A draft story is a story that you have started but not yet published. When you save an unfinished story, it becomes a draft story.
In this guide learn how to:
Save a draft story
Find and edit a draft story
Collaborate: Share a draft story
Collaborate: Change the editor of a draft story
Delete a draft or multiple draft stories
Note: this article only refers to the Storypark website. Articles on the Storypark for Educators app (Android and iOS) can be referenced for help with mobile drafts.
Save a draft story
When you are ready to finish your session (but not ready to publish), tap the Save and exit button in the blue bar above the story to save it to your drafts folder to finish later.
Autosave
Once you begin writing a story it saves automatically to your ‘Draft stories’ folder. Autosave that runs in the background a few times every minute as you create your story – this means your work is saved to our database even without intentionally clicking a 'save' button.
You can see whether your story has been autosaved at the bottom left of your story:
Stories across multiple tabs or devices
❗Important: Sometimes educators will have the same draft story open in multiple tabs or devices. This causes the autosave to run in the background of each version, which competes with each other and work can be lost from the story. We do not recommend working on the same draft story simultaneously across multiple tabs or devices.
You'll see a pop-up window to prevent the above happening. If there are multiple versions of a draft story open, a pop-up window will appear on the first version of the story:
Update to the newer version - only the latest version of the story is kept and the old version is lost.
Continue with the older version - only the first/older version of the story is kept and we remove the newer version.
Create a new draft with the older version - this means you end up with copies of both versions. This is the best option if you are unsure which version you want to keep.
Find and edit draft stories
To find your draft stories on the Storypark website, click the menu button at the top left, and from the menu click Draft stories:
Click the story you wish to view and you'll be taken to the unpublished story in the story editor. From here you can choose to Edit, Delete or Publish the story. You can also continue saving the story in your drafts to come back to later.
If you accidentally remove text from a story or lose work whilst having it open across multiple tabs or devices, contact our support team, they may be able to recover that for you.
Collaborate: Share a draft story
Educators can share their drafts with anyone else connected as an educator to their centre. Sharing a draft gives the recipient view-only access.
Sharing a draft
Create or open a draft story. Once in the open story editor select the blue Collaborate button at the top right hand side to open the collaboration side panel:
Select the Share button and choose one, multiple or all educators to share view access with. For services with a lot of educators, use the search bar to narrow down the selection. Individual educators can be selected and deselected by clicking on their names:
Press the Save button to confirm the selection, this will automatically send an email and duck notification to the selected viewers. They'll now appear in the collaboration side panel and be able to view the draft story.
Unsharing a draft
Open a draft story that has been shared in the past. Once in the open story editor select the blue Collaborate button at the top right hand side to open the collaboration side panel:
Select the Manage access button and choose one, multiple or all educators to unshare view access with. For a story with a lot of viewers, use the search bar to narrow down the selection. Individual educators can be deselected by clicking on their names or select Clear all to remove everyone's access:
Press the Save button to confirm, and this will automatically send an email and duck notification to the deselected viewers letting them know they've been removed. They will no longer appear in the collaboration side panel and will not be able to view the draft story.
Where shared drafts appear
Each educator's draft stories folder is split into two tabs, My drafts and Shared with me:
Any draft story that an educator has been given access to will appear under Shared with me.
Note: Once any draft story is published, it will disappear from its respective tab.
Shared draft stories can be filtered by the author's name from the drop-down menu:
From the preview tile, viewers can see how many educators have view access to the draft and click into the story the names of the viewers and the story content.
Collaborate: Change the editor of a draft story
Educators can transfer editorship of a draft with anyone else connected as an educator to their centre. Transferring editorship of a draft changes the story's author and passes over access to another educator to edit, delete, share and/or publish the story.
There is no limit to the number of times editorship of a draft story can be transferred - this means it can be used to:
reflect multiple perspectives of educators within one story
pool knowledge of a child's learning and development, evolving stories as a teaching team
pass stories by part-time staff or those going on leave onto others for completion in their absence
provide mentoring among peers or across teams
Changing editorship of a draft
Create or open a draft story. Once in the open story editor select the blue Collaborate button at the top right-hand side to open the Collaboration side panel:
Select the Change editor button to select a new editor for the draft - note, only one educator can be selected. For services with a lot of educators, use the search bar to narrow down the selection. Individual educators can be selected and deselected by clicking on their names:
Press the Save button to confirm the selection, this will trigger a pop-up warning to confirm the choice to transfer editorship of the draft (as it means loss of edit access):
Once confirmed, the new editor will be automatically sent an email and duck notification advising the change of editorship. They'll now appear in the collaboration side panel as the editor and be able to view, edit, publish and/or delete the draft story. The draft story will appear under the My drafts tab in their drafts folder.
The educator who has passed on the editorship of the draft story will automatically have view-only access to the draft story. However the new editor can remove their access if they wish.
The activity log
Stories with multiple editors also have an activity log - this consists of two parts:
a summary of edits to the story like title changes, text block edits as well as adding and removing children, learning tags and images.
expandable details of collaboration actions such as editor changes, management of viewers and story duplication.
Note: The activity log is not visible to families, only educators. It will also only show on stories that have had multiple editors.
Delete a draft or multiple draft stories
From your draft stories folder, delete individual drafts by tapping on the bin icon on the story's preview:
To delete multiple drafts in one go, tap Manage drafts at the top right-hand corner and select as many drafts as needed:
If you've scrolled down to select multiple drafts, scroll back up to the top of the page and tap the red delete button. Once you've confirmed your selection, all the selected drafts will be deleted from your draft stories folder.