Understanding chapters
With chapters, you can add or remove topics from your book as well as organize your table of contents into the desired order.
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The Chapters field provides information about your book and its included content, such as:
- Displaying the total number of topics contained in the book. In the image above, there are seven topics in this book.
- Showing any duplicate topics found in the book and their location.
- Showing a list of chapters and the number of topics contained in each. For instance, the
Getting started
chapter above has 4 topics.
Each chapter listed in the Chapters field has a set of controls to help you manage the table of contents.
- Clicking the name of the chapter expands it to show its details and all of the topics contained within.
- Clicking next to a chapter gives you the option to make a copy of that chapter, and to convert it to a shared or inline chapter.
- Clicking allows you to drag and drop the chapter into a new place within the list of chapters.
- Clicking next to a chapter removes that chapter from the book. If it is an inline chapter, it is deleted from Brightspot. If it is a shared chapter, it still exists and can be used in other books.
As you expand a chapter, you see all of the fields and sub-chapters associated with that chapter.
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When a chapter is expanded, you see many of the same controls listed above for the parent chapter; however, there are a couple of additional controls available to you at the sub-chapter level.
- Clicking expands all of the sub-chapters within the chapter to see associated details.
- Clicking allows you to add another sub-chapter.
From the Chapters field, you can arrange the order of your table of contents as necessary. See Organizing the table of contents for more information.