Community Suggestion: Customized addable sections
Customized addable sections
Let's use this default question form as an excellent example to what I mean:
When I create my characters, their story develops over arcs. In each arc they do something or involved in something else.
Normally this works fine for me as I can use headers to distinguish. However, when I would publish my world, revealing what all my characters do would be a massive spoiler! For now, all the information on them is in the general info box, or I can send them all to Personal History (I absolutely don't want to use Secrets, it contradicts the purpose), but what if I want to reveal only the first arc and reveal the others as the time passes?
Back to the example- you can see that the first question holds a basic story. The next header shows a whole other stage of the story, and the third one feels like we've just gone through the whole story.
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Glover grew up in a fully clothed store until vicious cats tore it apart when the owner left for Ibiza.
How does this feature request address the current situation?
Glover was illegally charged with gun trafficking, but he needed a personal handgun to murder stinky.
What are other uses for this feature request?
Glover discovers that everything he knew was a lie- the owner was Lumo the dog all this time!
My suggestion is to create Custom Labels in the focus mode, that their titles can be customized too, which I then can control their visibility, and open access to everyone will only include header 1, and my subscriber groups can be given access to the other headers as they progress along the story.
If such customization is possible, I'd love to know how to do that.
Thank you!
The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! We're closing this because this is already possible with secrets. Using the example you used, you can have one secret for the first arc info, another one for the second arc, and so on. Then, you can make each individual secret public as the information is revealed. When a secret is public, it becomes visible in the articles it's embedded in. See the guide to secrets for more information: https://www.worldanvil.com/learn/secrets/secrets9/300 Votes · +701 points
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+300
by Thowan
on 2025-02-12 20:29This seems absolutely vital for my campaign where I want my players to contribute to my world anvil but then I have to pick and choose what information I can post because of how hard it is to quantify it. Nevermind the fact you can't hide your own sections that you add to the general information. I want to be able to have general information for my character that isn't always player facing. It'd also keep me from adding that information in a subsection that already exists, that then adds a header that leads to nowhere (think mental characteristics and the sections you can add info to those that you don't want the players to see).
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+100
by AlleriaPax
on 2025-02-04 12:04 -
-1
by Akmedrah
on 2025-02-02 09:55 -
-100
by Those2Nerds
on 2025-01-28 15:07There are already features that cover this. Spoilers are available to everyone. Secrets (available to all guild members) and subscriber containers (grandmaster+) let you choose who sees what content. Secrets can be made public to remove all restrictions once it's been fully revealed. Reused heading structures can be put into the notebook for easy copy/pasting or into a basic custom template with no code needed. These tools could possibly be made more accessible or easier to use, but they do already exist.
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+1
by WeStanNikolai
on 2025-01-28 09:22You can already kind of do this! If you use sections and containers, you can affect visibility of specific parts within a single prompt-box - and if you specifically want to enable only smoe of your subscriber-groups, you can use subscriber-containers.
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+100
by releasethequackin
on 2025-01-26 06:43 -
+1
by Michael Chandra
on 2025-01-25 18:32Use a subscription group that nobody is in, put those sections in the invisible-subcontainer, then 1 subcontainer at a time, switch the subscriber-group it is assigned to, so that the readers can then read it afterwards?
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+300
by ss2020
on 2025-01-25 16:17As much as A Fierce Goblin is correct. Creating custom templates is difficult and very limited to the existing template schema. With that said, I relatively sure this has been asked before and denied, but it is a very worth request.
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-300
by A Fierce Goblin
on 2025-01-25 12:27This kind of defeats the idea of having templates in the first place. You can create custom templates, and there are options in the current templates to mark spoilers.
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+300
by Bleichmeister
on 2025-01-25 09:45
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