(Minor) Not possible to move book back to top level? #1622

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OVERLORD · 2026-02-05T01:27:01+03:00

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 01:27:01 +03:00

Originally created by @aekramer on GitHub (Apr 3, 2020).

Describe the bug
One of the contributors moved a book into a category, while I would have preferred to keep this a top-level entry. But I am not able to reverse this.

Steps To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

When going to the page
Click on 'Move'
The list will only contain other books/sections (no way to return it to top level)

Expected behavior
Not sure if there is a way I don't know about to do this, but it would be nice to have an entry to remove it from a category instead of having to move it.

Your Configuration (please complete the following information):

Exact BookStack Version (Found in settings): 0.28.2
PHP Version: 7.2
Hosting Method (Nginx/Apache/Docker): Nginx

Additional context
I am not sure if this is a bug or should be a feature request, as it might be expected behaviour on a fairly basic feature, I figured this might be more of a bug.

Originally created by @aekramer on GitHub (Apr 3, 2020). **Describe the bug** One of the contributors moved a book into a category, while I would have preferred to keep this a top-level entry. But I am not able to reverse this. **Steps To Reproduce** Steps to reproduce the behavior: 1. When going to the page 2. Click on 'Move' 3. The list will only contain other books/sections (no way to return it to top level) **Expected behavior** Not sure if there is a way I don't know about to do this, but it would be nice to have an entry to remove it from a category instead of having to move it. **Your Configuration (please complete the following information):** - Exact BookStack Version (Found in settings): 0.28.2 - PHP Version: 7.2 - Hosting Method (Nginx/Apache/Docker): Nginx **Additional context** I am not sure if this is a bug or should be a feature request, as it might be expected behaviour on a fairly basic feature, I figured this might be more of a bug.

OVERLORD closed this issue

2026-02-05 01:27:08 +03:00

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 01:27:10 +03:00

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Apr 4, 2020):

Hi there @aekramer,
I'm afraid I don't 100% understand your situation. Have them moved a book into a shelve (Represented in red by default in the UI)?

If so, you should be able to go to the shelf > Click Edit > Drag the Book out of the shelf or click on it:

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Apr 4, 2020): Hi there @aekramer, I'm afraid I don't 100% understand your situation. Have them moved a book into a shelve (Represented in red by default in the UI)? If so, you should be able to go to the shelf > Click Edit > Drag the Book out of the shelf or click on it: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8343178/78405617-c2dfaf80-75f8-11ea-9e42-33decb924c88.png)

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 01:27:11 +03:00

@aekramer commented on GitHub (Apr 4, 2020):

Sorry I think I have actually made a mistake here, apparantly had a shelve and a book named the same thing, made me assume when looking at the chapters I was looking at books (so trying to move a chapter out of a book really)

Again, sorry, I will close this now.

Due to the multiple (unneeded) layers of having Shelves -> Books -> Chapters -> Pages
We renamed a few things using the translation file and kind of skipped out one of them, which made it a bit confusing

@aekramer commented on GitHub (Apr 4, 2020): Sorry I think I have actually made a mistake here, apparantly had a shelve and a book named the same thing, made me assume when looking at the chapters I was looking at books (so trying to move a chapter out of a book really) Again, sorry, I will close this now. Due to the multiple (unneeded) layers of having Shelves -> Books -> Chapters -> Pages We renamed a few things using the translation file and kind of skipped out one of them, which made it a bit confusing

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 01:27:14 +03:00

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Apr 4, 2020):

@aekramer Cool, glad you found the issue.

If you do find you don't need shelves at all, The shelves option in the top header bar will hide if a user does not have permission to view any in the system, So you could strip shelf permissions from all your users and it'll be like the don't exist.

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Apr 4, 2020): @aekramer Cool, glad you found the issue. If you do find you don't need shelves at all, The shelves option in the top header bar will hide if a user does not have permission to view any in the system, So you could strip shelf permissions from all your users and it'll be like the don't exist.

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Reference: starred/BookStack#1622