Way cool, gav. Works perfectly.
"the Great God (snicker)" - James 'Bear' Llewellyn
Being on my 3rd series, and all of them having at least 2 categories having them grouped together will be nice.
Just to note, the change seems to be one of them that can go through without Mod approval
Thanks Gav and Green Man
This is wonderful. Thank you Gav and Liz for your hard work.
Kissing your lips while straddling your lap.
I think I'm going to sit on my hands a while longer, since Gav is on a tear adding new features. Make sure the storm is over before starting the grind of going through my list to take advantage of them.
I've tried to set this up on a couple of my story series and now everything is messed up. Half the time I try to edit a story *just* to correct the series name it sends the story into the edit queue for a moderator. Now half of my stories have the wrong series name and I'm afraid to try and fix it for fear of pissing the moderators off further.
What a cluster fuck.
Thank you for the tutorial! I sure needed this good advice.
Ok, gonna try to post this here and see if anyone can help. I started going through my stories since I often use multiple categories in a single series. some stories went through without an issue, automatically adding the new feature, while some were sent to a mod (not sure why the difference, but the ones sent to a mod were generally returned with the series marked in short order). I see others have had this issue as well, but no one else seems to have reported this issue. The last series I tried to mark, Fun in Cabo Part 1 went to a mod, but instead of coming back as just an edit, it was returned as a new story. All the views (over 7k), comments and votes were gone and all my followers were notified it was a new story. I would like to have the original story restored with all the stats in place. At this point, I am afraid to make the change to anymore stories and have the same thing happen again.
I've gone 'round and 'round with this feature and from my experience it's just completely broken. At this point, I would just like the mods to remove *ALL* of the attempts I've made from *ALL* of my stories. And maybe just let me know when you think this is actually working and I might try again.
I'm going through one of my long series right now, and it's gone off without a hitch so far.
Key points: Only put the series name and check the box on the FIRST story of the series. From there on out, on all subsequent stories in the series, you ONLY select a previous story with the drop-down menu. Don't put a series name in the box, and don't check the box. Only select the previous story, which must be the most recent one connected to the series.
In my case, that meant I checked the box and entered the series name "Magic of the Wood" on the first story, "Steward of the Wood". When I edited the next one, the only thing I did was select "Steward of the Wood" as the previous story on "Daughter of the Wood". On "Forever of the Wood Pt. 1 of 2" I selected "Daughter of the Wood" as the previous story. Then "Forever of the Wood Pt. 1 of 2" when editing "Forever of the Wood Pt. 2 of 2"
You have to do it in a continuous stream. First story, second story, third story, etc. If you get out of order, I'm pretty sure it's going to mess up. Best bet is to not try to do more than one at a time. Submit one, wait for it to be approved, then submit the edit for the second story.
The series header doesn't show up during the preview after the submission screen. It will appear after you have submitted the edit, on the confirmation screen that has the "Submitted for moderator approval" message at the top.
Any chance of this topic being pinned as a "sticky" on page 1? I always need reminding of how to do this, and spend ages trying to find it.
NB - RejectReality's advice above is crucial!
Bump Bump.
If not, remember to bookmark on your device.
Thanks, gav.
Evidently a user error! Help much appreciated!
