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Mar 20, 2019 12:25
by Julien Meyer
"Access, here you can choose if you want your category to be public or private." Even if I set the 'access' field to 'private', I still can see it when I navigate to my article. I'm assuming that this is because I have admin privileges, and the average reader will not actually be able to see the private category. Is this correct?
Mar 21, 2019 02:09
by Dragon
Yep, that is correct. If you have co-owners or editors(I think, they can see private articles at least) they will also be able to see them. :)
Mar 24, 2019 14:42
by Julien Meyer
Thanks!
Mar 24, 2019 16:53
by Dragon
NP! :)
Apr 14, 2019 14:30
I cant seem to get a category table of contents widget successfully showing on any article, I copy the link into the articles I want the widget to be in but it never makes a difference.
Apr 14, 2019 15:05
by Dragon
Weird, do you have an article where you have posted in the link, that I can take a look at?
Apr 14, 2019 15:39
https://www.worldanvil.com/w/atheros-diceydan/a/elefdr-article Here you go, I've put it in the main prose in addition to the sidebar
Apr 15, 2019 02:35
by Dragon
(sorry for the late reply, been at work) Hm, it doesn't appear in the code. How many articles do you have under the category? Are you a member of the discord?
Apr 15, 2019 11:17
Hi, I'm not a member of the discord. I have 22 articles in the category, I've tried with another category with only four articles in and still no joy. I've followed the steps here and exactly as in the video example on YouTube but I have no idea why it's not working
Apr 15, 2019 16:36
by Dragon
Super weird and sadly I can’t help. But if you come over to the discord the developer and the rest of the staff (and the community) is over there and they should be able to help you. :) https://discordapp.com/invite/WHuu4qH Otherwise you can mail them at [email protected] ...or write a bug report, you can find the form under “Need help?” In the footer.
Apr 16, 2019 02:39
by Dragon
Actually, can you maybe screencap where you have put the code?
Jun 9, 2019 03:24
Quick question: is there any way to auto sort the articles in a category i.e. based on the alphabetically order of the article name?
Jun 9, 2019 06:22
by Dragon
Yep, if you are on the alphabetical view you can just click on category header title...if you click on "Title" you sort them alphabetically after title. If you click "parent" it will sort them after the parents.
Jul 26, 2019 17:44
by The Chronicler
It looks like they've updated how Categories work, and now I can't find ANYWHERE to organize my articles within the category. What happened to the nice drag and drop system and how do I get my articles to display alphabetically now??
Jul 26, 2019 17:48
by The Chronicler
Oh, great, they moved it over to the ARTICLES section. How unintuitive and needless.
Jul 27, 2019 04:29
by Ademal
It was always over there, so this keeps it in one spot so he can focus development there instead of supporting the same functionality but different implementations in both. I understand it's a minor inconvenience, but it unifies the whole process and allows him to add more features there to make it ever better.
CSS Whisperer • Community Admin • Author of Ethnis
Oct 11, 2019 08:18
When I created some new categories for my world I noticed that the auto collapse button is gone. At least I can't find it in the visibility settings anymore. Is this a bug or is it somewhere else now?
Oct 11, 2019 18:54
by Dragon
Dimitris is probably poking around with that. There has been talk of being able to move around the TOC and other things on the main page of the world (for guild members).
Oct 12, 2019 11:15
Ok thanks!
Oct 12, 2019 18:40
by Dragon
<3
Nov 10, 2019 00:21
Hello, I added an article to a category but when I visited my homepage it wasn't there.
Nov 10, 2019 06:53
by Dragon
You can see it in your category overview on the article list?
Nov 10, 2019 18:22
Yes.
Nov 11, 2019 05:52
by Dragon
Is the article published?
Nov 11, 2019 05:54
by Dragon
If it is then it's probably a bug, can you take a screencap of your category overview and your world and file the bug?
Nov 12, 2019 00:41
Oh. It just wasn't published. Sorry.
Nov 12, 2019 05:54
by Dragon
Ah good good. :) One less bug for Dimitris to worry about. <3
Nov 21, 2019 14:09
I can't see this checkbox: VISIBILITY SETTINGS This Category will be collapsed on the Tables of Contents
Nov 21, 2019 21:56
by Dragon
You can now find it under display settings.
Nov 24, 2019 16:40
It is not there. There are only 2 options "Display this Category on the top of the World page using a Book-style cover image." and "Display the Category title on World page cover image" I'm using Chrome
Nov 25, 2019 02:39
by Dragon
AH, that button. Hmm~ I think that might have been removed when Dimitris changed the TOC to make it load faster. I'll ask him. Might take a while 'cuz his pretty busy this weekend. (WA is going to Dragonmeet, a convention in the UK)
Nov 25, 2019 08:19
Thank you :)
Nov 26, 2019 01:40
by Dragon
no problem :)
Dec 11, 2019 13:10
Any news about this?
Dec 11, 2019 14:58
by Dragon
No, but he has been busy with other things (the ddos attack on WA earlier this week among other things), I'll poke him about it this weekend. There's the coffee meeting and sage meeting this weekend anyway so I'll either bring it up then or I'll talk to him about it. :) (I want to be able to do it on the category pages)
Dec 14, 2019 11:04
by Dragon
Yeah, he would only bring it back for the inner sanctum members. It slows the loading time for the TOC and for people with large worlds it sometimes crashes the page. His suggestion would be to paste the links to pages that you want people to see right away in the world vignette.
Jan 29, 2020 13:12
ok thanks :( too bad...
Dec 2, 2019 02:54
Is there any way to copy a section of the category tree and paste it into another category? I have several continents and regions, and I would like to be able to copy and paste the relevant categories, and not have to remake the tree for each continent/region. Thanks.
Dec 4, 2019 02:50
by Dragon
Hmm, I don't think that there is a way to copy categories. Could you maybe click the "suggest a feature" bottom and ask Dimi if that feature could be added? :)
Dec 4, 2019 03:43
Thank you for your reply. I will do that!
Dec 5, 2019 01:38
by Dragon
<3
Jan 24, 2020 21:49
Is there any way to have categories NOT show up on table of contents on the world page? I would like to organise some articles and use the link to be able to display the articles in that category within an article but don't want too many categories on my world page.
Jan 24, 2020 23:13
by Dragon
*checks category page* Hm, I think it's an either or situation. Either you have the TOC on your main page or you don't (it's possible to remove it on the world setting page). Hm, you could you perhaps suggest it as a feature? https://www.worldanvil.com/help/
Feb 22, 2020 07:00
Hi I'm trying to make a category for all the articles I have about monsters in my world, and I'm trying to break it into subcategories based on creature type (e.g. dragons, fey, undead, etc.). If you've played the witcher games, it's basically the bestiary. Everything looks fine when I'm in my workspace, but once I go to view the actual campaign homepage, I can only get 2 of the subcategories to show up. Is there a limit to how many categories or subcategories you can have? Is it a glitch? Am I doing something wrong? Plz help lol.
Feb 22, 2020 18:58
by Dragon
Hm, yeah...you should at least be able to go 4 subcats deep (I haven't tried any deeper). Do you have published articles in the other categories? subcategories don't appear if they don't have any published articles in them.
Feb 22, 2020 21:01
Yeah it's funny you mention that lol...I decided to try that after posting this last night and found that out the hard way. Oops. I was getting all the subcategories ready to save myself some time. Didn't realize they needed to be filled first. Thought I deleted this post after. Oh well. Thank you for the response.
Feb 22, 2020 22:43
by Dragon
Ah! :) good good.
Feb 23, 2020 12:12
For some reason, some of my articles which I put in their categories show both in the category and in the uncategorized list giving out quite a crowded and unorganized look... Also some of my religion deities show both as gods and deities but that I suppose is a problem for another section
Feb 23, 2020 20:00
by Dragon
Hm, sounds like a bug, you'll have to take a screenshot of it and send a bug report. You should find a link called "Need help?" in the footer of most pages there you can find out where to do a bug report.
Feb 24, 2020 13:14
thank you, I shall
Apr 17, 2020 05:23
by Camy
Any chance to have categories automatically open to be opted in? I would like to have all of them open to cut down some clicks.
Apr 18, 2020 02:39
by Dragon
That's how it was before, however that took made the pages take too long to load. It's possible to request it as a feature though and the developer will take a look: https://www.worldanvil.com/help/ (the login is not WA, if you don't have a Jira account yet you will have to get one. Jira is a third party program used to simply collect bug and feature reports)
Apr 29, 2020 10:29
Hello - I started creating NPCs under my campaign and it doesn't seem clear to me how I can add those NPCs to a category I have created. Is this possible? Or do I need to recreate them as articles?
Apr 30, 2020 03:29
by Dragon
Only articles can be put under categories.
Apr 30, 2020 06:42
Ah ok bummer, but i guess it makes sense. Thanks for the heads up :-)
May 1, 2020 00:18
by Dragon
NP ...and another heads up. The category and article feature will be changing soon as well. Dimi is hard at work with it. :)
Oct 18, 2020 10:34
I made one accidentally I don't know how to delete it! can someone help!
Oct 18, 2020 17:30
by Dragon
Click it and on the right sidebar, you will see it and the delete button below it. A green checkmark will appear, click that one too.
Oct 19, 2020 14:59
thank you!
Oct 20, 2020 01:55
by Dragon
you're welcome! :) Have fun worldbuilding and if you're interested in joining the community you can head on over to the WA discord. https://www.worldanvil.com/w/WorldAnvilCodex/a/discord
Dec 28, 2020 10:16
Hi, new to WA, and just wondering - when you change a category to a book cover it removes it from the TOC - is there way so it does not get removed?
Dec 29, 2020 03:01
by Dragon
Hiya! :) Welcome! You can put the world TOC where ever you want. Just write [\TOC] (remove the '\' )
Dec 29, 2020 10:39
Thank you for the reply - sorry I did not explain question well - when i change a category to display as a book cover - so on the homepage it presents as a picture - under the world codex table of contents it no longer shows in the list - wondering if there is a way to stop this from happening - again thank you.
Dec 30, 2020 02:01
by Dragon
No, when a category has been made a book on front page it will only be a book.
Jan 8, 2021 14:28
Thank you for confirmation
Jan 6, 2021 04:58
How do you delete or change the name of a category?
Jan 6, 2021 17:20
by Dragon
Jan 7, 2021 06:55
Thanks!
Mar 7, 2021 04:31
I'm new to World Anvil, so please forgive me if I missed this somewhere or if I am doing something wrong, but it appears that the "icon" field for categories, has a character limit, is this correct? I am attempting to use a Font Awesome icon and it stops letting me type after 25 characters. Is it possible for this to be updated to allow for longer icon names?
Mar 7, 2021 04:37
by Dragon
I have asked the developer, Dimi, he is off from work until Tuesday though. I'll reply again when I've gotten an answer. :)
Mar 7, 2021 05:12
by Dragon
Okay! I have gotten a reply from him, there is a 25 character limit. But you can talk to him and give him the icon that you want to use so he can do some testing. Either join our discord and DM him there or write a bug report. https://github.com/worldanvil/worldanvil-bug-tracker
Mar 7, 2021 17:55
Thanks a ton! I didn't know if it was just me or if I was missing something. I'll send a message over on discord. :)
Mar 7, 2021 18:39
by Dragon
Great! <3
Mar 26, 2021 19:42
by Kyle
While working on organizing my categories, I accidently found a bug? I had two worlds open to see how ones categories where done, and while in the process of rearranging/organizing I moved all the articles and their categories from one world to the other. Now I can't access the articles or the categories from the original world. Is there a way to undo this without redoing months of work?
Mar 26, 2021 20:50
by Dragon
It's not a bug, because of the auto save function you should not have several windows open (especially not with two different worlds) because things will then be saved wrong. I will mention to the developer that this should be made more clear with a warning on the site.
Mar 26, 2021 21:31
by Kyle
Thank you! I have since figured out how to replicate the problem after a series of trials and errors, and by doing this I was able to do it backwards to undo the damage, moving the categorize back to the original world1. Seems to be a result of creating a category on one page, while the other refreshes with world2, causing the created category to appear on the refreshed world2 instead of the intended world1.
Mar 26, 2021 23:29
by Dragon
Yep! that's what happens when two pages are up at the same time, with articles as well so be careful with those. Glad that you managed to move the categories to the right world. :)
Apr 28, 2021 09:59
Can someone please explain how I delete categories? It's absolutely driving me crazy and seems like a massive, messy oversight. There's a very good chance I'm being an idiot, but I cannot for the life of me find this option. Please help!
Apr 28, 2021 14:39
by Dragon
Click the category and in the right sidebar is the delete button. You can see it in the bottom right of the image.
Jun 25, 2021 12:30
How do I navigate to articles that have other articles as their parent? I can see them under the title of the article eg (+2) in [category] but can't click that or see another way to get to them.
Jun 25, 2021 12:33
Currently I have to view the article, see what type it is in the "Articles under" section then use "browse by type" to find it
Jun 26, 2021 03:50
by Dragon
If you click the parent article so its information appears in the right sidebar, all "contained"(/child) articles appear in a list there.
Jul 5, 2021 13:11
Thanks!
Jul 5, 2021 13:27
by Dragon
<3
Aug 10, 2021 03:20
Does anyone know if you can have sub-categories appear as books within their own category? So my first page has 6 books. I would like the user to click on one of them, and then the next page is books of the sub-categories of THAT category. As it stands now, after clicking on the books, there's just folders on the bottom left side of the screen for the sub-folders. It's not intuitive that those folders are the subcategories. I'd like a nice image with the sub-category title, the same as my main page with the category books. Is this possible?
Aug 10, 2021 15:47
by Dragon
All categories you make into books will display on the front page. If you want to ask people how to change stuff and maybe simulate something similar with CSS, you can join the discord and ask the community in the #css-help and look at what others have done in #worldanvil-design
Aug 11, 2021 12:09
Thanks for the reply. Wanted to confirm there was no way to do it natively, perhaps something I was just overlooking in the control panel. I'll go the CSS route now that I know (not my forte but I'm learning). Thanks again!
Nov 13, 2021 21:02
Is there a way to easily move an article from one category to another? I realize I put all of my towns in Organizations instead of Settlements *facepalm*. Is the only way to undo that to make a copy of the article and start from scratch? Thanks for the help!
Nov 14, 2021 03:51
by Dragon
Scroll to ”Add articles to your categories” and read those instructions, to change them just pick another.
Nov 14, 2021 06:34
Thanks for the help! I greatly appreciate it!
Nov 15, 2021 04:39
by Dragon
No problem! :D For more help and to join the community you can check out the discord
For some reason, it won't let me select Default Article Cover. Is there something that would prevent me from being able to click there? I can't seem to do it for any of my Categories.
Default cover? They automatically have the default one for the theme that you have chosen. If you want other covers you first have to upload them with the image uploader and then choose them in the "Page cover" section or click the browse button and choose them from your computer. :)
That's the problem, I have lots of images uploaded, but I can't select any to be the default cover for a category. I can manually set them, but that makes the articles look weird in certain areas. Maybe a screenshot will help: https://i.imgur.com/H00pWS1.png
That’s really weird. I’ll make a bug report for you.
Oh, so it's not something I did. Good to know, I'll file one, too.
(If you join the discord (you can find a link on your dashboard) you can get help with more things and file bug reports if you stumble across more of them )
What kind of a browser are you using? Chrome?
Yup.
I just heard back - it's a Grandmaster feature.
Ah! Okay, that explains it. :3 thanks for keeping me updated. <3