Novel-It Docs

07 World Building Management

World building database and notes

The world building feature forms an addon function to locations and items. Not every genre of novel will require it.

FEAT-0701 World building list board

StatusIn Progress
Phase1
ExtendsFEAT-0001 - Entity list board

Description

The world building list board displays all world building items belonging to the current novel. As world building items have no subordinate entities of their own, the board displays world building item cards only, with no parent summary section.

FEAT-0702 Add world building item

StatusIn Progress
Phase1
ExtendsFEAT-0004 - Add entity

Description

In addition to the properties inherited from the base entity, world building items have the following properties:

  • Type (e.g. Religion, Culture, Technology Level, Rules and Laws, Historical Timeline)

FEAT-0703 Edit world building item

StatusIn Progress
Phase1
ExtendsFEAT-0002 - Edit entity

Description

The following properties are read-only in edit mode:

FEAT-0704 Archive world building item

StatusDraft
Phase2
ExtendsFEAT-0005 - Archive entity

Description

No world building-specific extensions to the base behaviour.

FEAT-0705 Unarchive world building item

StatusDraft
Phase2
ExtendsFEAT-0003 - Archived entity list board

Description

No world building-specific extensions to the base behaviour.

FEAT-0706 Delete world building item

StatusDraft
Phase2
ExtendsFEAT-0006 - Delete entity

Description

When a world building item is deleted, any manuscript text that refers to it by name remains unchanged.

FEAT-0707 Duplicate world building item

StatusDraft
Phase2
ExtendsFEAT-0007 - Duplicate entity

Description

No world building-specific extensions to the base behaviour.

FEAT-0708 World building item relocation

StatusDraft
Phase4
ExtendsFEAT-0011 - Cross-novel relocation

Description

No world building-specific extensions to the base behaviour.

FEAT-0709 World building item sharing

StatusDraft
Phase4
ExtendsFEAT-0009 - Entity sharing

Description

No world building-specific extensions to the base behaviour.

FEAT-0710 World building item relationships

StatusIn Progress
Phase1
ExtendsFEAT-0010 - Entity relationships

Description

No world building-specific extensions to the base behaviour.