On this page you can look over the stories being collected over the web (or entered by you). You can also correct errors in entered stories, anonymize entered stories, and mark stories to ignore.
On this page you can look over the stories being collected over the web (or entered by you). You can also correct errors in entered stories, anonymize entered stories, and mark stories to ignore.
If you want to look at all of your collected stories, ignore the "Filter by" choices above the list of stories, and just click on a story in the list. Below the list of stories you will see the information for the selected story.
If you want to look at specific subsets of stories, choose a question on one or both of the "Filter by" choice boxes, then choose which answers you want to see. For example, you might choose "Age," then "25-50," and you would see only stories told by people between 25 and 50. If you select two questions, you will see only stories that match both criteria, such as for example, people between 25 and 50 who told stories about which they said they felt "satisfied."
You can also use this page to — very carefully — do any of these things.
To change a story, select it in the list of stories, then make your changes in the panel that appears below the list. Be careful! You might want to export your story collection before you start making changes, as a backup.
To review your incoming stories, you must first (a) create a story collection (which must be associated with a story form) and (b) collect, enter, or import some stories.
Any changes made on this page will impact every NarraFirma page on which story data is displayed, including all of the graphs in the catalysis section of NarraFirma. If you need to make changes to your stories and you have already started doing your catalysis work, be sure to go back over your observations to make sure they are still valid.
It's one thing to lose your own work, but losing the time and attention of the dozens or hundreds of people who told stories in your project is much worse. You can't get those stories back again. So we have designed NarraFirma to protect your stories by passing over them rather than fully deleting them from its database.
However, you can permanently delete a story if you need to. Here's how.
This will prevent the story from appearing on the "Review incoming stories" page.
There is a second layer of ignoring that you may also want to bypass. A deleted story collection, like an ignored story, is not actually removed from the NarraFirma database. It is simply unmoored from the project, and it floats, disconnected, in the database. A deleted story collection can be brought back to life by creating a new collection with the (exact) same name. We chose to do this, again, to prevent the accidental loss of stories.
So, if you want to make sure that a story (and the story collection that holds it) does not exist anywhere in your project: