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15.2 Organizing Maps with Folders
15.0 World & Region Maps 15.2 Organizing Maps with Folders

Once a campaign has more than a handful of maps, a flat list stops being useful. Folders group them into tabs across the top of the maps index — by continent, by story arc, by dungeon, by whatever division your campaign actually thinks in.

Folders are Game Master only. The Manage Folders button, and the entire folder management area behind it, is visible only to Game Masters and Game Owners. Map Managers can move a map into an existing folder from the map's own form, but they cannot create, rename, reorder, or delete folders.
Creating a folder
  1. From the maps index, click Manage Folders.
  2. Click New Folder.
  3. Give it a Name. If you leave it blank, Chronica names it "Unnamed Folder" rather than refusing to save.
  4. Optionally set Secret? to hide the whole folder from players.
  5. Save.

To put a map in a folder, open the map's edit form and choose from the Map Folder dropdown. Maps with no folder appear under an Unsorted tab on the index.

Reordering and renaming

The folder management screen lists your folders with a drag handle on each row. Drag them into the order you want the tabs to appear; the order saves as you drop. Edit Folder opens the same form you used to create it.

A secret folder is not the same as a secret map. Marking a folder secret hides the tab and its contents from the maps index — but if a player has a direct link to a map inside it, and that map is not itself marked secret, they can still open it. If a map must stay hidden, mark the map secret too. The folder form says this as well, and it is worth taking literally.
Deleting a folder does not delete your maps. When you delete a folder, every map inside it is moved out to Unsorted first. You will not lose a map by tidying up your folders. Deleting a map is a different matter entirely — see 15.3 and 15.7.
15.0 World & Region Maps