Handbook · This handbook
This handbook
Where in the UI. You are reading the public handbook. The editor itself is templates.containd.app. The catalog wiki at catalog.containd.app/en/developers/ covers install, safety for installers, and downloads — not authoring.
This site teaches the Containd Template Editor for people who are comfortable with structured tools but are not necessarily programmers. It explains every canvas, every kind of data you can bind, and where live values actually live when an item is used in the app.
What a template is (for authors)
A template is a recipe for a kind of thing in Containd: how it looks, which extra fields it has, what happens when someone edits it, and how it talks to other items. Users install a template (or start from a catalog example). Then each item in a Space is one live row of that recipe.
The catalog page About templates is the short public wiki (install, sandbox-for-installers, sample projects). This handbook is the editor manual.
How to use these pages
- Start here — map of the five tabs, then a first template you can finish in one sitting.
- Understand — mental models. Read “Where data lives” before you bind anything important.
- Make — one page per tab: what you can add, what the inspectors mean.
- Cookbook — short tasks (bind the title, nested categories, table + chart).
- Reference — complete catalogs (nodes, properties, components, Blockly, host methods). Generated from editor source where possible.
- AI authoring — in-editor Author chat and the CLI/MCP kernel (same tools).
English only (for now)
The catalog is localized (en / de / ja). This handbook is English. Links from German or Japanese catalog pages should say so.
Public host: documentation.containd.app. Open it from the catalog or Spaces site under Docs → Editor handbook.