Extract variation into a study's chapter

[betabandido]

When creating a study, it often happens to me that the study ends up growing more than what I initially expected. I think it would be nice to have a feature that allows one to right-click on a move starting a variation and convert that variation into a new chapter in the study.

If you agree this is an interesting feature to add, I'd be glad to do the PR myself, but I might need some help, as I have never contributed to lichess before, and I am not familiar with the tech stack used.

[benediktwerner]

It's already possible to copy a chapter (new chapter > PGN > copy current chapter) which seems to largely serve the same purpose?

[betabandido]

I did not know about that feature! I'd say this would just make it easier, specially when a chapter contains lots of moves. But, I agree it is not that bad with the feature you mentioned.

[brollin]

If you open up the "edit chapter" modal, on the bottom you will also be able to delete all sidelines. This way you could clean up the new chapter if the old one got a little too busy. If what you are interested in is not the mainline, you can make a variation the mainline by right clicking it in the move tree, and selecting "make mainline".