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Manuscript editing UI not showing (viewing published pages works, trying to edit a manuscript doesn't)

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· Manuscripts ·
By Urara04 on 04/09/2024
· Assigned to Dimitris

When trying to edit a manuscript, the usual UI should show you the left sidebar with all the parts of the story, the right sidebar with the tools for the writer, and the middle block with the story itself. My account doesn't have that anymore- it worked until a certain point, but after fooling around a little bit with editing the writing background and font, the complete left, middle and right sidebar are gone. The only thing that is available is the little green +, and the menu to show or hide the sidebars (I tried to open the sidebars that way, didn't work). When making a new scene using the green +, it opens a JSON in my browser instead, with the following text (directly copied):   {"id":"593b073b-5cb6-4f31-b055-c0468168f2c8","url":"\/world\/manuscript\/part\/593b073b-5cb6-4f31-b055-c0468168f2c8\/load"}   The sidebar to access the rest of the world still works, only the manuscript part is missing. I can access published pages, and the main menu for the manuscripts. But trying to edit a single manuscript doesn't work, which applies to all seven manuscripts of my single world.

Steps to Reproduce

0. Create two manuscripts
1. Change the editing background color of the first manuscript to a pastel pink and the font color to dark pink
2. Switch to the second manuscript
3. Change the editing background color of the second manuscript to a pastel green and the font color to dark green
4. Switch to the first manuscript
5. Try to reset the background color and the font color to their base colors by removing the added hexcodes
  I'm unclear what happened after that, but after this it didn't work anymore
I don't have the exact hexcodes anymore

Operating System

Windows

Browser

Firefox

History

Dimitris @ 18 Apr, 2024 02:41:45 Assignee

Hello there :) First of all the colours are account level not manuscript level so setting them in one manuscript sets them in all. Once you have set colors sadly you cannot / should not just remove them because the system will interpret the lack of color as a color.   You can set a color again and this will work - we will be fixing this in the future but for you to continue working now, all you need to do is to actually set a hex color for the background and color of your font   If you do need further help on that please let me know!   DImitris  

Dimitris @ 18 Apr, 2024 02:41:52 Assignee
Assigned Dimitris
Dimitris @ 18 Apr, 2024 02:41:59 Assignee
set this bug to closed
SoulLink @ 19 Apr, 2024 02:13:36 Moderator

Hey Dimitris for future reference.   The UI crashed due to the content of the background color being two forward slashes //. As a result the user could not fix it themselves. They gave me access via a token and I fixed the issue via the API for them.