#Entities with Multiple States, Badges vs Elsewhere

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patent geode
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Hi,

When I add an entity, in this case, a person tracker from a phone as an Entity Badge on a dashboard, there is a Content area that has a State Content drop down that allows me to select different values from the entity, such as Name, Last Updated, Source, Lat, Long, GPS Acc, Alt, Course, Speed, Vert Acc (for the person tracker) and I can select multiples of these to show up in the badge.

Now, if I want to add the same information in a card, there is no Content area when selecting Entity or Entities. Through reading the docs, I'm able to do it with entities, one per line (type: attribute then add the attribute name). If I edit the entity row in the entity row editor, it does let me select "Secondary Information", however this isn't just a list like the aforementioned dropdown, instead it's just Entity ID, Last Changed, Last Updated, State

If I add a single entity card, I can of course select the attribute. Is this just a UI limitation or am I doing something wrong/missing something?

safe shadow
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Entity and Entities cards are very old and don't have some of the more modern design features like the Content selector on the badge.

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Generally the design direction seems to be to migrate everything to Tile, which does have the Content selector.

patent geode
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Ah, thanks, had a feeling I was missing something/doing something wrong. Will try out Tile, thanks.

safe shadow
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Nah you didn't do anything wrong, those cards are just old and somewhat more neglected these days.

patent geode
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Well, I just had no idea the difference or there was a preferred/different card for this. Had a feeling I was missing something since the UI for it was on the badges. Not sure why I gravitated towards those cards, just scrolling through the options, they seemed appropriate, must have not seen tile

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ah jeez I didn't even notice it was right under 'suggested cards' heh

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I think I actually got the multi entities one trying to stack stuff, even though I've set tile to one high it's taking up the whole column