Narrova - How to connect storyform to story?

Hello Dramatica community! Long-time lurker here (I’ve been reading Narrative First articles since 2014), and long-time user of what is now platform.dramatica.com (I originally hopped on when it was the “Narrative First Atomizer”, and I remained on when it became Subtxt).

I want to start on developing possible illustrations with Narrova for various Storypoints within a Storyform I put together using the Storyform Builder, but when I’ve tried to do so, I always run into Narrova saying that the Storyform has not been created yet, even though I have the Storyform selected as the Storyform Context:

While Narrova offers to recreate the Storyform, it exceeded the processing limit last time I told it to:

Me: How could I illustrate the Overall Story Problem of Non-acceptance throughout the 4 OS Signposts?

Narrova: OS Problem: Non-acceptance is not yet defined as a Storypoint in the Storyform. Before we can encode its recurring pressure through the four Objective Story Signposts, we should establish a single approved baseline illustration for what Non-acceptance means in Yumi’s Shadow. Would you like me to create that Storypoint first?

Me: Yes, please define Non-acceptance as the OS Problem. Are there any other Storypoints that are not defined yet?

Narrova: Narrova paused this response before it exceeded its processing limit. Your conversation is safe; send a follow-up to continue.

Is there a way to connect the already-created Storyform with the Story in Narrova, without having to burn through all the tokens needed for Narrova to try to connect it? Thanks so much in advance!

P.S. I am a current, paying subscriber to the service.

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Hi @jacob glad to hear from you!

This looks like a bug, meaning what you’re showing should work the way you expect.

I can cross-ref your email here w your account, but if you’re able to “thumbs down” a response when it comes back that speeds things up considerably.

When you do that I don’t have to search and find what went wrong, I get notified even without you having to do anything else.

Let me look into what’s going on and I’ll get back to you here in a bit.

Thanks for reporting this. We found and fixed the issue that was preventing your working-copy Storyform from loading correctly as context in Narrova.

We’ve confirmed the fix is working. Sorry for the detour, and please try it again when you have a moment. :smiley: