to create new entries using custom categories.

Default categories

Each world comes with the aforementioned pre-determined default categories, and they are automatically all enabled, except for the deprecated conversations and dice rolls categories.

Info

Disabling a category doesn’t delete the related data from the campaign. Instead, it is simply hidden. Only members of the campaign’s admin role can enable or disable categories.

Customising module names and icons

If you’d rather the Race module be named Folk throughout your Kanka campaign, you can do so. Click on the edit button in the module’s box you want to change.

This brings up an interface to update the module’s status, singular and plural name, icon, and lastly it’s placeholder image. Renaming a module works well for English and non-gendered languages, but will lead to weird sentences in the UI for some others, where assumptions are made about the gender of the module’s default name.

Module icon

The module icon field can be filled out with a FontAwesome or RPGAwesome class.

Features

At the bottom of the page you’ll find features that can be turned off. For example, if you don’t need inventories or assets in your campaign. Most features are such an integral part of Kanka that they cannot be turned off. However, you can hide them with some custom CSS magic.