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Question regarding "Begin Reading" button in profile.

Postby Seven Rain » December 13th, 2011, 2:53 pm

Sorry if this has been asked but I searched around and didn't see a thread so if this has been asked or touched on and I simply didn't see it then my apologies.
My comic uses a custom menu, so I can manually link to the first page of the actual story with a button on the menu bar, but I recently noticed that clicking "Begin Reading" from the profile...
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(You know, this button:)
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... Still automatically links to the first page in the entire archive, which just happens to be some random artwork in the Misc. section, as that is the first section I have set to show in the archive. I'd like to have that button link to the first page of the story without having to rearrange my archive, which would cause some annoying complications.

Is there some way to manually select which page the "Begin Reading" button on the comic's profile links to like I can with my menu and navigation buttons?
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Re: Question regarding "Begin Reading" button in profile.

Postby trenton_dawn » December 13th, 2011, 3:13 pm

No, currently there isn't. Actually, now that I look at it, my comic has the same problem...
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Re: Question regarding "Begin Reading" button in profile.

Postby Seven Rain » December 13th, 2011, 3:14 pm

Hrmm... Well that's a shame. Mayhaps a new suggestion thread would be in order then?
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Re: Question regarding "Begin Reading" button in profile.

Postby blankd » December 13th, 2011, 3:24 pm

I think it's determined by chronology, have you tried editing your real first page's post date?
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Re: Question regarding "Begin Reading" button in profile.

Postby Seven Rain » December 13th, 2011, 3:32 pm

blankd wrote:I think it's determined by chronology, have you tried editing your real first page's post date?

The first page of the story is my oldest page, so it's not determined by upload date, unfortunately.
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Re: Question regarding "Begin Reading" button in profile.

Postby blankd » December 13th, 2011, 3:35 pm

(Checked your site)

It would appear that the reason it does this is because it's a chapter that precedes your other chapters. (Unchaptered defaults to going to the front as well.)

EDIT: In lieu of this, this does sound like something that should be fixed/modified.
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Re: Question regarding "Begin Reading" button in profile.

Postby Seven Rain » December 13th, 2011, 3:37 pm

Yeah, I know. The problem isn't that I don't know why, it's that the sections can't really be moved around without messing some stuff up.
All I can think of really is switching it with the Lore. At least that'd be a better place for new readers to be directed to than some random homage artwork, though I'd rather have the Lore be adjacent to the regular story... But I digress.
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Re: Question regarding "Begin Reading" button in profile.

Postby Vair » December 13th, 2011, 3:48 pm

You can make the very first page, in your 'unchaptered' artwork section be another redirect page... so anyone clicking the 'Begin reading' link will go to this "redirect page" which then has a link (in description or something) that links to your real first page.

Will that work?
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Re: Question regarding "Begin Reading" button in profile.

Postby Seven Rain » December 13th, 2011, 4:03 pm

Vair wrote:You can make the very first page, in your 'unchaptered' artwork section be another redirect page... so anyone clicking the 'Begin reading' link will go to this "redirect page" which then has a link (in description or something) that links to your real first page.

Will that work?

A bit of a roundabout method, but it could certainly work. I could simply make some fancy title/introduction page of some sort.
I'll keep that in mind, thanks.



*EDIT*
Oops, forgot all about marking this as resolved. Go ahead and move this to Resolved Topics, guys. The thread title is too long to edit it in there, but yeah. Got my answers and as good of a solution as I'll likely come by.
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