Can you reorder chapters?

[porneia]

Can you reorder how chapters are listed?

For example, if a story looks like this . . .
1.1 - Pick your color.
...2.1 - Orange
...2.2 - Yellow
...2.3 - Green

Could I insert a new chapter 2.1 and have the other three move down without losing their comments and likes? So the new order would appear like this . . .
1.1 - Pick your color. (old)
...2.1 - Red (new)
...2.2 - Orange (old)
...2.3 - Yellow (old)
...2.4 - Green (old)

I have a feeling the answer is "no", but I thought it couldn't hurt to ask.

Thank you.

 

[gene.sis]

I have a feeling the answer is "no", but I thought it couldn't hurt to ask.

Your feeling is correct.

There are some suggestions which are related to this:
- Moving/reordering chapters
- Newer threads posted to top.
- Resort Story Options
- Ability to show choices in alphabetical order

 

[porneia]

That is what I thought.

As always, thank you for the knowledge!

 

[bobbobbobthethir]

That's unfortunate. I'm planning a story that could really use the feature, but I guess the use-case is rare enough that it wouldn't be worth it to spend time figuring out an elegant implementation.

 

[gene.sis]

I guess the use-case is rare enough that it wouldn't be worth it to spend time figuring out an elegant implementation.

Well, I think the ability to reorder chapters has some merits, though only the story owner should be able to do it.

So you can vote for one of the suggestions I linked above. (The first of them is currently in the Top 20 of the suggestions.)

I'm planning a story that could really use the feature

Why would you need that for a story which you haven't published yet?

 

[bobbobbobthethir]

So you can vote for one of the suggestions I linked above. (The first of them is currently in the Top 20 of the suggestions.)

Thanks for the tip, voted!

Why would you need that for a story which you haven't published yet?

The story is going to heavily utilize a loop (a series of chapters that cycle back to a main page), but I'd like for future chapters to be able to show up above some of the current ones for clarity. Basically, the links for the page whose children I'd like to be able reorder would look like:
- Storyline A1 - "creative title"
- Storyline A2 - "creative title"
- Storyline B1 - "creative title"
- Storyline B2 - "creative title"
- Storyline C1 - "creative title"
- Storyline C2 - "creative title"

and as you can see, if I want to add in a "Storyline A3", it would appear at the bottom and be a little confusing/weird.

Maybe there's already a good way to implement this, but I'm ignorant of it if so.

 

[gene.sis]

If you know that you will need additional chapters in between later, you can add draft chapters to your story.
- A1 published
- A2 published
- A3 draft
- A4 draft
- B1 published

(Currently, all draft chapters get published when the story gets approved, so you have to do that after publishing the introduction.)

 

[bobbobbobthethir]

That's a neat trick, thanks!