Collections

Before you start

• A collection is made of published pages, so publish the songs first: see Publish. Publishing also gives you your address on stab.page, which a collection lives under.
• Collections come with Stab Cloud: the free plan has none. See Stab Cloud plans.

Your collections

Signed in, the foot of the home has Published and Collections: your pages, and your collections, each with its title, its address, how many pieces it has and its state: Being made, Live, or Live; the new pages coming while a change is being made. A collection opens to change it; its menu also has Copy Link, Open the Page and Withdraw….

The Collections view lists them all, each with Edit, Copy Link, Open the Page and a … menu with Withdraw…. Window › Collections opens it. Cancel or Save in a collection you’re changing brings you back to that list.

Withdraw… takes a collection down, once you confirm: Stab first asks “Withdraw “First Tunes”?” and says what it means, with Withdraw and Cancel. Its address then says the collection was withdrawn, and its pieces go back to being pages on their own, at their own addresses.

Making a collection

1. Choose New Collection… at the head of the Collections shelf.
2. Give it a Title. Its Address is made from the title if you leave it empty: stab.page/@yourname/ and the part you type.
3. Write an Introduction if you like: a few words on the contents page.
4. A collection starts with one section. Choose Add a Piece… under it and pick one of your published pages. Add as many as you need.
5. Add a Section for another part (“Warm-ups”, “Set 1”). A section’s … menu has Rename… and Remove Section, which takes its pieces out with it.
6. Choose Make the Collection.

Move a piece with ↑ and ↓ (past a section’s edge, it goes into the next section), and take it out with ×. Move a section with its own ↑ and ↓. Nothing changes on stab.page until you choose Save, or Make the Collection for a new one.

A page belongs to one collection at most: Add a Piece… lists the pages that are live and in no other collection.

Changing a collection

Changes to the title, the introduction, the sections and the order take effect when you save: the contents page and each piece’s page are made again with the new order.

A new address moves the collection and its pieces: Stab asks you to confirm with Change the Address, and links to the old addresses keep leading to them.

From a song

Each page on a song’s Publish card, in Share, says In “Songbook” when it’s in a collection. Its ⋯ menu has Add to Collection…, which puts the page in one of your collections, or in a new one from a title, and Take Out of “Songbook” for a page already in one. The collections themselves are made and arranged from the home.

When a collection isn’t saved

Stab says why under the form:

• Your plan’s collections are all in use (the free plan has none).
• You already have a page or a collection at that address. Choose another, or leave the address empty to make one from the title.
• A piece is already in another collection: take it out of that one first.
• A collection has at most 50 sections and 500 pieces.