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[edit]Feature Request:
1. Exporting to HTML - to be able to view the book offline like the view online.
2. Options not only to export the current page, but include all descendants. Maybe you can do something like this:
https://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/help/file-folder-selection.jpg
Checkboxes to Select Topics and SubTopics (Group of pages and Single pages) to export.
Suppress rendering of Template:Wikipedia books discussion
[edit]There's a discussion concerning books at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Suppress rendering of Template:Wikipedia books which may be of interest. --Trialpears (talk) 20:21, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
New book not having book reports generated
[edit]I made the Book:State highways in Georgia (U.S. state) page on September 20, but no book reports have been generated on the talk page. What is wrong? Morriswa (Charlotte Allison) (talk) 06:30, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
- I am not aware of such a thing as book reports here. can you point to an example of what we should be seeing, or to any guidelines? — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 08:22, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
- @Steelpillow: such as that on Book talk:U.S. Route 66. Morriswa (Charlotte Allison) (talk) 13:35, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you. (I haven't paid these any attention for so long I forgot they existed!). Another user posted today on the maintainer's talk page]], about a report formatting problem. @Anomalocaris:, are you able to shed any further light on when reports are generated? — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 17:15, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
- Steelpillow: I don't know how or when the book talk pages are generated. All I know is that the system that generates them has bugs, and if you fix an error on a book talk page, the system re-creates the page with the same error. —Anomalocaris (talk) 18:39, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
- OK, thanks. I have asked the maintainer about it directly, here. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 20:43, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
- Steelpillow: I don't know how or when the book talk pages are generated. All I know is that the system that generates them has bugs, and if you fix an error on a book talk page, the system re-creates the page with the same error. —Anomalocaris (talk) 18:39, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you. (I haven't paid these any attention for so long I forgot they existed!). Another user posted today on the maintainer's talk page]], about a report formatting problem. @Anomalocaris:, are you able to shed any further light on when reports are generated? — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 17:15, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
- @Steelpillow: such as that on Book talk:U.S. Route 66. Morriswa (Charlotte Allison) (talk) 13:35, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
Requested move 23 August 2020
[edit]- The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) ~SS49~ {talk} 08:11, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
- Help:Books → Help:Books (historical)
- Help:Books/for experts → Help:Books
– The Book Creator service is disabled for a long time. Therefore, the beginners guide is invalid. Therefore, mark the beginner's guide as historical and make the expert's guide the only guide. Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 08:04, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose. The premise is false. The Book Creator front end is still working. Only two things have gone; the in-wiki PDF service and a link to it in the site's maim nav tools. Beginners may still create books for rendering by one of the off-wiki services. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 08:31, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose. For the same reasons as user Steelpillow presents. The guide can be updated to remove the references to the obsolete functions.--HugoHelp (talk) 19:38, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose. The Book Creator front end still works. The guide can be updated to reflect the recent status. TharikRish 20:02, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
- FWIW the guide was substantially updated ages ago and I have just mopped-up a few more minor updates. Done and dusted. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 13:07, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
- The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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