Template:WareList/doc

Usage

To display a sortable list of wares on individual vendor pages. It is similar to Template:PrizeBoxList, but does not display the item's tooltip, and provides cost information instead of possibility data.

Code

{{WareList
|name    = 
|type    = 
|subtype = 
|star    = 
|cost    = 
|notes   = 
}}

Parameters

Parameters are highly variable, designed to work with the huge inventory of Spiral Knights. For examples, see what links here to determine what is best for unit cost variation and colloquial subtypes (subtyping is not part of the game. It is something editors have agreed to do to further aid item searching within these lists as well as player understanding. Materials do not have subtypes). Pay special attention to capitalization. Do not upload icon files unless you know the item has just been released or there has been trouble obtaining an icon for a long time due to recolor behavior. All icons are otherwise uploaded, rendering red text the result of an error in input.

Notes are built into the template for Hall of Heroes vendors. Otherwise, the phrase "Binds upon purchase." is most commonly used here. It is not a template default because editors need to carefully make sure each entry is correct for sensitive binding information.

Notes

The cost column is not sortable because sorting tends to organize the table in a rather useless manner for certain vendors (especially Randolph). Tables sort lower values to the top first, so unless editors program the template to reverse this behavior (we could seemingly reverse the behavior with invisible negative placeholders as well as split the parameters into cost and units, since units are variable from vendor to vendor - tokens vs. crowns etc. and a switch for the invisible numbers would have to compensate for all unit variation, which is completely unreasonable - hence the split). To avoid all these complications, vendor lists have their entries simply in cost order from least to greatest, with unit variation organized together, each section starting from greatest to least. See Brinks for more details.