How to describe a Collection

[meichthys]

With the new improvements made to books (now collections), I've been using them more, but one thing that keeps bothering me is that there is no way to add text (or a description) to a collection (book) note.

I would like to describe what the collection table actually contains. Adding a child note doesn't really solve this since that would add a row to the table. Adding a promoted label doesn't work since that adds a column to the table.

Ideally I'd like to add a description like this:

[eliandoran]

@meichthys , this is most certainly possible.

A collection (and even the old book type) is actually an empty note.
To add a description, simply change the note type in Basic Properties to Text.
Since the #viewType attribute is still there, the children will still be rendered as a table, grid, etc.

[meichthys]

Woah! I never knew that. I didn't realize that collections were simply a viewType
Very neat 👌