Reviewing an import

Once a script finishes processing, the review is where you decide what actually lands in your project. Nothing is applied until you confirm at the end, so take your time and check each suggestion.

You start on a summary showing how many new characters, new scenes, and modified scenes were found. From there you can Review Changes to step through each one, or Accept All to bring everything in at once.

The four stages

The progress bar at the top tracks where you are:

1. New Characters - characters found in the script. Match each to an existing character or add it as new. See Matching imported characters.
2. New Scenes - scenes the script adds that aren't in your project yet. Check the scene number, location, time of day, story day, and characters before including them.
3. Modified Scenes - scenes that already exist where the script changes something. Each change is shown old value next to new, and you choose which to apply. See Re-importing a revised script.
4. Confirm - a tally of everything included and skipped, and the button that applies it all.

Moving through the review

Use Next and Previous to move between items, or Skip Section to jump past a whole stage. Click any step in the progress bar to jump to a specific character or scene. Each item has an include toggle; turn it off to ignore that character or scene, and it shows as skipped in the tally. Ignored items are struck through in the progress bar list.

Each scene step has Form, Script, and (on wider screens) Both tabs, so you can read the original script text next to the form while you check the details. Use the arrows above the script to page through sections, or Go to to jump back to the scene that matches the form.

The Settings menu lets you auto-accept changes for chosen fields. Tick a field and scenes whose only changes are in those fields are accepted without stopping you to review them, which is handy when you trust the script's location or story-day data.

Finishing

On the Confirm stage, click Apply to write the changes in. You set a revision colour for the import first, then Haystack applies everything and shows Import Complete with a link to your scenes. If something goes wrong, you see an error screen explaining what happened so you can try again.