I thought that if a story had one chapter, it was supposed to take you to the story when you have the "Use Story Index' enabled. I found that it doesn't, it takes you to the index. This is when logged out.
When logged in, you either get Story Indexes or not depending on what your preferences are. It makes no difference what the board default it.
I searched, but didn't see this particular issue.
http://www.farscapefanfic.com/browse.php?type=recent
I don't think that this is a bug. This is the way it is meant to be. Whether you click on a story with 10 chapters, or one chapter, if your site is set to show the story index, the story index will show up. Personal settings can override, but it is overall, one-shots don't get special treatment.
Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
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I'd like to respectfully disagree with this. It may not be a bug, but to my way of thinking it's a definite flaw in the program. In the original version of eFiction, indexes were automatically generated for multi-chapter stories, while single-chapter stories automatically opened on the story itself. This was one of the major selling-point features that drew me to eFiction over other archiving software. It was doable then so there's no discernible reason that the software shouldn't be able to do it now... except that the programmers have opted not to. I've been struggling to find a "fix" for this for a while, because it's one of the major aggravations I encountered with upgrading, and one of the top things the readers on my site complain about-- "Where's the story? Why am I looking at an index page for a drabble?"
Surely, even if you aren't willing to consider it a "bug," there's a "fix" that can be done for those who want it?
Because this was not "the way it (was) meant to be" when the program was originally designed. Emphatically not.
Just turn story index off in the setting... Your users if they are members have the option of turn on or off the story index when they are logged in. Just remember there are two places to turn story index off... in Admin->Settings->Display Settings (Use Story Index: No) and under member's Account Info->Edit Preferences->Display Table of Contents (uncheck it).
If you as admin turn off the story index for things that are multiple chapters it will show the first chapter but at the top of the screen there will be a link called Table of Contents. If they want to look at that they can.
I will admit I wasn't overly crazy about the story index stuff at first, but there are ways to go about it that doesn't have to turn into a nasty grievance. Apparently enough users felt it needed to be a feature so it became one. But there are ways to make it not so much a feature.
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Mucking around in eFiction since circa 2001 (ver. 1.0)
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That's not the point. We do need to have the indexes on our multiple-chapter stories. Some of them are huge. It is needed. It's just both unneeded and a serious impediment on the short stories that are also in the archive... and making two archives, one for drabbles and one for multichapter works, is not a workable solution.
Prior to the upgrade from 1.1 (which I honestly would still be using if anybody had been willing to solve the security issues), that was the way it was, which is why I'm saying that it's not a valid answer to say that making things all-or-nothing like this (either everything has indexes or nothing has indexes) is the way it was meant to be or the only way it can be. It used to be the way we're talking about. That was the original default. We just want that option back, because this all-or-nothing approach means that no matter what we do, people are complaining.
The current approach is that, if you have the index enabled, any story link that doesn't specify a chapter gets booted to the index. I'm fine with that, but I do not see why there can't be an optional if/else line along the lines of "if chapters > 1 (and the rest of the current setup is true) go to the index, else go to the chapter." Even if it's just an optional mod, it needs to be available.
