A few word count fixes in this release.
When a chapter was archived or deleted, the word counts for the parent part and novel were not updated to reflect the change. Separately, deleting a scene also failed to update the word count of its parent chapter, part, or novel. Archiving and restoring scenes were already working correctly.
These issues are now fixed.
A small but important bug fix today. When you register a new account, the application must redirect you to the login page. During Phase 1 test run 1, I found it logged you straight into the application. Version v0.4.1 rectifies this issue.
A somewhat larger patch (some might argue “feature”) this time around that focused on standardizing the layout and styling of the cards that are used to navigate between elements in the application. All cards in the novel structure now feature Edit, Archive, and Delete buttons. The cards in the planning modules (Characters, Locations, and Items) just have an Edit button for now. The Archive and Delete features are not included in Phase 1. Finally, you can now drag-and-drop to reorder all cards on all boards.
Another small patch to add some properties that were missing from the Novel:
This is a very small patch release to correct any status values in scenes that are not aligned with the current Feature SPecification.
Unless you’ve been using Novel-It prior to v0.2.1 this will have no effect on your application.
Version v0.1.8, released today, fixes a bug with the FEAT-0219 Archive chapter feature where clicking, on the Archive button resulted in an error.
Novel-It version v0.1.7 fixes a minor bug on the password reset form where the field labels were not being displayed correctly.
Novel-It v0.1.6 fixes an issue that carries the obscure title “Vendor all external frontend dependencies”. What on earth does that mean?
When an application, such as Novel-It, is developed it sometimes (often) relies on external code libraries that are pulled foim the Internet everytime the application is run. For example, Novel-It uses external libraries to provide the ability to drag and drop the chapter and scene cards and external libraries are used to provide the fonts used.
I’ve rolled two important fixes into this patch release:
If you created a bulleted (unordered) or numbered (ordered) list in the scene editor then the bullets or numbers did not display when you clicked the Preview button. You still got an indented list, but without the bullets or numbers. This is now resolved.
gunicorn is the command you run to start the application server. In the installation guide the command wad given as:
Novel-It was originally “released” to GitHub as v0.1.0 - a working application but not yet ready for a formal release. As with the way of things, as soon as I’d uploaded it, I started to find a few bugs and there have been a number of patch releases since then. This post summarises those patches. Going forwards there will be individual posts for each Novel-It update.