Clean up unused and duplicate screens

Overview

Storylines accumulate screens that no link points at, and duplicates of the same capture, as they grow. The screens cleanup filter on the storyline page surfaces both so you can select the ones you no longer need and delete them in bulk.

The filter sits in the page header, next to Add screens, and only appears once the storyline has something to clean up.

Filter the screens list

Click the filter icon in the header to open the menu. It offers:

• All screens — the default view, showing every screen in every flow
• Unused (N) — screens that no link, autoplay edge, or guide step reaches
• Duplicates (N) — screens that share the same captured asset as an earlier screen; one copy of each set is kept out of the list

Only one view is active at a time, and the counts on the menu items tell you how many screens each view holds before you open it. Duplicates are a subset of Unused: a duplicate that is still reachable through a link is not listed.

Delete the screens you don't need

With a filter on, only the screens in that view are shown. Select them individually, or use Select all unused / Select all duplicates in the bulk actions panel to select every screen in the current view.

Delete removes the selected screens and refreshes the counts. If the last screen in a view is deleted from inside it, the view closes on its own.

While a filter is on, flows and screens can't be reordered — positions in a filtered list don't map back onto the storyline as a whole. New flows can't be added from the filtered view either; switch to All screens to make structural changes.

Read the screen card indicators

Each screen card carries indicators for what the storyline knows about it:

• Guide steps anchored to this screen, as a count next to the guides icon
• Unlinked — no link, autoplay edge, or guide step points at this screen

These are the same signals the Unused view groups by, so a screen you see flagged as unlinked on the card is one the Unused view will list.

What counts as reached

A screen is treated as reached when:

• It's the storyline's start screen or the first screen of any flow
• A link edit on another screen points at it (including autolinks and dynamic links that resolve to its URL)
• A screens-autoplay edge points at it from the previous screen
• A guide's first step sits on it, or a guide button's Screen action points at it

A storyline whose autoplay is configured to walk every screen reaches all of them, so the Unused view stays empty on those storylines.