Mass Article Management ("Shift Clicking", mass arrangement sorting, unifying article preferences)
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Mass Article Management ("Shift Clicking", mass arrangement sorting, unifying article preferences)
New Feature Addition · World management · Created by SpecterN7
accepted
articles sorting catagories organization
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
When managing many articles at once, specifically with article organization, it can be quite tedious to manage many articles at once. What I would like is a way to manage the organization of several articles in a category at once doing the following:- Quick Sorting: Have a button to quickly sort the arrangement of every article in a category, I would usually prefer to sort it alphabetically, but other options might be by article template type, creation/modification dates, tags, author, word count, etc.
- Multi Selection (a.k.a. "Shift Click"): The ability to mass select a number of articles simultaneously, which you can then all move to another category at once, mass delete, publish all articles at once, mark/unmark as WIP, make public or private, etc.
- Unifying Config: Have the ability to add custom CSS to multiple articles, manipulate the preferences of all articles in a category (or selected ones), or navigation, etc., and a way to normalize/apply the settings of one article to the rest.
How does this feature request address the current situation?
Adding these features will make the management of large numbers of articles at once far more manageable. For me, especially early on in world development, I tend to shift organization and preferences a lot more frequently, but I usually want to keep the preferences the same for most if not every article, and it will take a lot of time to manually copy those settings into every article, and it gets very time consuming to move 20+ articles at once to a new category if I change my mind about organization.What are other uses for this feature request?
These features would also probably be very helpful for the file management system, If you want to add several images at once, it can be a little tedious to organize the "gallery" category for each image.Follow up
One thing I would like to add as it comes to unifying configuration, I think it would be helpful to have an option to apply it recursively to all subcategories, that way, if you want to say, add every article under the "root" category to a subscriber group, it would be quite easy to apply it to every article in an entire world. Though in the case of applying anything to the root of a world, it probably would be a good idea to have a dialog box pop up to confirm it, just to acknowledge that you really mean to apply that to every article in your world.
Regarding the option to alphabetically arrange things already from A-Z. I didn't realize that existed, the small link to show additional options is not very obvious and easy to miss. I admit I could have looked around more. I was expecting a button to do it on the little area for icons above the new article button, the icons that "slim down list", "expand list", "super expand", and "refresh". If there was an icon to arrange the articles next to those, I would appreciate it.
The Team's Response
Happy New Year everyone! Guys! Alphabetical shorting IN cataegories is already possible and documented.
Current score
92/300 Votes · +21110 points
Votes Cast
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+200
by _tylermatthew
on 2022-01-01 02:54 -
+200
by soaptoaster
on 2021-12-31 21:34Alphabetically sorting articles is already possible, but it would be nice to have additional options for within-category sorting, like by creation date, length, etc., similar to the way that you can sort all your articles by a number of different attributes within the articles page. Multiple-article selection would also be very helpful.
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+300
by Audrey Azura
on 2021-12-31 19:49 -
+300
by ThePharaoh
on 2021-12-31 17:44 -
+300
by JamesWoodwright
on 2021-12-31 12:54 -
-100
by TheeRuler
on 2021-12-30 16:00 -
+300
by Jontaro
on 2021-12-30 09:57 -
+300
by maeoreth
on 2021-12-30 06:43 -
+200
by Neverdusk
on 2021-12-30 05:53 -
+200
by Shadowfell
on 2021-12-30 04:24 -
+300
by Rikardus Sans
on 2021-12-29 21:04 -
+100
by Lenosallose
on 2021-12-28 23:57 -
+200
by St.Jericho
on 2021-12-28 11:38 -
+300
by hypnotoadie
on 2021-12-28 07:55 -
+200
by feylis
on 2021-12-28 03:38 -
+300
by Lukepscott
on 2021-12-28 02:51 -
+10
by goodgodabear
on 2021-12-28 00:33 -
+300
by notthesouljelly
on 2021-12-27 22:35 -
+300
by aithanir
on 2021-12-27 21:58 -
-300
by Kat Avalon
on 2021-12-27 18:59 -
+20
by guvatara
on 2021-12-27 06:51 -
+300
by Eve Musa Gemreez
on 2021-12-26 20:35 -
+300
by MrXonte
on 2021-12-26 12:16 -
+100
by Bladeswillfall
on 2021-12-26 10:51 -
+100
by Snake__Venom
on 2021-12-26 10:15 -
+50
by Arietty
on 2021-12-26 02:31 -
+300
by SirFibbles
on 2021-12-25 23:09 -
+100
by Reddkaat
on 2021-12-25 21:28 -
+300
by Flickered_Flame
on 2021-12-24 03:54 -
+300
by ToughSake
on 2021-12-23 15:29 -
+300
by alexgauthier
on 2021-12-23 14:34 -
+200
by EmperorCharlesII
on 2021-12-23 05:33 -
+300
by RandomD&DNerd
on 2021-12-23 03:25 -
+300
by A Fierce Goblin
on 2021-12-22 20:57 -
+300
by Gortoza Studios
on 2021-12-22 16:45 -
+200
by ZheMari
on 2021-12-22 14:11 -
+300
by Oneriwien
on 2021-12-22 06:23 -
+100
by sadwaffle
on 2021-12-22 01:36I think a lot of this suggestion would be a great expansion in functionality, but you can already quickly order articles within a category alphabetically. If you click the category and open "advanced options" in the far right sidebar, there's a button you can click that says "Order articles A-Z"
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+100
by Terrible Avenger
on 2021-12-21 16:39 -
+200
by kythnos
on 2021-12-21 12:07 -
+300
by resetwithlove
on 2021-12-21 02:10 -
+300
by SetsunaMH
on 2021-12-20 21:46 -
+10
by shibi6913
on 2021-12-20 17:50 -
+300
by arthenius
on 2021-12-20 17:06 -
+300
by technicolormage
on 2021-12-20 05:27 -
+200
by Pantong51
on 2021-12-20 04:05 -
+300
by xSpazztic
on 2021-12-20 01:18 -
+300
by Ononomad
on 2021-12-19 17:10 -
+300
by PhilosoShy
on 2021-12-19 04:25 -
+50
by coacklebee
on 2021-12-18 19:29 -
+300
by Youshou
on 2021-12-18 18:04 -
+300
by FenDawnchild
on 2021-12-18 08:26Seconding scholarmage's idea of being able to automatically sort by alphabet.
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+300
by CristalViper
on 2021-12-17 23:15 -
+300
by Cosmos Darkstar
on 2021-12-17 18:00 -
+200
by Sinister_Fortune
on 2021-12-17 17:12 -
+300
by mirrorsand
on 2021-12-17 16:51 -
+50
by JessSpence20
on 2021-12-17 11:56 -
+300
by Shikya
on 2021-12-17 09:28 -
+20
by CharliniLinguini
on 2021-12-17 03:13 -
+300
by morganarcher
on 2021-12-17 01:40 -
+300
by GrinWithoutaCat
on 2021-12-17 00:53 -
+300
by DarthMediocritus
on 2021-12-16 02:35 -
+300
by Amancham
on 2021-12-15 05:33 -
+200
by scholarmage
on 2021-12-15 05:25As I add more & more articles, it's becoming quite time-consuming to find what I'm looking for within a category, or manually move the articles around to keep them in useful alphabetical order. An alphabetical quick-sort, or the ability to move multiple articles between categories, would be very useful.
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+300
by KyleLemanski
on 2021-12-14 20:45 -
+300
by davi_danger
on 2021-12-14 03:28 -
+300
by michaelthominks
on 2021-12-13 18:44 -
+300
by Jaen
on 2021-12-13 18:33 -
+300
by mkosta
on 2021-12-13 17:58 -
+300
by Spiveystrange
on 2021-12-13 15:46 -
+300
by denversg1
on 2021-12-13 11:37A sort of system where it's a filtered list with checkboxes could be good here, search for the articles you want, check the box then apply a set of conditions to all checked items like add or remove tags/categories/published status - delete all possibly useful too. <3
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+50
by Adcheryl
on 2021-12-13 04:20 -
+100
by One eyed dad
on 2021-12-13 01:28 -
+300
by ChaosTearKitsune
on 2021-12-13 00:51 -
+300
by Mwopigan
on 2021-12-12 22:38 -
+300
by TheMonkeyDoodles
on 2021-12-12 21:13 -
+300
by Bonus Action
on 2021-12-12 20:47Extra points if this is also done for images. Would also be great if we could mass edit the author/creator for articles and images. :)
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+200
by Yuna_Nightshade
on 2021-12-12 20:37 -
+300
by Silviooooooo
on 2021-12-12 19:45 -
+300
by BizarreXal
on 2021-12-12 06:56 -
+200
by PhntmDrgn
on 2021-12-12 06:42 -
+100
by PrincessESH
on 2021-12-11 19:35I think the Quick Sort feature would be especially handy. I think the ability to sort alphabetically already exists, but having other options besides alphabetically could be nice. I'd also love to be able to change the CSS classes of articles faster and easier.
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+100
by Stiefel
on 2021-12-11 19:28 -
+300
by Tobus
on 2021-12-11 19:00 -
+300
by Kondoriano
on 2021-12-11 17:13 -
+50
by Tijmuhn
on 2021-12-11 16:16 -
+300
by PenumbraDei
on 2021-12-11 09:46Similar experience/use case here with regards to creating numerous articles for NPC, Vehicles, Locations etc from notes in a short period of time. Anything that improves ease and speed of mass management of these new articles would be great.
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+300
by Stitchthealchemist
on 2021-12-11 06:23 -
+100
by TheDoctor292
on 2021-12-11 05:14 -
+300
by SeeleyOne
on 2021-12-11 03:38It is annoying to have to sort things manually. I get why you can, since you might want to have control over the order. It is also annoying to make a bunch of articles, only to realize you accidentally put them in the wrong category and then have to move each one individually and try to preserve alphabetical order.
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+300
by mastergentleman
on 2021-12-11 01:59 -
+300
by A Sneaky Cthulhu
on 2021-12-11 01:48 -
+300
by SpecterN7
on 2021-12-11 01:35
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