Public knowledge base

[Connor_McCormick]

TLDR; right now, since infinite nesting and dynamic document generation is not well supported it’s not quite possible to build public knowledge bases, though Coda will one day be excellent for that!

There are some ways to get around that depending on the amount of work you’re willing to do.

This directly addresses your question and there are some great solutions here:

Can Coda replace a Wiki?

Hey @Ed_Liveikis, been appreciating your posts and another good one. I just referenced this post in another carrying on the Roam Research dialogue that’s been active around here lately. I would also be very interested in hearing more about the Coda Product’s team plans in this regard. Like @GJ_Roelofs, I’ve also experimented with using Row’s themselves as actual documents, due to the attributes they have that Sections don’t. And the absolutely terrific writing capabilities you get - in part…

This is a repository for any tricks that people have collected, I wrote quite a bit about the things that are possible and the shortcomings therein:

How best to generate text (a document) from a table?

Hello everyone, My current goal is to use Coda to automate the creation of Scope of Work documents. For each of my prospective customers I want to: Input information about them into tables Select a particular customer to populate a Section that contains their scope of work which should contain: a. One off items like their name, the date, and my contact information b. FormulaMap generated items. For example, a customer may have multiple security locations, and each location may require mult…

Finally, here is a Feature Request for what it seems would be necessary to get a wiki working, if there is anything you see missing there please add it to the thread:

Content Formatting / Text nesting / Dynamic text generation / Infinite Section Nesting

As a result of this topic: And many others, it has become clear that a key feature that we need is a way to take data from in our tables, display them in sections, then output them to documents. To some, it may seem like this is already functionality that Coda has, for example, we can already do this: However, there are a number of difficulties that come with trying to pull this off. Most of the difficulties that are encountered when building dynamic documents are recorded here: The p…