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I'm trying to write a search in our Wagn which is analogous to this one in Group Patterns Wiki:

http://grouppatternlanguage.org/wagn/Patterns_by_category

{"type": "Category",

"sort": "name",

"append": "patterns view",

"view": "content"

}

http://grouppatternlanguage.org/wagn/patterns_view does not seem to have any content or settings or a related +*right card, unlike some of the other searches in that wiki - I can't tell where this is implemented at all.

Some of the other views have visible searches such as: http://grouppatternlanguage.org/wagn/pattern_category_view+*right+*content

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but none of these exactly match what I want to do.

I read http://www.wagn.org/wagn/WQL_Syntax and tried

{"type":"organization", "orgtype":"Government Agency"} as a search in our Wagn but this gives a syntax error. It looks like some combination of "plus" "refers_to" is needed but I can't tell which after rereading the syntax guide. --Joseph Boyle

Re the "patterns view", there is nothing special about that word, it's just an arbitrary plus card configured through "patterns view+*right" settings. You can create as many of these kinds of plus cards as you like. You currently do this just by creating these cards by hand -- there's not a lot of interface for it.

Do I understand correctly that you want to create a listing of Organizations grouped by org type? If so, you'll first want to create a search that produces all the orgtypes. How this works depends on how you have organized your org type cards. If, for example, you have a cardtype called "orgtype", you may just want something as simple as:

type: orgtype, sort: name

This might return something like:

Nonprofit

For-profit

Government

..whatever

Then, basically, you want to take each of these orgtypes and make a special plus card that shows its name and a search of the organizations that have that type. for example, if you decide to call it "+org type summary", then you would add this to the search:

append: org type summary

and it would return

Nonprofit+org type summary

For-profit+org type summary

.... etc

Having done that, the challenge is to configure each of these cards using the "org type summary+*right" set. you set the content for members of that set using the *content setting.

For example, it might look something like this:

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