Authoring
Categories
A Category is a named section within a Publication — "Essays", "Notes", "Release notes". Every published Document sits in exactly one Category, and the order of the Categories is what a website uses to build its navigation.
Categories are managed from a Publication's Manage tab.
Note
In the AT Protocol record this is scribe.groups[], and the older Scribe CMS
calls it a "Group". SkyScribe calls it a Category — see the table in
Core concepts.
Adding a Category
Click Add New Category. Give it:
- a Category title — the section heading readers see;
- a URL path — the segment that appears in Document URLs, e.g.
essaysinmyblog.com/essays/a-year-of-letters. It's suggested from the title and must be lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens.
The URL path is fixed at creation from this dialog; you can still change it later with Rename (below).
Renaming and re-pathing
Each Category has a Rename control (the gear icon). You can change both the title and the URL path.
Careful
Changing a Category's URL path changes the web address of every Document in it. Existing links and bookmarks to the old addresses will break unless the site that serves the content adds redirects. The Rename dialog warns you when the path is about to change.
SkyScribe updates each of your Documents to its new address, so other apps that read your Publication link to the right place. A Collaborator's Documents in the Category are updated the next time they use SkyScribe.
Adding Documents
Each Category has an Add Document button — and an empty Category shows the same action as a Select Unpublished Document for Publication link in its drop zone. It opens a dialog listing every Draft Document you own that isn't published anywhere — tick any number of them, click Done, and they're all published into that Category at once. If you have no Drafts, the dialog links you to create one.
Reordering
Drag Categories into the order you want, then click Save Order. Connected websites reflect this order in their navigation. You can also drag Documents between Categories here. Moving a Document to another Category changes its web address, and SkyScribe updates it when you save.
Deleting
A Category can only be deleted once it's empty — move or unpublish its Documents first. The delete button is disabled until then, with a tooltip explaining why. Deleting asks for confirmation.
Next
Publishing — how a Document gets into a Category in the first place.