Moving Pages and Chapters to other Book using Drag & Drop in Book Sorting Mode #5339

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OVERLORD · 2026-02-05T09:58:41+03:00

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 09:58:41 +03:00

Originally created by @Wookbert on GitHub (Jul 1, 2025).

Describe the feature you'd like

Ability to drag & drop an entire chapter or single page (or multiple page with Shift or CMD selection) into a different Book (!) directly from sorting mode.

Perhaps a warning dialog could be present „Do you want to move this page/chapter to ?“ with Checkbox „Don’t ask again“ or option to suppress by keeping e.g. Shift-Key pressed should be presented. And Undo-Feature would make a lot of sense too in this context, if for instance, it was dropped onto the wrong Book by accident.

Describe the benefits this would bring to existing BookStack users

Page and Chapters can be moved to another Book by entering/opening the Page or Chapter and using the Move-Button. A faster, more convenient and alternative approach when cleaning up however might be to add a „Drag & Drop to other Books“ Feature in Book Sorting mode.

Can the goal of this request already be achieved via other means?

Yes ... via Move-Button, one by one, as described above.

Have you searched for an existing open/closed issue?

I have searched for existing issues and none cover my fundamental request

How long have you been using BookStack?

Over 5 years

Additional context

No response

Originally created by @Wookbert on GitHub (Jul 1, 2025). ### Describe the feature you'd like Ability to drag & drop an entire chapter or single page (or multiple page with Shift or CMD selection) into a different Book (!) directly from sorting mode. Perhaps a warning dialog could be present „Do you want to move this page/chapter to <Book name here>?“ with Checkbox „Don’t ask again“ or option to suppress by keeping e.g. Shift-Key pressed should be presented. And Undo-Feature would make a lot of sense too in this context, if for instance, it was dropped onto the wrong Book by accident. <img width="1415" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/243b4cd1-3883-41c2-8d4b-e8de84a4b57a" /> ### Describe the benefits this would bring to existing BookStack users Page and Chapters can be moved to another Book by entering/opening the Page or Chapter and using the Move-Button. A faster, more convenient and alternative approach when cleaning up however might be to add a „Drag & Drop to other Books“ Feature in Book Sorting mode. ### Can the goal of this request already be achieved via other means? Yes ... via Move-Button, one by one, as described above. ### Have you searched for an existing open/closed issue? - [x] I have searched for existing issues and none cover my fundamental request ### How long have you been using BookStack? Over 5 years ### Additional context _No response_

OVERLORD added the 🔨 Feature Request label 2026-02-05 09:58:41 +03:00

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2026-02-05 09:58:42 +03:00

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 09:58:45 +03:00

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Jul 1, 2025):

Hi @Wookbert,

Can the goal of this request already be achieved via other means?
Yes ... via Move-Button, one by one, as described above.

If you click on a book, it will then be added to the sort view also where you'd then be able to drag/move between as desired.
Otherwise I wouldn't be keen on allowing direct addition via dropping into the sidebar as pictured as that adds a load extra UX & functional considerations we'd have to handle, for something the user can achieve already just via an extra click.

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Jul 1, 2025): Hi @Wookbert, > Can the goal of this request already be achieved via other means? > Yes ... via Move-Button, one by one, as described above. If you click on a book, it will then be added to the sort view also where you'd then be able to drag/move between as desired. Otherwise I wouldn't be keen on allowing direct addition via dropping into the sidebar as pictured as that adds a load extra UX & functional considerations we'd have to handle, for something the user can achieve already just via an extra click.

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 09:58:49 +03:00

@Wookbert commented on GitHub (Jul 1, 2025):

If you click on a book, it will then be added to the sort view

Aaah! I wasn’t aware of that! My bad, I didn’t read the fine print/help text in the Books panel on the right. Stupid me. Although I think my requested option would be nice to have, I guess you can close the issue/request.

@Wookbert commented on GitHub (Jul 1, 2025): > If you click on a book, it will then be added to the sort view Aaah! I wasn’t aware of that! My bad, I didn’t read the fine print/help text in the Books panel on the right. Stupid me. Although I think my requested option would be nice to have, I guess you can close the issue/request.

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 09:58:52 +03:00

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Jul 2, 2025):

Cool, will therefore go ahead and close this off.

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Jul 2, 2025): Cool, will therefore go ahead and close this off.

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