Edit, duplicate, delete

The narrative bank is a living asset: you grow it and prune it over time. This page covers the three operations that evolve your bank.

Edit a narrative

Click a narrative in the list to open its fiche, then Edit at the bottom of the fiche. The editor opens with all the creation fields (see Create a custom narrative) which you can edit.

Restrictions:

• You can freely edit your business narratives and your private narratives.
• You cannot directly edit a default Lumos narrative. To adapt it, duplicate it.

Your edits apply immediately wherever the bank is read: the title shown in a subsection’s pre-shown findings list, in the template builder and in the picker follows the new name, and the next time you add the narrative to a report it uses the updated text.

A narrative already added to a report, however, is a frozen copy: editing it in the bank does not rewrite existing reports, which protects what you have delivered.

Duplicate a narrative

Duplication creates an independent copy of an existing narrative which you can then modify without touching the original. Useful in two cases:

• Adapt a Lumos narrative to your preferred phrasing. The original Lumos narrative stays intact for other users; your copy becomes an editable business narrative.
• Vary an existing narrative for neighboring cases (for example a Foundation stucco missing (poured concrete) narrative duplicated as Foundation stucco missing (blocks or stones)).

Lumos typically adds the (copy) suffix to the duplicated title. Rename it to avoid confusion.

Delete a narrative

The delete button removes a narrative from your bank.

Consequences:

• For your custom narratives (business or private): the narrative disappears from the bank list. Ongoing inspections using it keep a local copy of the text (the inspection does not lose the narrative).
• For a default Lumos narrative: you cannot delete it, only disable or hide it from your views. Lumos preserves the canonical base for other users and for compliance analyses.

Regular maintenance

The bank thickens naturally over time. A periodic review (every 6–12 months) helps keep quality:

• Eliminate duplicates created by forgotten duplications.
• Merge neighboring narratives when you see they describe the same thing.
• Update phrasings to reflect standard evolutions or your style.
• Prune narratives never used to reduce noise in the list.

See also

• Create a custom narrative
• Narrative sources
• Navigating the bank