Effectively, it’s again to highschool season and we now have some World Anvil updates for you guys! These upgrades are based mostly on suggestions we’ve been gathering from YOU GUYS – each from our annual Forge the Future survey, and from studying suggestions and have requests you’ve despatched us!
And, in fact, a big thanks to our staff, who collect your suggestions, design, check and optimize these superior upgrades for you guys! ❤️
What’s new on this spherical of World Anvil updates?
Right here’s a spherical up of the adjustments we’ve made on this newest replace:
- Upgraded Fast Create button and course of
- Upgraded Fast Edit course of
- Streamlined Article administration
- Upgraded secrets and techniques
- Upgraded choices from search
- Small however useful optimizations to: the aspect bar menu, Timelines, Sport Grasp skills, Fast Notes, To Do listing
- … and a few bug fixes too!
(As all the time, our most up to date supply of assist for World Anvil is our LEARN part! If it’s been some time since this weblog was printed, test there for the newest updates!)
⚒️ New Combi-Create button!
The primary of our World Anvil updates is our new create button on the backside proper. It’s now a COMBI-Create button! The Chevron aspect is the place you’ll be able to create new classes, maps, and so forth. similar to earlier than. It simply seems snazzier…
However the +Hammer create button? Effectively, that’s the place the occasion is…
🔨 New +Hammer Fast Create Course of!
We bought a bunch of suggestions from you guys on our fast article creation course of, so we’ve given it an overhaul! It’s sooner and requires with fewer clicks, and also you get extra choices (if you would like them)! Right here’s how the brand new course of goes:
- Click on on the Inexperienced hammer, and a mannequin window will seem!
- Choose the template you need
- Add a title (and no matter you wish to)!
…and also you’re achieved! It autosaves instantly, and also you’ll see a inexperienced affirmation flag on the underside left at any time when it saves. Once you’re achieved writing, you’ll be able to both “Go to Full Edit”, “Create one other” or simply the X within the high proper to return to what you have been engaged on. However you’ll discover from the image under there are extra choices too!
You’ll be able to hold it easy and simply add a header and some bullet factors (, Agile Worldbuilding fashion). However you are able to do an entire bunch extra from this fast create display screen too (if you wish to!)
- Change the icon! You’ll be able to click on on the icon subsequent to the title and alter it! Simply search and choose your new fave. I can personally assure that pizza, cheese, dinosaurs and space-cats are actually all attainable. You’re welcome. 😉
- Recategorize your article: click on the “In: ▶” above the title and select your dad or mum article or class! By default, your article will probably be uncategorized on creation.
- Add tags: click on the spherical tag icon underneath the title so as to add your tags
- Add a canopy picture by dragging and dropping it on the highest a part of the window
- For some templates (just like the character template), you’ll be able to drag and drop a portrait picture. (Quickly you’ll be capable to select out of your present pictures as nicely)
- Add sidebar content material on the appropriate hand aspect (underneath the Character portrait within the above picture)
- Change Privateness, Revealed standing and add subscriber teams! Click on the padlock icon to disclose sliders for article standing. In case your article is ready to non-public, a spherical “folks” icon seems, permitting you to pick out subscriber teams who can see this text!
- Add storyteller seeds (Guild Solely) underneath Superior choices. You can even select to make your storytellers seeds seen to anybody who can see the article.
- Copy URL, Point out hyperlink and Block hyperlink: click on the three dots are the highest proper of the window to disclose these choices! Good for linking your new article straight into what you’ve been engaged on.
✏️ New Fast Edit
that beautiful, shiny new modal window for creating articles I used to be simply telling you about? Effectively, it’s additionally the brand new fast edit, so that you’ll have entry to all these choices from fast edit too! Fast Edit could be reached from each Article Administration (sidebar) and Search (sidebar or Ctrl+Okay).
📝Streamlined Article administration
We heard from you guys, and ran some stats, and the jury’s verdict is in: nobody was utilizing the direct fast edit choice within the Article Administration system. It was simply taking over area.
In order a part of these World Anvil updates, you’ll now go on to fast edit whenever you click on on an article title! And you’ll nonetheless go on to full edit by clicking the wrench icon. That additionally means we’ve been capable of streamline the article administration interface a bit extra.
🤫Secrets and techniques are actually extra outstanding… and there’s a superb cause for it!
Secrets and techniques have been moved out of the Superior Instruments on the left sidebar menu. They’re now simply above Superior Instruments on the left hand menu, represented by the padlock icon.
Secrets and techniques are additionally even faster and simpler to create now.
- Open secrets and techniques from the left sidebar menu
- Click on on the create button
- New secrets and techniques creation modal window seems!
You’ll additionally be capable to edit your secrets and techniques from the aspect panel:
- Open secrets and techniques from the left sidebar menu
- Choose the key you wish to edit from the listing
- A brand new fast edit modal window will permit you to edit or replace a secret AS you’re employed in your articles, timelines, maps, and so forth!
For those who noticed our earlier launch, we’ve additionally made secrets and techniques reveal-able to everybody. This implies, when the second is correct in your RPG marketing campaign, or on the climax of your e-book launch, you’ll be able to reveal important secrets and techniques to the world! That’s why we’ve made them extra accessible – we’ve already seen you utilizing extra of them. A observe that grandmasters and above may fashion secrets and techniques.
Unsure how secrets and techniques work? Learn the LEARN information to secrets and techniques or take a look at our workflow for maintaining secrets and techniques in your World Anvil world!
🔎 World Anvil updates for Search panel
We’ve additionally upgraded our search panel! Everytime you click on the search icon on the high left, or use Ctrl+Okay, you’ll be capable to search your lively world.
As earlier than, you’ll see the “proceed working” earlier than you seek for something, serving to you shortly navigate between your most up-to-date work. Clicking on an article title now takes you to shiny new fast edit window.
Based mostly in your suggestions, we’ve additionally optimized all of the icons that seem on mouseover! From left to proper, the are actually:
- Preview: upgraded from “fast view”
- Full Edit: no change
- Copy URL: copies the URL of the entity (new!)
- Copy [entity] hyperlink: the identical because the earlier “Copy BBCode hyperlink”
- Copy [entity] Block: the identical because the earlier “Copy BBCode Block”
- View in World: no change
🍫 Sidebar menu adjustments
As talked about above, we’ve introduced secrets and techniques up on the aspect menu, and rejigged issues so essentially the most used issues are greater up. An vital one for For Sport Masters: we’ve eliminated the duplicate hyperlink to Campaigns that was within the sidebar, as you’ll be able to already transfer between Worlds, Campaigns and RPG Characters from the entity switcher on the high of the interface!
⏳Timelines adjustments
Following your suggestions, occasions and eras are actually faster to create! We’ve additionally separated the creation of occasions from the creation of eras utilizing the button bar on the backside of the display screen. Aaaaaaand we’ve streamlined the interface a bit for whilst you’re filling in your occasions, too! The extra superior choices are tucked underneath an accordion and out of the best way… however nonetheless there should you want them!
🎲Sport Grasp upgrades
Storytellers can now see their gamers’ secret journals and statblocks. Beforehand, non-public journals and statblocks might solely be seen by the participant. So now you’ll be able to cross secret notes to your GM by way of your journals and stat block! 😀
🎵 Upgraded pinned pocket book
Do you know you’ll be able to pin your pocket book to your interface? Yup, since our replace earlier this 12 months, you’ll be able to pin your pocket book to your interface as a nifty yellow button, permitting you to write down in your pocket book on the fly, and even retailer bits of CSS and BBCode in there (if you wish to). If you wish to do this,
- Click on the up-chevron on the brand new Create combi-button
- Hover over “Be aware”
- …and click on the push pin icon that seems!
You’ll get a yellow button of your very personal.
Anyway, we’ve upgraded the fashion of the notes pop up, so it’s slicker and prettier. Much more cause to pin these to your interface! 😀
✅MOAR SPACE to your ever-growing ToDo lists!
We’ve additionally upgraded and optimized your ToDo listing panel, so there’s much more area for that listing of articles you’re undoubtedly going to publish certainly one of today…
(By the best way, you too can pin the ToDo listing in the identical manner because the pocket book! Simply click on the Double Chevron within the backside proper, and scroll down for the ToDo listing!)
Is there extra coming? 👀
We’re dedicated to bettering World Anvil day by day, and we’ll be right here for you should you need assistance with any of the brand new upgrades. In reality, we now have a really juicy one popping out later this month… and should you’re a part of our beta tester group – our Alchemists Council, it’s possible you’ll have already got seen it!
If not, be sure to’re subscribed to the weblog, or our socials (Instagram, Bluesky, Fb, Youtube, Twitter) , so that you don’t miss it when it goes public!
And naturally, we learn and take into account Each. Single. Characteristic. Request. I’m not kidding. We focus on all of them. You’ll be able to submit one right here (simply test to see if it’s already been submitted first!). And should you discover any bugs, you’ll be able to all the time report them right here and our devs will do their best possible to assist! Simply search first to see if it has already been reported!
