Bookstack: Allow pages to be directly assigned to shelves

[aljawaid]

Just a quick one, I was looking into the new Bookshelves implementation today and had a question:

Is it a wrong way of doing, or how would we go about assigning certain pages of a book to a bookshelf?

Before I make a mess of my new bookshelf and chopping my books about, I thought I would get everyone's opinion, or at least @ssddanbrown :)

Example: One book is called IT Manual and it contains a page called Public Sharing Links. The rest of the book is all about IT support articles etc. My new bookshelf is called Marketing. So I thought, how would I go about just the public links page into that bookshelf, or should I create a book (single page) just for that topic and then I will be able to add it to different shelves?

Any suggestions?

[Rubizzle]

I don't think there's a way to assign pages to a bookshelf - though that would be interesting! Since BookStack doesn't support sub chapters, I basically turned my chapters into books and put them all into relevant bookshelves to have that extra "sublevel."

In your situation, I'd probably create a book with just the single page and add it to different shelves. Or you can have a bookshelf and change the permissions where different groups can access?

[aljawaid]

I can see too many single-page books being created I think.... maybe if a book had a 'special page' like an appendix or reference page and then that 'special page' could be shared across books/bookshelves.

[ssddanbrown]

Just to confirm, Yeah, This is not currently possible but I'll leave this open to discussion to see if it gains support.

[ezzra]

I would like it, because this would make the shelve system more attractive to use.

[Bolthier]

With this feature implemented for pages and chapters I could really make use of the Shelves.

Right now I have one book for a roleplay system and one book for the the roleplay universe with the lore and the stories of each group.

Universe (Book)

1. General (Chapter)
   i. Empires (Page)
2. Group A
   i. Characters
   ii. Prologue
   iii. Short story

System

1. Vanilla
   i. Base rules
2. Setting A
   i. Special Rules

Adding chapters I could just add the chapters with the lore relevant for this group of players and the group chapter. After that I could choose the base rule chapter and the special rules made for this universe from book B and I would be done with it.