Looking to possibly go beyond the funtion of 'Sums'

[Larush22]

The data that gets summed up I would like to take and place into a card or dashboard of some sort. Can I use that data by maybe using a 'sums' custom field or somthing of the sort. I want that summed data to be more visible than hidden from sight in the sums button

[CampbellMG]

Hey mate, you can definitely give this a go, but the roadblock I ran into when I tried to do the same was keeping that data up to date. The current powerup works by calculating the values when the button is clicked. However, if you have that data on something that is permanently visible, you'll need to recalculate as the cards move or values change, which is tricky with the set of powerup APIs that are available. It is even more difficult to make this scale as you'll need to query every card on the board to calculate the sum which can cause lag when performing card actions on a board with many cards.

[Larush22]

How do I go about trying this out? It may work considering I am not going to be updating it often. Is there a way you can refresh it on open at least

[CampbellMG]

If you're just forking this project to make your own plugin, it should be completely fine, as you can gauge the boards you'll use it on. If you're trying to make a change to the public project, it might be a different story.

There is a guide in the README on how to set up your local development environment and some links to the powerups API that should be enough to get you started.