I have been working on a project for a number of years, off and on as it goes, and I realized that I am still working under a generic working title. I will be in need of giving it an ACTUAL title, and I am not sure how to do this. I have attempted to to rename the .scriv file but, but when I move to compile, the title page is still the generic working title.
Thoughts?
PS: I have also played with trying to add a colon to the title, but I get a message saying thats not allowed (ie Space: The Final Frontier is forced to be Space The Final Frontier)
Scrivener 2 or 3? In Scrivener 2 you can use Project menu and Project Metadata, and in Scrivener 3 you can use the Compiler metadata to set the true project title. This enables <$projecttitlte> — a placeholder tag you can insert anywhere in your text (perhaps a cover page, a header/footer etc.) and gets replaced with what you set your title to be. This means you can change the title in one place and see the change everywhere.
Nevermind! found it! For those wondering, once you compile the project, there is a set of four buttons. the one that looks like a tag is the metadata portion where i found the thing I needed
Well fudge. I figured it out. However, I still can’t figure out how to get my name and address on the front page. Title shows up, word count shows up, but no name and address.
If I type it in, then it shows twice on the compiled document.
Where are you typing it in to? More details about where you’re putting information, and how you are trying to add that to the output of your manuscript would be helpful.
On Mac v3, there are two places to get your address, email, phone, and name.
First is the “me” contact card in the Contacts application.
If you don’t give Scrivener the ability to access your contacts, or want something different, you can set it in Scrivener under Scrivener->Preferences->General->Author Information.
From there wherever you need it to appear, you can enter the placeholder tags into document text, or even in parts of the compile interface. You can see a floating window with all of the available placeholder tags under the Help menu.
This fix changes title in compile results but the project still has the old name. It boggles the mind that you cannot rename a project. After three hours of searching, I am just going to copy every thing to a new project. Ridiculous. Project name change should be a top item…
I am having this same issue. I have tried renaming the file itself (in Finder) and also done a “Save As” to the new project name, and in both cases the project still compiles with the old title on the title page. I tried a find/replace for the old title with no effect. The custom metadata tab doesn’t have any reference to projecttitle.
Incidentally, I updated my contact information in the author information tab in preferences, but recompiling still brings up my old contact information as well.
Anybody have any new thoughts or solutions on this? It’s hard to believe there’s not a simple way to retitle a piece of work. I am working on a mac in Scrivener v3.
I guess I’d like to submit a bug report and a feature request, then.
The bug report is that, whether by forking the project to a different name or changing the file name in Finder outside the project, <$projecttitle> still inserts the previous (original/first) project name rather than the new/current project name when the manuscript gets compiled.
The feature request is the ability to rename a project in a single place and have that propagate through the project without having to manually go to multiple areas to update the project name within the project. Bonus points if this could occur without breaking the syncing across platforms or that syncing could also be restored with a single step of pointing Scrivener to the new name on each subsequent platform/device involved in the sync.
The project name isn’t the same thing as the book title. You can set the Title to something completely different than the project name in Finder, and Katherine told you how to do it on project level.
But one day you might want to have different titles for different output from the same project.
Exactly. Some people use Scrivener to write articles, short stories, or poems. Some people put more than one book from a multi-book series in a single project. Some people like concise file names, but long titles. The name of the file is not, and should not be, the title of the work.
Ok, has anybody figured this out yet? Scrivener 3.1.5 and OS High Sierra. I simply wanted to change the name of my book title. I used “Save As” and changed the metadata wen compiling. Is there a way short of starting a new project and copying everything over?
Thanks for the reply. I want to change the title as it appears in the output document is what I want to change, which is the title of the novel when I open it in the Books app on my iPhone. I used “Change as” to change it from “Cruelsome Trilogy” to “Cruelsome.” And I also changed the title of the book using metadata when compiling in epub format. Neither of those two things worked. When I opened the book in the app after trying these two things it still had the book title as “Cruelsome Trilogy.” Weird.
If you’re sure you’ve changed the metadata in the Compile screen, check and make sure you’ve cleared the cache for your ebook reader and are in fact opening the new version. Ebook readers are often very “helpful” about preserving the version that they think you’re currently reading.
