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Why aren't Writers allowed to edit published articles which they authored?
Probably so the owner of the world is protected if the writer becomes angry and wants to change what the owner has already approved. That's the reason I can think of off the top of my head but I can ask for specific reasons if you want me to?
That's a fair point. I asked on the Discord, and it sounds like there may be some interest in adding a level above Writer to match this case. I have submitted a feature request so my opinion is noted. This is third-hand knowledge, so don't quote me on that!
Yeah, I'm hoping on some more levels for writers for the scribe update. :3
Id love a level where the players in my campaign can add things without me needing to untick draft on every page. Id love them to do everything except DELETE and View Secrets or GM notes.
There's feature request button on every backend page :)
Perhaps a better feature is a checkbox on each article "owner can publish" so you can lock those with the writer role overall but give them publish rights on certain articles, like a TTRPG PC's character article. Not everyone sees heroes/campaigns in its current state as sufficient for how we are doing things today, and they may not use it or may use it in combination with something like this. I did create an enhancement request about this, about 6 months or so ago.
Yeah, there is still only one dev working on the whole of WA so requests can take time. Did you request it via the Jira board? If it was during the transition from Trello to Jira it might have fallen through the cracks as well. There will be an update on writer permissions during the Scribe update as well.
Yeah, there is still only one dev working on the whole of WA so requests can take time. Did you request it via the Jira board? If it was during the transition from Trello to Jira it might have fallen through the cracks as well. There will be an update on writer permissions during the Scribe update as well.
How do authors notify each other when they've added or updated an article?
OK thanks a lot Dragon, I'll try that out. I have to assume this is somewhere on the feature request list...communication between authors in the same tool your authoring in seems like a no-brainer. Anyway, I appreciate your assistance...cheers!
Yeah, Dimi has a long list of features to add. XD; ...there will be a Scribe update coming sometime next year , hopefully something like that is included in that update. :)
i cant seem to find this ? there's nothing underneath 'followers'
If you mean the Access right page it's currently in the "Setting & Tools" section.
HI! I have a Grandmaster account. Can I add co-authors who are using the free version of Worldanvil? Will they still have the same benefits listed in the co-author? And can they make their own worlds using my account?
Hello, :) Yes, as a Grandmaster you can have co-authors that have free accounts and they will be able to do anything that a co-author can do. Letting them use your account is a breach of the site's Terms and Conditions. https://www.worldanvil.com/terms-of-service#8
Thanks for the speedy reply! One more thing: Can my co-authors add worlds of their own to the list of worlds I make using MY account, or are they limited to making worlds only in THEIR account?
Your benefits do not extend to worlds they create, they only grant additional feature writes to co-authors on your worlds so that their guild level is not an inhibiting factor to them being able to help on the project. Hopefully, they end up liking the features enough to join the guild themselves, as guild memberships almost exclusively fund the site. :)
Why is it only available for guild members? I feel like the ability to collaborate is an intrinsic part of the world-building process, not a bonus or addon.
The ability to communicate and have a community is absolutely intrinsic to worldbuilding, but collaboration, while nice, is not a necessity. For this reason, the collaboration features, as well as other non-critical-but-very-awesome features, are restricted to Guild Membership. Please keep in mind that the prices and tiers are designed to be as fair as possible to both the users and the Founders, and that 99% of the features of World Anvil are developed by one person. Adsense makes very little revenue for a site like this, so it relies on guild memberships to keep the lights on.
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Cannot find the World Anvil Codex, nor Access Rights.... Am a Grandmaster level subscriber.
The Access rights is under the SETTINGS & TOOLS header in the left sidebar under your world.
Can you make someone a coauthor of a single article? I'd like my players in my campaign to be able to edit their own character articles without also having access to all the hidden stuff on my world.
If you make them a "writer" they can only write drafts, you will have to publish them. They shouldn't be able to see private stuff in your world.
They can't see private articles. (Editors and co-owners can)
Unfortunately, my players (whom I've made writers and/or advanced writers) quickly discovered that they can indeed see articles they shouldn't have access to. As soon as they click the Articles link at the top of any page where it's available (i.e., while they're viewing an article they have rights to), they are taken into the articles directory backend where they can click around and see the vignette and excerpt of every private and/or public article that exists whether they have subscriber permissions to it or not. They can't edit the article, but typically the damage is already done when the entire article's existence was supposed to be hidden from them.. This is another reason I've had to tell my players to bail on WA for now. I' trying to run a campaign with select PC knowledge and it's just not currently possible to keep the walls up.
This has just become a huge problem for me as well. It's a shame that the backend is open for all to see
Can I give my advanced writers edit access to specific articles, even ones they didn't create?
Under "Open Advanced Tools & Options"->"Special Actions" you can change the creator of the article. If you change this to their users they will be able to edit that article.
I see "move article to another world" and "export article" in that section, but nothing else.
Hm, then it might be a higher tier guild privilege. (sorry for the late reply, haven't had computer access for a couple of days)
My Co-Author and I both have Guild Accounts (my level is Grand Master). We've found that she cannot access/see the Manuscripts I create, which is a problem. I've looked at every level I can find, tried turning Access from Private to Public in every way that seems to exist, tried "Publishing" a trial Manuscript, but still the problem persists. We both need to be able to access (and edit, etc.) Manuscripts, otherwise we've lost our main reason for subscribing. We seem to have no problem with Articles, just Manuscripts. This is beyond frustrating for us both; so much time spent trying to fix this, which we could have used in writing. Help?
Seems like the only place where it's possible to find manuscripts that you haven't written yourself is in the https://www.worldanvil.com/community/manuscripts As far as I know (I have only used that feature for myself yet though) the co-author feature doesn't work on it yet. (beta reading should be working though.) If you join the discord you can ask more people who have used manuscripts more than I have under the #manuscripts-development channel. You can also read more here: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/WorldAnvilCodex/a/manuscripts
It may be planned for later (Manuscripts are bran new and all).
But there is a work around atm.
If one of you sends the link of the edit side of the manuscript to the other they, can also edit the same one.
This is how me and my co-author do it.
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Use good communication, cause you can very easily overwrite each other's work!
@Lengna Thanks for the tip! Going to see if we can figure out how to do that with a test Manuscript before anything we can't bear to lose. ;-)
Is there a way for me to share drafts with others not on WA?
No, they have to have a WA account to see private/draft articles.
I have some people that I would like to work with to provide them access to my articles and one or two of the "manuscripts" that I have started, but I have other manuscripts that I am not ready to show/want to keep separate and unread. Short of moving those to another world, is there a way within these settings to continue to keep everything "Private" and allow a writer/co-author access to only specific pieces of my work? I'm not seeing ways of breaking down that access within the manuscripts.
Afaik you can’t co-author a manuscript yet. You’ll have to ask the person who wrote the manuscript codex article. https://www.worldanvil.com/w/WorldAnvilCodex/a/manuscripts
Can my co-owner view and edit manuscripts?
Hi! This might be a stupid question, but do both co-authors have to be guild members, or does only one of them have to have a guild membership? Thanks! (*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ*.゚
The owner of the world who wants co-authors have to be a guildmember, the co-author doesn't have to be.
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I feel like having the ability to chat easily with your co-authors would be helpful. Maybe that already exists and I just missed it?
If you have a character active you can pm other characters. Otherwise you can suggest it as a feature: https://worldanvil.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1/user/login?destination=portal%2F1%2Fgroup%2F1%2Fcreate%2F7