Move from World Almanac to Mechanics

[Happydevil43]

Hi Guys,

Is there a simple way (aka not having to copy, paste, delete, rinse and repeat) to move topics from the world almanac to the mechanics reference.

In my early days of inputting data I put a whole heap of monsters, treasures etc in the world almanac but thinking that they probably should be in the mechanics reference, so I would like to move them to tidy up my realm a bit.

Cheers

[tkarn]

I think this is not possible.

[daplunk]

There was a way... not sure if it still works... never did it myself.

It involved changing the categories of the article somehow and it flipped it from one section to the next.

[kbs666]

It is possible.

http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost....97&postcount=5

[Bidmaron]

Search for posts by rob in mid-late 2016

[tkarn]

Originally Posted by kbs666

It is possible.

http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost....97&postcount=5

Ah, OK.
Thank you. Didn't know that.

[rob]

Thanks, @kbs666!

[GThiel]

Rob, could you give us a "simple" explanation on why it is so difficult to move something from the World Almanac to Mechanics Reference? (As a programmer, I know I really hated it when I was asked to explain "Why cant I do that SIMPLE thing?")

[rob]

The reason is an intentional design decision and not technical.

The distinction between story and mechanics is at a fundamental level in our view of things. Moving something around between different story-focused categories is easy. Moving something around between different mechanics-focused categories is easy. Moving between the two is intentionally "just not done", since making it easy would blur the distinction and encourage users to be cavalier in keeping the two separate.

It's similar to the way that APIs are often designed with intentional barriers between certain aspects to avoid confusion, conflation, or abuse. Or the notion of Chinese Walls in business environments.

Hope this helps!

[ri_gamer]

I'm having trouble with step 3. Change the user-created category from topic to article, or vice versa. I can't seem to be able to figure out how to change the new user-created category to a topic from an article.