Characters Not Adding To Sub-Categories

Thanks for that.

I just added "Lucas Buck" and "Gail Emory" as characters under the "Lucas and Gail" sub-category. Now when you click on TV Series > American Gothic > Lucas and Gail (making sure to click the arrow and have it appear on the column on the right), you will see those two characters appear in the list.

You'll need to add these characters to each sub-category that you want them available to (such as "Lucas and Selena" etc). Putting them under the "American Gothic" sub-category won't work since that category itself is locked and people can't use it.

Does that make sense?

Thank you for taking a look!

That's...weird. It definitely did not allow me add the characters under Lucas/Gail last night. I wonder it it's because I unlocked the TV series category. Nadia also tried that.  Did you add them through Categories > TV Series > American Gothic or through Characters? 

I really, really appreciate you helping me, but I need these added under American Gothic. To have to add the character under each pairing would be a nightmare. I have hundreds of fandoms on the site. Sailor Moon alone has over 40 individual pairings and at say, 25 characters added for each of those, I'd be adding 1000 characters just for that fandom alone. And to have to do that for each new fandom that's requested to go onto the site...I'd be a massive undertaking.

There has to be a way to add them to a fandom and see them on the character pane to add, then to select the pairing. When you add characters to sitewide, you can see the characters without even selecting Lucas And Gail with the arrow first. It's always in the characters pane.

I added the characters through the "Characters" page (here).

I can definitely see how having to add them twice would cause that massive workload, so I have a few suggestions:

1) If you want the characters available under "American Gothic", then you'll need to enable members to post directly to the "American Gothic" sub-category. You do this by unlocking that category.

ADVANTAGE: You only have to enter one lot of characters on the "American Gothic" category.
DRAWBACK: Your users will need to select both "TV Series > American Gothic" and "TV Series > American Gothic > Lucas and Gail"

2) You remove the pairings sub-categories and move them to a classification-based system.

ADVANTAGE: Your users only have to select the "American Gothic" category, and then choose a pairing from the "Pairing" field
DRAWBACK: There is currently no way to set pairings/classifications based on categories, so ALL of your pairings will be viewable to everyone trying to add a story

3) You add pairings AND characters to the character lists (e.g., "Pairing: Lucas and Gail", and "Character: Lucas Buck", "Character: Gail Emory" etc)

ADVANTAGE: Your users only have to select the "American Gothic" category
DRAWBACK: There's no guarantee that your users will select both the characters AND the pairings

4) You wait for eFiction 5 to come out, which is going to be on a tag-based system. All of the above becomes moot, as the tags for pairings and characters will be easily searchable, addable and viewable.

ADVANTAGE: Every advantage in the world
DRAWBACK: There isn't a set release date yet, though the magnificent Sheepcontrol is working super-hard to get it done.

None of those options are really viable, I'm afraid, but thank you for the suggestions! I really appreciate you helping me out.

Efiction V5?  Are we skipping V4 entirely? Exciting news though, I can't wait.  :drool:

Just another question, while I have you?

How would I go about making a separate challenges page called Plot Bunny's? I have hundreds of plots for fandoms that I have come up with and am giving away to writers on the site to use (Giving me credit, of course) and I'd like to add them all under their own link, with a submission form like the challenges one. It's essentially the exact same form as the Challenges one, but it'll add plots, not challenges.

I have tried to make duplicates of the challenges.tpl pages, but I'm not just just how many of the script pages are involved. I made a custom page, a new link for the menu and copied the challenges.tpl and renamed it plots, but nothing worked.

Could you please advice what I need to do order to create another form?

None of those options are really viable, I'm afraid, but thank you for the suggestions! I really appreciate you helping me out.

Efiction V5?  Are we skipping V4 entirely? Exciting news though, I can't wait.  :drool:

You just activated my sad-panda-face module 🙁
Yes, v4 was a projected a few years ago, the coder retired, it got abandoned, so next version is going up from scratch, most current problems will be replaced with brand new problems, but still, as you can see we have dedicated people trying to help until v5 is ready to roll.

None of those options are really viable, I'm afraid, but thank you for the suggestions! I really appreciate you helping me out.

Efiction V5?  Are we skipping V4 entirely? Exciting news though, I can't wait.  :drool:

Sorry I couldn't be of more help. I can see from the forum that other people weer also interested in the feature, and it was something on the cards for the V4 release. But now that Sheepcontrol is working on V5 (which will make all of our lives easier), it might just be better to wait it out.

But more information about the changes here.

Just another question, while I have you?

How would I go about making a separate challenges page called Plot Bunny's? I have hundreds of plots for fandoms that I have come up with and am giving away to writers on the site to use (Giving me credit, of course) and I'd like to add them all under their own link, with a submission form like the challenges one. It's essentially the exact same form as the Challenges one, but it'll add plots, not challenges.

I have tried to make duplicates of the challenges.tpl pages, but I'm not just just how many of the script pages are involved. I made a custom page, a new link for the menu and copied the challenges.tpl and renamed it plots, but nothing worked.

Could you please advice what I need to do order to create another form?

To be honest, I think what Lyndsie recommended here is probably the best option. Copying the current Challenges module and renaming it where applicable to call it PlotBunnies or similar.

Alternatively, could you create a new Category called "Plot Bunnies" and post your Plot Bunny challenges under that Category. That way you could link to Challenges that only have the Plot Bunny category applied to them (like you would here for "One Hour Challenges": http://www.destinysgateway.com/browse.php?type=challenges&catid=51)

Instead of creating a page for Plot Bunnies, you'd just create a link in your menu to http://www.destinysgateway.com/browse.php?type=challenges&catid=** (where ** is the number of the Plot Bunnies category).