Version 2 - Forms
Added 2019-07-18 13:00:05 +0000 UTCDiceCloud, is three things. It's a data structure for storing D&D characters, it's a character sheet that displays that data nicely, and it's a bunch of forms for editing that data.
In version 2, all three of those things are changing, some of them a little, some of them a lot, but all of them have to be re-written, and at the moment I'm doing the entirely un-glamorous work of writing forms for everything.
This is what the form is looking like for inserting custom attributes into libraries or characters. While there isn't a lot going on in this picture, there's a whole lot of love each form and individual field needs, in order to get DiceCloud to a point where it's intuitive and friendly to use, especially for new users.
A big part of that is making sure every field has clear and understandable hints, as well as validation errors that can make it clear why some values don't make sense in some fields.
Each form also has some fields that are crucial to the functioning of that character property, and other fields that are used only rarely to enable specific functionality. I am still considering hiding the rarely used fields behind an "advanced" section that is minimized by default.
Let me know what you think in the comments, or ping me on the DiceCloud Discord server if you have any questions.
