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The Factory plugin manufactures a new plugin which then replaces the factory. A variety of user interactions trigger the manufacturing of a new plugin.
Use the [+] button to add new factories to a page. This button appears at the bottom of every page, tucked into the lower-right corner of the space allocated to the journal.
Use an un-triggered factory as an entry field suggesting to users where a page can be improved with additional information.
<h3>Interactions</h3>
User initiated interactions determine the type of item a factory becomes.
<b>Double-Click</b> to create a normal paragraph and open the Text Editor to provide the text of the paragraph.
<b>Drop a Text File</b> to create a normal paragraph containing the text of the file.
<b>Drop an Image File</b> to create an image item. The caption of the item will read "uploaded image". Double click the caption to revise it.
<b>Drop a .CSV File</b> to create a data item containing the rows and columns of the .csv converted to an array of key-value objects.
<b>Drop a Weblocation File</b> to create a reference to a federated wiki page on another site. The reference will choose the last wiki page when a reference refers to multiple wiki pages.
<b>Drop a Weblocation</b> from another browser tab to create a reference without first creating a file.
Be aware that every file type and every browser on every system will present a somewhat different signature to the factory plugin. When the factory can't make sense of the signature it makes a data item with the caption <b>unexpected item</b> which will hold some identifying information about the dropped content.