Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20161124005352/@comment-61022-20161208173230

So again, I'm getting resistance to how I'm formatting it but not getting much by way of suggestions. None of the above resolves the issue with chronological points of affected flashbacks.

Okay, if we're not going to separate Flashbacks and there are other chronology points how do we reflect that?

Because the way tags are coded you can only apply one tag to a character and all the others are applied outside of that main tag.

Example: Featured Character:

Now lets say the Flashback is an original flashback and has it's own chronological points.

How then, are we going to signify all those two points of Chronology?

Follow up, what if we have a more complex situation where there are flashbacks that cover multiple points of continuity?

The most recent example that I have encountered I can offer you is Savage She-Hulk Vol 1 7. In that story, the character Richard Rory goes into a monologue about his life.

The flashback involved features a combination of original scenes and recaps of previously established events from past comics.

I've isolated it like this: Featured Characters: Supporting Characters:

Here, in the supporting characters field, I have added the APN tagging for "Present Day" Rory. Then I break it down in the Flashbacks section:

Flashback:

There are three entries for Richard Rory that list their continuity points. As you can see I've even added green tagging providing a brief explanation of what those flashbacks are.

Scaling all this back here's my logic to this:


 * For someone who is not informed, they can see that not only does Richard Rory appear in this main story, but they also see that he appears in a Flashback. Also they see that character has multiple flashbacks that happen at different points of their lives as relevant to the story.


 * For someone who is more informed or well versed with the material but wants to know where Richard's flashbacks happen in his overall continuity, they can explore those other points of continuity. Ideally, when all the issue summary gaps are filled and all the appropriate APN tags are placed they can trace that characters history.

That said, from a design standpoint, It's clear. It's not inundating a character appearance with an ugly string of green tags. Which is kind of the crux of this problem.

Alternatively, as is being suggested and we only have one entry for the character and we are, as has been suggested by a few of you, could only be one of the most cumbersome looking tags.

Without altering code, we'd have to do something like this:



Which would look something like this

OR

We could put a notation tag like this:

Which isn't very intuitive.

If we want these things noted, it's either going to be really complicated from a coding perspective both in editing pre-existing templates and instructions on how to implement said changes.

That's why I think the way I've suggested is best because it makes it easier to enter that information. Simplicity will encourage people to do it and it will be less complicated for those who are new to editing.