Create or edit a twine

Create a project from scratch

• In the Twine dashboard, go to the Story menu and click the "New" button

• Name the project and click the "Create" button

Done! The project is now created, and we can start working on it.

Create a card

By default, the first card is created automatically. This card usually refers to the bot's Main Menu.

• The first step is to name the card. There are two ways to do it:

  • In the Twine dashboard, go to the Passage menu and click on the "Rename" button, enter the name and click OK

  • Double click on the card to open it, and in the submenu with the content of the card, click on "Rename", enter the name and click on OK

Import a project already created

It is possible to import an existing project and edit it

The steps to follow are:

• Click Import in the Library submenu

• From the pop-up that will appear, search and select the file to import

• When you find the file, click Open

Create content

The content of the cards will be what the bot displays in its messages. It can be text, menus, images...

Let's focus on creating text and menus, since other types of elements may need the help and advice of the Chat-Tonic team.

Add text

Once the card is available for editing, we can start typing the text that we want to display to the user.

As an example, we are going to create a Start/Main Menu card, but the logic applies to all cards.

- We will write the text that we want the bot to show to the user.

- Twine allows you to use emojis! You can search for the emoji you want here 📙 Emojipedia — 😃 Home of Emoji Meanings 💁👌🎍😍 👈 and copy and - paste it into the card 😉

- Once we have finished writing the text, we close the card and that's it!

Create options menu

To create options, you must use the following format [[I want to make an appointment->Make appointment]]

• [[ ]] Two brackets should contain the text that will be the option.

• The first text will be what the user will see as an option.

• -> The little arrow is necessary to indicate where the option is directed.

• The text after the -> is the card the option targets.

Sometimes the option can match the name of the card. As in the example in the video: [[See more options]] will be both the name of the option and the name of the card.

As we see in the example, a card is created for each option. Then, to add content to each card, we will do the same as we saw in the previous step.

View the created flow

When it comes to viewing the complete flow, we have some options. First, we are going to focus on the view we have been working on.

In this view, we see the complete tree and how one card is related to others using arrows. It's a very visual overview of the entire flow.

Twine offers us three display sizes: Small, medium, and large.

Second, Twine offers a visualization tool called Play 👇

View with Play

This visualization option allows you to navigate the designed flow in a way that is more similar to its final version. It is useful if we want to more faithfully simulate what the bot user experience would be like.

To use it, you just have to go to the Build submenu and click "Play".

You can also view the flow from any card, by opening it and clicking on "Test from here".

Export the file

To download the file, which should then be shared with the Chat-Tonic team, simply click "Publish to file" in the Build submenu.