Series

A series is content that comes in an order: a ten-part guide, a column that runs for a season, a story told chapter by chapter. Each part is numbered ("Part 3 of 6"), the series has a page that lists its parts in order, and every part links to the one before and the one after.

A series is not a rubric. A rubric is an ongoing theme with no order; a series is a sequence. An item can be in one of each.

What can be a part

Articles, posts, videos, albums, events, coverages and blurbs. An item is in at most one series, and the series has to belong to the same publication as the item.

Making a series

Open the Editorial tab in Studio, then Series, and click "New series":

• The thumbnail, the name and a line or two about it.
• How many parts the series will contain. Leave it empty for an open-ended series. A planned number lets readers see how far along it is ("3 of 6 published"). If you number a part past it, the number rises on its own: publish or place a part as number 8 in a series planned for 6, and the series becomes 8 parts, so readers never see "Part 8 of 6". An open-ended series stays open.

The series is created as ongoing and published at once. Once it exists, its form also lets you:

• set its State to Ongoing or Complete.
• fill in "Next part announced for (optional)", a date shown to readers until it has passed (and not once the series is complete).

As for rubrics, a second step then offers to add content right away, or later from the series' card with "Add or take out content".

Putting a part in a series

From the item's editor, or from the series:

• In the editor. Articles, posts, videos, albums, events and coverages have a Series field near the top. In its select, "New series" is the first choice and makes a series on the spot; "No series" comes next. Pick a series and the part number is filled in with the next free one. The "-" and "+" buttons next to the number step through the numbers, skipping the ones other items already hold.
• From the series. Its content window lists what is in the series and what is in no series. This is also where you add blurbs, which have no Series field in their editor.

Ordering the parts

A series' parts are shown in a row, each headed "Part N". Drag a part by its handle ("Drag to move") to put it elsewhere: the numbers follow, and the whole order is saved at once. "Take out" removes a part from the series.

What readers see

• A line under the name of each part: "Part 3 of 6 in [series]", or "Part 3 in [series]" for an open-ended series. The series' name links to its page. On an article, it sits under the title in the page's header, whichever header you chose.
• The series' page, at /series/<name>-<id> on your publication's address: thumbnail, name and description, how far along it is ("3 of 6 published", or "N published" when open-ended), "Complete" once you've marked it so, the date of the next part when you announced one, then the parts in order.
• Previous and next, at the end of a part's page: the series line, then the previous and next published parts.
• A feed. The same address ending in /feed is an RSS feed of the series.
• Explore and search. Series appear in Explore and can be found by name through search, once they have a published part.

Emails sent for an article or an event that is a part of a series also carry a "Stop receiving [series]" link in their footer, the same way as for a rubric: they stay subscribed to your publication and stop getting that series.

A series as a deck of cards

In your Studio's series list, and wherever a series appears in a feed, it's drawn as a deck: its cover on top, its first published parts behind it. When the deck comes into view it flips through its cards once (a click flips it too), then rests. Over the cover, the label "Series" sits above the series' name, followed by its description, your publication's name, how far along it is and, once you've marked it so, "Complete". In a feed, the name leads to the series' page; in Studio, it opens the series' form.

Showing a series on a page

In the page editor, the Series parts block shows one of your series. Its layout is "Parts in order" (the default) or "Stories, newest first", where the newest part takes the height of the screen. See Website & Pages.