How To Export Narrative Order In CSV?

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I’m exporting my timeline via CSV in order to use the data elsewhere, and need to be able to create a list of scenes organized within their chapters. However, when I export CSV data, the narrative data is not exporting the parent. That is, “Chapter 2, Scene 11” is being exported as simply “Scene 11”. As there is also no data exported under Chapter 2, there is no way for me to discover what scenes go in which chapters in the export. How do I export this data, or otherwise make it clear in the CSV export which scenes belong to which chapters? (And so on for acts, sub-scenes, etc.)

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I see the same problem in the Beta version , but if look at the bottom of the excel import file you will see the act and chapter narrative folders listed.
I don’t use excel much, but here is page which talks about how to rearrange cells so can move acts and chapters into position.

Used highlight row, shift key and mouse to move and got this, would need to clean up but can be done.

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Thanks for the reply. I was aware of the items being at the bottom, but it’s unfortunately not very helpful (the spreadsheet, I’m not referring to your reply). I’m trying to automate as much of the process of exporting timeline information into Obsidian as possible, and having to manually rearrange the export data with every export kills that.

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Hi @cdrch,

Thank you for reporting this. We’ve queued this to be fixed in the next release.

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That’s fantastic, thank you so much!

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Is there a way to import narrative order? i do a lot of work outside of Aeon (either with an Aeon csv export or before i bring my timeline data into Aeon at all) and it would be really nice to be able to dictate narrative order during import. e.g. if i can add the same type/structure of narrative information in my custom csv file as the aeon csv export option uses then it would be great if aeon could process that during import.

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Hi Stuart,

At the moment, narrative positions can’t be specified during CSV import. You can choose to add all of the imported items to the end of the Narrative, but Aeon won’t currently use information in the CSV to place individual items at specific positions within it.

We are working on allowing narrative positions, such as Book 1, Chapter 3, to be specified during import, which would support the kind of workflow you’re describing with a custom CSV.

Best,
Riaan
Aeon Timeline Support