Manuscript button missing from UI menu

Closed

Feature: Manuscripts
Reported by: Kummer Wolfe
Opened: 5 Jan 2026
Assigned to: katerinach

Waiting for Response

Description

The Manuscript button is missing from a world I am the co-owner on. It had been there and active BEFORE the recent UI updates. Now it is missing. I already have a manuscript in that world, and now I cannot access it, or add a new manuscript. The world owner is a Venerable Grandmaster and has Manuscript Access. I am one of the World Anvil Inner Sanctum. The world: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/star-wars3A-shards-jarissa Any world that I am the full owner of, I *do* have access to create and edit Manuscripts. As 80% of my use of World Anvil is writing serial fiction, this is rather painful.

Steps to Reproduce

[1] Open a world as a co-owner of that is expected to have manuscript access [2] look for icon/ feature on menu bar.

History

Comments and updates to this report

Jarissa 5 Jan 2026 · 15:59

I'm the world owner in question.

I also have this problem of "no Manuscript button" on worlds where I am any status other than "Owner".

When I checked at C. B. Ash's request, I saw that I do have the Manuscript button as the 5th one down:

link to an unedited screencap of manuscript option existing when I am World Owner

When I then checked worlds where I am not the Owner -- I am Co-Owner, or an Advanced Editor -- I was able to confirm the lack of button a few times. It did not matter if I was activating a Campaign, or a world where no Campaign exists.

Edit: The below weirdness has resolved itself. Left here in case the occurrence was part of the total bug process.

And then I got this:

link to an unedited screencap of a whole page where the code base itself appears to have derogatory things to say about World Anvil's code base

which is being included here in case it is relevant to your analysis.

It's also now the only thing I can see on World Anvil other than the Bug Tracker.

I can't even log out.

Which is why I'm having to host my illustrations of the bug, in hopes that it helps your reproduction of same, openly somewhere else on the internet. Please tell the original poster, Inner Sanctum member Kummer Wolfe, when you no longer need my images so I can delete them.

katerinach 7 Jan 2026 · 08:20 Assignee

Assigned katerinach

katerinach 3 Mar 2026 · 14:35 Assignee

We have made it possible for guild tier co-owners of a world to access that collaborative world - please let me know if you encounter any issues!

katerinach 3 Mar 2026 · 14:35 Assignee

Added tag Waiting for Response

Kummer Wolfe 3 Mar 2026 · 23:28

Thank you! I can reach it now and it works like expected!

katerinach 4 Mar 2026 · 09:16 Assignee

set this bug to closed

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