Choose positioning of some prompts in your article
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Choose positioning of some prompts in your article
New Feature Addition · Articles & templates · Created by ChrisJWalker
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characters templates gender sexuality side-panel content-organisation
Disclaimer: Upfront I wanna say that this is in no way a complaint about the inclusion of these input boxes or how the World-Anvil team has been handling this topic - I've been on WA for a while now and it makes me happy that in recent time, the options for authors/players etc to expand upon their characters' identity have grown. A lot (if not all) of my stories include themes of self-discovery and struggle against society's narrow definition of what both gender and sexuality are. As a queer person myself, I find these topics important to include in fiction and obviously people should have the opportunity to explore said themes in TTRPG and such as well. So I request you understand that I in no way wish to erase or promote any erasure of the given features or the topics they expand upon. Thanks.
Another example is the nickname/alias prompt that is usually displayed alongside the character's name at the top of the page. However, I'd find it much more useful if I could let it sit in the side panel, e.g. under the character portrait (I know you can achieve this by creating your own 'prompt' in the 'Sections' tab, but it's irritating and I also don't want all of the things I would move to the side panel to be either at the top or at the bottom of the panel).
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
I've noticed that some prompt boxes, particularly in the 'Character' template have been moved around a lot - notably regarding gender, identity, sexuality and pronouns. I understand that it's a complicated topic and that depending on the character and/or universe or story theme, worldbuilders might want more space to expand upon these topics. But with other characters (like side characters) or with stories where it's a less important facet of characters (or the author has less to say about it), its inclusion in the main part of the article can break up the reading flow (e.g. a character of mine that lives in a world where there is a lot more acceptance with topics such as gender and sexuality, the only thing I would put in these input boxes are "She identifies as a woman and goes by she/her pronouns" or "She is into women". Having this in the main part of the article instead of in the info panel on the right breaks up the reading flow IMO and the constant moving around of where these 'prompt answers', or whatever you wanna call them, go has resulted in me having to constantly come back and edit or find new ways to display it in the article).Another example is the nickname/alias prompt that is usually displayed alongside the character's name at the top of the page. However, I'd find it much more useful if I could let it sit in the side panel, e.g. under the character portrait (I know you can achieve this by creating your own 'prompt' in the 'Sections' tab, but it's irritating and I also don't want all of the things I would move to the side panel to be either at the top or at the bottom of the panel).
How does this feature request address the current situation?
My idea for this is to enable the authors of articles to choose where they want these prompts to be displayed on an individual level. Not sure how much work that is to implement, I'm only a beginner in web design stuff, but it would make it much easier to control how an article reads, and allow for short, bulletpoint-esque answers to be moved to the character side panel at the author's discretion.Follow up
Neat :3 Patiently waiting :>
The Team's Response
After conversation in the team this will be part of the v.1.0 (new Presentation interface) of World Anvil that is hopefully coming this year. this will not be implemented in the current interface
Current score
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by A Fluffy Velociraptor
on 2023-01-23 19:35 -
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by LadyColubrid
on 2023-01-22 21:07 -
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by CombustiveBoulder
on 2023-01-22 18:36 -
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by ReginaCaeli
on 2023-01-22 18:03 -
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by Cameron_Vec
on 2023-01-21 15:02 -
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by Krawczyk & Weaver
on 2023-01-20 17:31 -
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by Tector
on 2023-01-19 14:16 -
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by ChairmanFirantine
on 2023-01-18 11:19 -
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by Happypill
on 2023-01-17 16:21 -
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by Vibeca
on 2023-01-15 16:07 -
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by 1337spectra
on 2023-01-14 20:38 -
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by Nanotide
on 2023-01-14 11:47 -
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by Masha Medov
on 2023-01-14 00:17 -
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by Logan Mountain
on 2023-01-13 19:04ya ... "why" changes were made aside ... it would be great to be able to customise any of these sorts of things ... maybe a list of prompts and the ability to choose between main body and side bar ... then either as an addition or if that is too difficult, the ability to change the order of prompts in any article
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by Patchwork Veneficium
on 2023-01-13 02:19 -
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by Madcool610
on 2023-01-12 23:15 -
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by michaelthominks
on 2023-01-12 21:19 -
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by Autumn Fae
on 2023-01-12 17:13 -
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by Dalf32
on 2023-01-11 06:51 -
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by NyxxApocalypse
on 2023-01-10 22:06 -
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by Tijmuhn
on 2023-01-09 19:52 -
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by blurrito
on 2023-01-09 17:11 -
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by A Lusty Mimic
on 2023-01-09 01:07 -
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by Alishahr
on 2023-01-08 19:17 -
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by A Wild Skeleton
on 2023-01-08 03:00I certainly agree that the devs ought to not alter the positioning of where prompts are displayed - it messes about with worlds where creators have designed things to fit the pre-existing style. As mentioned below, the recent repositioning of the sexuality prompt from the sidebar to the main body of text was a bit awkward - I had to go through all the characters I'd created and alter the useful 1-word descriptions because they'd all been moved over into the main body of the text. Allowing creators to choose where prompts are displayed may be tricky but I think would be helpful.
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by SyntaxChick
on 2023-01-07 19:56 -
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by Jingletail
on 2023-01-07 18:55 -
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by A Roaring Orc
on 2023-01-07 13:05It's things like this that make me think it is simply safer to rely purely on your own usage of BBCode to dictate what goes where.
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by Damparo
on 2023-01-07 08:41 -
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by devinsxdesigns
on 2023-01-07 05:54I'm not sure how complicated this is, and admittedly I haven't explored any custom article templates yet, but I would love the ability to decide which things go in the sidebar without creating adding them manually to the sections tab, if only because then I have to make that CSS match the generator ones which can be frustrating. Perhaps this could be achieved through adding custom "sections" where you fill in info for both the prompt/answer specifically to add to the sidebar?
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by BetweenTime
on 2023-01-07 01:26 -
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by Willow H.R. Harper
on 2023-01-06 17:02 -
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by FictionFan1995
on 2023-01-06 12:34 -
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by Rilameth
on 2023-01-06 10:42 -
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by A Glamorous Mlem
on 2023-01-06 08:03This has been a hotly debated topic for some time, and everyone keeps arguing about this, which is why it keeps moving around. Let's face it, NO ONE is going to be happy about it, so stop badgering the devs about it. They're doing what they can.
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by A Fierce Dragon
on 2023-01-06 05:11I agree. It was really quite annoying and disruptive when the "sexuality" prompt changed from in the sidebar to in the main body of the text - particularly since they didn't keep a sidebar option.
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by ano19920
on 2023-01-06 02:10YES. THE READING FLOW. I move character information around quite a bit sometimes because of this.
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by mechablue
on 2023-01-05 21:08 -
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by A Glamorous Dragon
on 2023-01-05 20:46I agree! I want to be able to choose what sections (main article or side panel) prompts or info appear in, but ideally want to drag and drop each prompt into the exact order I want them in. To me it would make a lot of sense if this was a feature of Custom Templates, and is how I originally expected them to work.
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+300
by ChrisJWalker
on 2023-01-05 20:22
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