Community Suggestion: Article Conversion+
Article Conversion+
New Feature Addition · Articles & templates · Created by Dungeoneer1998
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Article Feature Conversion
Have you ever created an article, spending 5 hours filling out in great detail your master creation "Ducks Buck House" only to realize that the template you used was incorrect when you attempt to set its' "Type" and find that all the choices are related to Geographical locations? Is that why your bar has an Ecology section? You did think it was wierd that "Ducks Buck House" has a climate section, but hey it's "Ducks Buck House" it can have what ever you want you thought. However you do still want to set the proper type, the world must be properly informed of your creation.
That is why I would like to suggest Article Conversions! A button to convert an article template to another type! Directly transferring the content of overlaping sections, and giving you a .txt file for sections that do not have equivilants so you don't lose your genius to the ether, and can simply copy and paste it into the newly available sections!
Alternatively I would also suggest a "Unconvention Types" toggle to allow you to access the types of other articles so your geographical article can be the (Tavern? Is "Ducks Buck House" a tavern?) it was always meant to be!
The Team's Response
Thanks for submitting this feature request, and to all who considered and voted on it. Having discussed this with the team, we've come to the same conclusion we have with previous iterations of this style of feature request. World Anvil articles are more sophisticated and complex than a text file (that's why they're awesome but it also makes them complicated). This means that technically, the demands of this conversion are too heavy for the system for all the millions of users!
Current score
42/300 Votes · +5502 points
Votes Cast
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-1
by redbeardcreator
on 2023-08-05 23:50I know I've seen this requested before. Reading this particular request and the comments, I'm not in favor of this specifically, but what I would suggest is a way to convert to a generic article, moving all the detail sections in to the main body with BBCode headings, then changing the type of the generic article, but not populating any of the detail sections.
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+300
by A Wild Unicorn
on 2023-08-05 22:48 -
-1
by Pete Nelson
on 2023-08-05 00:07This has been proposed before (I know, since I was one of the proposers) and partially rejected. I think that the functionality to convert a Generic article some a specific template is in the works, but converting from one specific type of template to another has already been discussed and rejected, if I recall correctly.
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+300
by MrBoo
on 2023-08-03 12:26 -
+100
by A Lusty Unicorn
on 2023-08-03 04:44 -
+300
by yourlocaldumbass
on 2023-08-02 13:11 -
+300
by Cameron_Vec
on 2023-08-01 17:47 -
+300
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+300
by puerknight
on 2023-07-31 21:30 -
+100
by CptDzastr
on 2023-07-31 17:35 -
+300
by Willowpanda
on 2023-07-31 07:14 -
+100
by Atismo
on 2023-07-30 22:47 -
+100
by morganarcher
on 2023-07-30 21:44 -
+300
by Wexley
on 2023-07-30 16:05This is a long needed feature. Because I started writing here on a whim, 3 years later. I'm a professional DM and the lore of my worlds is a cluster-f that I'm dreading rewriting just to get the proper template.
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+1
by Demongrey
on 2023-07-29 09:02 -
+300
by PhilosoShy
on 2023-07-27 21:49 -
+300
by Warnord
on 2023-07-27 09:22 -
+300
by BenScerri
on 2023-07-27 08:22 -
+100
by Sydravioli
on 2023-07-26 02:32 -
-100
by aldreaalien
on 2023-07-25 00:42 -
+300
by Satsi Retaffer
on 2023-07-21 16:29 -
-300
by A Fierce Ooze
on 2023-07-19 08:22The thing is that its not as easy as people believe to just convert a template to another as people seem to think. If you have accídently chosen the wrong template its easier to just copy paste
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+300
by HunterChristmas1247
on 2023-07-18 20:28 -
+100
by namako
on 2023-07-18 08:04 -
+1
by A Glamorous Cthulhu
on 2023-07-17 21:57I would like to see this, but also not sure it's worth the Dev time and effort to implement, since copy/paste does exist as a workaround.
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-1
by tjtrewin
on 2023-07-17 19:17 -
-300
by Johe
on 2023-07-17 17:31Copy and paste is more efficient than the development of a migration tool
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+100
by ADpurchas
on 2023-07-17 11:35 -
+300
by ragnarhawk
on 2023-07-17 09:06I know that I have created an article in the wrong template more than once, and added summary information to it without realizing that I made the mistake. This suggestion would definitely help in those situations
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+1
by A Roaring Dimensional Horror
on 2023-07-17 01:25 -
+100
by TexReb90
on 2023-07-16 22:47 -
+300
by Slylock
on 2023-07-16 15:46 -
-100
by Ratha
on 2023-07-16 09:39 -
-300
by A Sneaky Mimic
on 2023-07-16 03:57or you could not be lazy and just create the right article and move the content over via "copy and paste"
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+300
by ano19920
on 2023-07-16 03:14 -
+100
by LoreParmenter
on 2023-07-16 01:01 -
+100
by Fearandramen
on 2023-07-15 22:39 -
+300
by joshallentaylor
on 2023-07-15 22:19 -
+1
by GreeneDragon
on 2023-07-15 18:58 -
+1
by A Sneaky Bananafolk
on 2023-07-15 14:50moving stuff between differing tables is difficult, but not impossible
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+100
by Rilameth
on 2023-07-15 11:52 -
+100
by The Sketchy Wizard
on 2023-07-15 11:03 -
+300
by Dungeoneer1998
on 2023-07-15 09:40
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