When I save a format under My Formats then open another file, the format isn’t available to compile the new project.
I believe you must exit the Scrivener project and it closes and is saved and then when open it , the format should be available for all your projects on the computer. I just did it and the my format did not show up till the project was closed and reopened.
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that worked but it wants me to assign section layouts again. I’m not going through all that confusing BS again. I’ll just put page breaks in MS word.
I would guess that you must have saved the format to Project Formats rather than My Formats.
Go back, Duplicate and Edit it and without changing anything click at Save To: to make sure you save it to My Formats; it will then become available to all your projects.
Mark
when you have the assignments set up how you want do a screen capture of the compile screen with the section assignments, then it is easy to reproduce.
I lied. I got the names mixed up. I am saving the the format correctly and it it not showing up when I open a new project. It’s not working. Bug?
I had to close the project I created the compile format in and then reopen before the compile format was available to other Scrivener projects.
This worked but I like I said I’m not going through all the BS of reassigning section layouts. I wrested with that for 2 weeks with a rep to get everything to work. I like Scrivener but the whole compile procedure and layout needs to be re-imagined. I shouldn’t have to do anything if the format is supposed to be re-usable.
The Section Layouts are part of the Compile Format, but the assignments are not.
Why not? Because you could have used a completely different set of Section Types in the new project, causing the old assignments to either fail completely or give unexpected results.
Consider, for instance, that the built-in Manuscript format might be used for a novel or a poetry collection.
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How about an option where it just works. that would be sweet.
Sadly, the reason why the Compile command is complicated is that “just works” means different things to different people, and even to different projects for the same person.
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You don’t need to go through 2 weeks of hell if the second project’s setup requirement is the same as the first.
Firstly, do a manual backup of your existing project. Better safe than sorry.
Then, using file, save as, save the exiting project under a new name. That’s your new project from now on. The first project still exists under its old name and is accessible and so are its backups. Your new project will backup under its own name–based on the new name you gave your project. So, backups sorted.
Begin stripping [*] the new project of old content but keep at least of one of every section type. The section layouts are there, and they’re already assigned to section types you’ve kept at least one of—so no racking your brain. So, section layouts, section types and assigning types to layouts sorted.
Go ahead and write building your second project like you did the first, your compile formats are all there and you can start running a compile test from day 1 with as little content as you like. So, compiling sorted.
[*] Strip your old content by sending most of it to the trash. Leave it there a few days if you’re uncertain. When comfortable, empty the trash and your project size will reduce drastically. Stripping shouldn’t take more than an hour, if anywhere close to that for a normal size novel. So, removing redundant content sorted.
EDIT: In terms of those section types you keep, copy those documents/folders to the Template Sheets folder with its section type intact. When you need a document of the particular type, add it from dropdown next to the green cross icon. Of course, delete whatever text is redundant in those templates.
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Further to that, I would suggest duplicating the project, clearing it out as @RevoTiLlor suggests, emptying the trash then saving it as a project template. Then, for the future, creating a new project from your template will come with all the section types and section formats assigned.
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