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My reorganization attempt may have backfired.
I created four categories for most of my stories, but instead, I seem to have warded off some of my stories. Before, all of my 20 odd stories were listed on the right side, with attempted alphabetization getting around the word, "the". But now, only the categories are listed except for the one category being accessed.
Two categories approach 200 hits. The other two have hits in the mid-two-digits.
Anything I can do, besides live with it or undo the reorganization?
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That's the way it works
If you look closely, to the left of the "category" you'll see either an open circle or a small triangle. Click on the small triangle (not easy!) and that should expand that section.
This is a common technique used on BC not for categorisation but to organise books (or anything else) into a tree structure. When you go to Edit something of yours, there's an 'Outline' tab and that should allow you to see the whole thing - and move stuff around.
The reason that only one section is expanded when you read is because some authors have hundreds or, if you are Angharad, thousands of entries and the bottom of the web page would reach Moscow if it were all expanded.
Penny
Not Clear?
It seems that I may not have been clear that I was referring to others finding my stories.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
They'd Have to Open the Triangle...
...to see the stories under that heading. AFAIK (I'm not an admin or anything) if you categorize stories here, that's just what happens; no way around it.
Eric
Looks good to me
Maybe I'm not understanding your dilemma, but I just clicked on your name from the "authors" page, found your organizer page and it worked the way I expected it to work. Click on a category and that opens a menu of your stories in that category.
The only other thing that would work the way I think you'd like it to would be to create a document that is nothing more than a table of contents the links to your stories. That require a bit of HTML magic, but it could be done.
I produced an interactive table of contents for "One Dozen Roses" that had jump links that could be used to jump to any story in the anthology. That's a bit more complex than one that simply links to a story on BCTS, so I know it could be done.
If you like that idea, I've just finished my current project and would be willing to work with you on how to do that.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann
Thanks for the Idea
I think I might be able to do something of the sort myself. It's probably straightforward as long as I don't have it update itself automatically.
EDIT: I think I did it. Was this what you had in mind?
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
You got it
That's it exactly. It is easy, it just requires the knowledge of how to include links. You aced it first try.
You will have to update it every time you post a new story.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann
Thanks!
Thanks!
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)