How do Story Arcs work?

[Vebent]

So I added a few story arcs and I click Grab, but nothing really happens. It shows the comic as wanted, but I don't see it anywhere in my wanted listed and I don't see it anywhere in my downloaded comics list. Is this something that is it's own thing separate from my library or did I configure something wrong? A couple of comics did download, but a folder wasn't created so it can be moved into it. Is there anything I need to do to get this working correctly?

[evilhero]

If you want to see issues that are Wanted that are part of a Story Arc, in the config.ini you would need to set upcoming_storyarcs = True. They will then appear in the Wanted tab of Mylar for easier viewing.

In order to get Mylar to auto-search your storyarcs, in the config.ini you need to set search_storyarcs = True. The caveat in all of this is that the storyarc searching doesn't adhere to some of the safety checks that occur when you do a normal-type of search (ie. no tiered searching, so everything will go either against the api+rss, or just the rss - I can't recall which). There's probably some other things that have stopped it from being implemented fully into the GUI, but atm at least, I can't recall what they would be.

When you setup the storyarc you can specify on the Story Arc Management page whether or not a storyarc folder will be created, how it will look, and where it be located. You can also specify if Mylar is to move or copy relevant issues during post-processing into said folder. If you don't enable the Arcs in StoryArc Directory option, then it will generally throw any issues that don't belong to a watchlisted series into a general grab bag directory located in the root of your Comic Location (called appropriately 'grabbag' by default but the location can be changed via the grabbab_dir option in the config.ini).

Note that enabling the Folder option after you've already added a series won't go back and update previous storyarcs. However, if you do a Refresh Storyarc from the Story Arc Management page, or the Story Arc Detail page for the given story arc, it should update things to the new path accordingly.

[Vebent]

Awesome. Thank you for all the information. This helped a lot.

[phreaky]

thnx for the info on how to enble this feature.

i change everything in the config file restarted mylar but when i search for an story arc i get this...

lets say i search for the arc House of M. i get a Mako Runtime error:

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Error !
KeyError: 'type'
grade = 'Z' rtype = None if search_type != 'story_arc': if result['type'] == 'Digital': rtype = '[Digital]' grade = 'Z' elif result['type'] == 'TPB': rtype = '[TPB]' grade = 'Z'
C:/ProgramData/mylar3/data/interfaces/default/searchresults.html, line 58:
if result['type'] == 'Digital':
C:/ProgramData/mylar3/data/interfaces/default/base.html, line 91:
${next.body()}
C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\mako\runtime.py, line 947:
callable_(context, *args, **kwargs)
C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\mako\runtime.py, line 920:
_exec_template(inherit, lclcontext, args=args, kwargs=kwargs)
C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\mako\runtime.py, line 883:
**_kwargs_for_callable(callable_, data)
C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\mako\template.py, line 473:
return runtime._render(self, self.callable_, args, data)
C:\ProgramData\mylar3\mylar\webserve.py, line 100:
return template.render(http_root=mylar.CONFIG.HTTP_ROOT, interface=mylar.CONFIG.INTERFACE, icons=icons, **kwargs)

is there something that i'm doing wrong or is this a bug ?
running windows 10 with python version 3.7.6

[evilhero]

phreaky, this error has been fixed in the python3-dev branch but has not made it into the master branch as of yet.

Your best bet is to switch to the python3-dev branch if you're able to.

Most dockers lately allow for switching to a nightly build if you're using docker.
You can git clone directly against the python3-dev branch or just checkout the python3-dev branch if you already cloned.
You can also just redownload the source but from the python3-dev branch, not the default master.

Otherwise, you need to wait for the merge to happen which probably will be at some point this week.

[phreaky]

check, thnx for your quick reply!

then ill wait for the next update just glad i finally got it up and running after trying multiple times over the last 2 years hahaha.

[senorsmartypants]

StoryArcs sort of work for me. I have it set up so SA will be put in my grabbag directory, and a SA directory gets created in that folder correctly. But issue don't get moved there after post processing. I can see the original download still in my cache directory. My settings in the UI are as follows:

- (unchecked) Arcs in StoryArc Directory
- (checked) [Move] watchlisted issues to grabbag directory

Carepackage https://www.file.io/WAbv/download/OJwDAbUF8lbu

I do have some post processing scripts set up, which work fine for regular series.

[lkj]

Did you ever get this working?

My problem is that if I have “[copy] watchlisted issues to storyarc directory” unchecked, no files get copied during post processing. If I have it checked, all files (watchlisted and one off issues) get copied.

Thanks