Hello all, when I compile my manuscrit, the first chapter is always blank, and then my second chapter is actually my first chapter. It’s doing that in every compilation setting so I suppose the problem comes from the tagging. I check all my chapters are tagged as chapter and I even tryed to create a fake first chapter and erase it but nothing change. Always have a first chapter blank, as if they was a ghost of a first chapter. This is driving me nuts please is someone can help !
I’m assuming you have a hierarchy where each folder is a chapter, with the contents nested inside?
If that’s the case, one way this could happen would be if the Chapter One folder and the Chapter One contents were actually at the same Binder hierarchy level. They’d both get the same Section Layout by default.
I’m having this problem. How do you fix the hierarchy issue?
Drag the contents of the chapter inside the folder for the chapter. 
I figured it out… I had to go into the “General Metadata” menu and manually set every chapter and scene as such in my manuscript. See the screen shot for clarification on where you can find this menu.
As you can see the “Include in Compile > Section Type” is italicized you need to actually set this so that it has a check mark next to it in the drop down menu. Then the text won’t be italicized anymore it will regular font. After I did this I ran another compile and the blank first chapter (with the actual first chapter contents in the second chapter problem was gone).
EDIT: apparently my account is too new for me to upload images so here is a link to the screenshot: https://res.cloudinary.com/mountaintopcoding-127956/image/upload/v1739557852/Scrivner/fixed_hsrewt.png
If the Section Type is italicized, that means that it has been assigned automatically based on the Binder hierarchy. The Project → Project Settings → Section Types pane lets you define what those automatic assignments are.
While manually setting the Chapter and Scene types will certainly work, it shouldn’t be necessary if the automatic assignments are configured in a way that matches your structure.
In your screenshot, the “Chapter Heading” Section Type has been automatically assigned to what appears to be a chapter-level object. You can format “Chapter Headings” (or any other Section Type) with whatever Section Layout you want, but typically the Chapter Heading type is used when all you want is the title of the document, possibly with a number added. Again, if your project is structured differently, you can change this assignment in the Project Settings. Section 7.6 in the manual explains how this works in detail.