Missing Series Stories

Quote by CumGirl
A number of my stories are missing from their assigned Series even though the section has been completed on the story. They usually have the Series tag but on the 'More Stories' listing are not appearing under their designated Series listing.

I'd quite like to get it tidied up to help readers navigate through them should they so desire.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Quote by Jen


Someone asked me about this recently, so I've copied and pasted my reply to them in case it helps, and cos I'm lazy



The series thing is really designed for a 'normal' series with chapter 1, 2 etc, but I've used it for my After Dark series, which are interconnected, but standalone. That being said, I would work out the chronological order you want for them, because really you have to pretty much set them up as a linear series.

Once you have your order, add the series name to the first story and tick the checkbox for connecting future stories. That's all, but if you have any other stories linked on the 'continue reading' bit, then remove them.

For the next story in the line, you don't need to add the name, or check anything. All you need to do is link your previous chapter from the drop-down. Again, if you have anything else linked, remove it.

For chapter 3, all you need to do is link chapter 2 in the drop down, and so on

Quote by CumGirl


Jen, Jen, Jen.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I've had a little play around. Worked out what's going wrong and now I've totally Mary-Joseph-and-Baby-Jesused it.

Going to have an absolutely fun-packed day sorting out all my Series now.

Just one additional info question, when I update a published story do these go into the Moderator queue? Am I clogging up the system by doing multiple updates on old stories? I've been writing little notes tti the Moderators on each submission because I don't want to be wasting their valuable time.

CG

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Quote by RejectReality


If all you're changing is the series links, it should be only a few seconds worth of review for a moderator. They have a "track changes" type of thing that will let them see all you did was tweak the links. I can't recall for sure, but I believe some of mine went through without even hitting the queue when I grouped some of my series a while back. I know for certain that not all of them did. Check after hitting the publish button to see if the one you just edited is approved or awaiting moderation. If it clears automatically, may as well keep going until one goes into the moderation queue, and then try not to overwhelm the mods. Even though it should be a quick and easy approval for them, they don't know that initially. All they likely see is the number of submissions awaiting approval, and dropping another 10 in there might be just a bit anxiety inducing. LOL

Quote by StarBelliedBoy
I can confirm from recent experience both sides of the fence that if all you're doing is updating inter-story links and series names then it does not require mod intervention - it doesn't even go in the queue.