Help! I can't preview my story in the creator!

I’m having a problem previewing my story on the online creator. Every time I try this shows up:

I have tried restarting my laptop and reloading the page.
I am using custom backgrounds and overlays, but this still happens even when I remove those.

On the plus side, it still works on the app. Any ideas as to what’s going on? Also, will this stop me from publishing my story? :grimacing:

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Is your computer old?

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No, it’s very new actually - I got it earlier this month.

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Hmm… could you screen record this when it happens? Maybe it’s the code?

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I can try, hold on.

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I’ve done it, but I can’t seem to post it here.

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You got Instagram? If so mine is @yoshime325 or @epi_promos

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I’ve tried for quite a while and I still can’t (I’m pretty terrible with technology unfortunately)

If you can tell me what you’d be looking for I can try and find it myself?

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I’m looking for errors in the code that the previewer sometimes doesn’t catch that results in this. Could you take a pic of the code? If not I can try and explain in more detail.

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I can do that I think XD

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(there’s some extra dialogue at the bottom as well as the ‘}’)

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So when doing an overlay you cannot use “and” to put them together. Also when using “and” it must be all uppercase like “AND.” You should be using “THEN” instead of “AND.” This is because the overlay cannot do all the actions at the same time.

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Thank you for the tip, but that’s definitely not the problem. I deleted the whole intro section to see if it was causing the problem and it wasn’t (also I’ve written a previous six chapters not doing that, and this is a new issue). :woman_shrugging:
Interestingly, you made me try deleting all the dialogue stuff (leaving the if/else part) and try again and it worked. IDK what that means for the coding though - does it just dislike dialogue? :sweat_smile: :joy:

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You definitely can have both upper or lower case “AND”.
You can also command the overlays all at the same time, that’s what the command “AND” is for.

This is only for looping the overlays. That, you can only use “THEN”.

@Banana-Child This may be the writer’s portal issue, because the script looks fine. You’d need to file a ticket for the episode team to review your problem.

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Oh yeah sorry I got a little mixed up.

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Okay, thank you both for the help. I reckon you’re right, I went and tested another chapter and it didn’t work either. I’ll go and report it.

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Np and I also learned something.

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Moved to Report a Bug Writer’s Portal. Make sure to check out our Forum Tutorial for more info about creating topics, and feel free to PM me if you’ve got questions. :smiley:

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