Full Name and AKA fields blank in Characters tab of scenes

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Andrew Applegarth

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Apr 6, 2025, 7:27:19 PM4/6/25
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I am using version 7.1.5.2 and my searching didn't pull up any other conversation covering this.

When I go to the Characters tab of a scene to select who is in the scene, the Full Name and AKA columns are blank for both "In this scene" and "All" sections.  I can see the full name displayed below those sections when I click on a particular character and the View/Edit selection under the Characters drop-down menu in the main program shows those columns fully populated.

It's not usually an issue as I follow the strategy of keeping all character names unique when possible, but sometimes the story requires identical short names.  For example, my current story has a junior and senior version of the same name.

- Andrew

Andrew Applegarth

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Apr 6, 2025, 7:58:27 PM4/6/25
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I'm adding this here rather than in a new conversation, because it's another minor issue with the Characters tab on scenes.

When you resize the scene window, the character list windows stretch or shrink to match.  If you stop with the window with, for example, room for more than 5 lines but less than 6, it will display 5 characters.  If you page down, it will display another 5 characters, but the one at the top will be character #7 rather than #6.  If you scroll to the bottom of the list and then page up, the character that was at the top of the bottom page will be repeated at the bottom of that page.  I can correct it by adjusting the overall window size, but it annoyed me until I figured out it was tied to window size when I had a sequence of scenes that included that #6 character.

- Andrew
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