Story not recognizing a character in the Outline

Question

I imported a Word script, (that was exported from Buzzword), and one of my characters is not showing up as a coloured dot in the Outline pane. I've rewritten the character name and ensured it's set as a Character from the type menu, but no luck. I had a similar issue with another character and closing and re-opening the script fixed it. However, this character just doesn't show up at all.
Any ideas?
Also, is there a limit to the number of coloured dots that are displayed?
Thanks,
Andre

Answer 1

Thanks for the details Deepak.
I love the idea of these dots and can see them being very useful when passing on scripts to my actors to read their parts. They would easily be able to see their dots for each script. For me however, the current implementation is not flexible enough. I am writing epsiodes which always have the same 4 or 5 characters, then each episode has 3 or 4 incidental characters. With only 6 dots, I'll always be missing some.
For this to be a killer feature for me, I would like to see:
More dots with any of the following preferences:
Create dots dynamically based on characters in a scene. Colours should be consistent throughout the script though.
Create a set number of dots (user-defined)
Create a set number of dots based on characters in the entire script
Allow filtering by dot. That way the actor playing "Jimmy" can quickly see all his scenes. Filtering should allow for multiple selections as well, so you could see all scenes with Jimmy and Jane, for example.
Ensure that the colours remain consistent for the same character in all scripts for a project. This is particularly important in my episodic format. If Jimmy's dots are blue in ep1, but red in ep2, and green in ep3, Jimmy's actor might get confused. If the dots were tied to the char bios (behind the scenes), maybe with a character properties preference.
Andre