After posting the last Atalanta chapter of book #3 it occurs to me the stories order is not very clear. I found an organizer page that seems to be for Book Title and Chapters. I assume each chapter in the sequence is listed in the body.
But how do I actually move the listings or is it the Book and Chapters that needs moving. Do I tag each chapter entry and it is updated. Do I for example create an Organizer page for Atalanta's Story Book one and in the body list each individual chapter or do I create the Organizer page and open each chapter and tag it with the Organizer Title. Or am I plum off-kilter.
Anyway I hope you all can help me as it seems to me that the organization and order of events appear random.
Thank You
Katie
Titles and Chapters
If you don't have an Author page already, create an Author page for yourself using ++Organizer in the top menu above. Put your author name as the title of this page and repeat it in the text box. Save.
Next create a Title page for your novel or series using ++Organizer in the top menu above. Use the title of your novel or series as the title of this page and repeat it in the text box. Save. Use the Outline tab at the top of the page view to pick your author name off the first rolldown. If your series is a sub series or a sequel, you might want to use the second rolldown to add it under its parent item.
Now open Chapter 1 of your work and use the Outline tab to find your author name in the Book rolldown. In the second rolldown, you will find the Title page you created above. Add chapter 1 there and save.
Repeat for chapters 2-9, just as above.
Repeat for chapter 10-99 as above but you will also have to set the Weight rolldown to 1.
Repeat for chapter 100-999 as above but you will also have to set the Weight rolldown to 2.
If you have chapters 1000 or above your name is Angharad and you know how to do this.
There are wrinkles and niceties but this is essentially how to do this.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
I goofed
forgot about the titling protocol. Atalanta's Story lumped it with the first book. I've tried to edit the title and haven't had any luck. You have any suggestions. I thought I'd change it to: Atalanta Continued: Reaching Home
Did you solve it?
I checked and it looks like you did.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
No Erin I haven't
I titled it incorrectly as Atalanta's Story and the software program took that to mean it is a continuation of the first book. I've tried to edit the title and haven't had any luck.
Should I add an weight number to show up last in the first series and then start over re-titling this series and include chapters 1 & 2 in it.
Katie
I don't know what to do
I apparently have created two story series that I can't access. Or something.
Katie
I'm confused
What are you trying to do? What happens when you try to edit the title?
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
I might have an idea
If one creates a book page and then subsequently renames the book, the new name shows up in the lists. (I have had this happen with one of the SEE entries. I know better now.) However, the record is still stored using the original title as the filename. I think this might be what Katelyn means.
I think the only way around that problem would be to create a new, correct book entry, move the contents over to it and then delete the incorrect entry.
I'm not sure what "software program" she is referring to, though. I do not think that any textual change to a file will have any effect at all on the file's position in the hierarchy. Maybe her problem is local.
Penny
Not how it works
There are no files, it's database entries. What can stay the same is the human-readable label for the entry. I can change that easily. I just need to know what is being talked about in terms I can interpret.
Working in PMs, I believe I solved this problem.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Thanks, Erin!
This is information many of us can use, and it is all laid out so neatly. This will be going in my saved file for future reference.
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Clarification
My normal Trial & error process would require many reposts to figure this out, so a point on those "Wrinkles and niceties", probably better answered by asking (rare for me if I can DIY it by RTFM.
This is my Author Page & my structure understanding is a nested hierarchy of pages like a folder structure.
For a Typical New Author planning a Short story that's easy, but writing a novel, or series adds new subfolders.
A typical approach, would have 4 levels.
Author Page > Series Page > Title Page > Chapter Page
Now clearly you have no time to document the technical capabilities of the entire system, but Someone like me can, because that is exactly what I'm good at, looking at ALL the tools available in the entire system, from the perspective of a new user.
I usually find the limits by breaking them, which is fine in modding offline games, but breaking things online, might be public & will certainly make my Own pages a mess as I try to figure out what the limits are.
You give the chapter limits I can work with but it's the "folder structure" limits (Each "Folder" is a posted page, but contains the links to the "Folder" structure, so higher level pages are also containers f the pages (Links beings the user facing element of the structure.
So what I need is to understand is that container structure
Posted it instead of preview.
Default is 0 (Range -15 to 15)
What does negative do?
Is this just Top level possible = -15 giving 31 levels to the container structure, or is negative used for another purpose.
Just the basics needed limits & that one wrinkle is The only thing I can't DIY in the editor to see the result & DIY this.
I have a strange Series structure planned, where the "later Books tell earlier "Perspective Of the same events, from the changing perspectives I've had, many written on the internet, but in bits all over the place, collecting those fixed past perspectives is essential for my personal transition & an record my memory can't distort & I've learned it can never be relied on, it lies & cheats Twists facts To suit that past narrative & it can be subconscious & devious, knows my every thought, plan & distorts it to suit what it thinks I need to survive & it's often right, but it never considers the future damage it will cause.
So I really want to know how far I can push this concept, I can work within the limits once I know what the container structure is.
I mean as a PC system, the site limits on "Creativity" in structuring an Entire universes of stories, that's the users choice to make.
I intend to understand the site limits before I get started & once I do, well I happen to be quite good at writing user manuals & I can document my findings & straighten the wrinkles out, it looks like you can add complexity, after a single story post.
I like to fact check myself & even do RTFM, when I'm the one that wrote the manual & I'm now the one needing to RTFM.
Think that's everything, the nesting seems obvious, just the "Minus" I'm not sure of the meaning for.
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